I would like to take the opportunity to give a personal thank you to
Jon for his commitment and the massive levels of hard work he has been
putting in over the last 6 months to speedily establish the UK office,
ensure our governance and processes are kicked into order and his own
rapid progress in understanding our needs and culture. We do notice,
and we all know how complex our community is to understand, how
uncompromisingly demanding our brightest community leaders are, and
how contradictory and passionate our views can be too. ;-)
I'd just like to second this, and to add my thanks to Jon for his very
hard work and enormous professionalism over the last six months.
In a past life, I have had my own experience of being a staff member
responsible to a group of volunteers, and it isn't always easy. Our
situation, where we are not only building our first ever staff team but in
many ways breaking completely new ground in everything we do, is a huge
challenge, and Jon has dealt with it very well. I am very grateful for
everything he's done, and am really looking forward to working with him
(with whatever hats I still have after the Board election) in months and
years to come.
Chris