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Ch-ch-ch-changes

As I walked down Shepherd's Bush Road to Hammersmith the other day, my feet went swish-swish-swish through the piles of fallen leaves. The seasons are changing once again, and as this summer fades to autumn, my life is also changing.

Previously, I mentioned a move to London as the first of many changes taking place. There have been a number of other big changes, which for one reason or another I haven't had time to write about.

One of the biggest changes was that I stepped back from Sourcesense, and since March I'm no longer a director or an employee. After 8 years building up and working in Open Source systems integrators, the time was right for a change in direction. It's all good, though: having spent some time recently working alongside some Sourcesense competitors, I'm happy to confirm that Sourcesense are some of the best in the industry, providing not just open source support and integration but also professional, agile, smart people with a proven ability to instigate positive change.

So where have I been these last few months? In London, working on-site with a customer as an independent consultant. I've been helping them with their roll-out of some key new open source search solutions as part of stabilising their platform for growth. I was working with some great people there, on some interesting and challenging problems, and was all set to continue there, but ...

Meanwhile, another opportunity came up that was too interesting to miss. And so, as of Thursday, I became Open Source Manager for the LiMo Foundation. My mission is to help them with their engagement with Open Source, and I'm sure I'll have much more to say on both the role and on mobile Open Source in general in the future.

So swish-swish-swish, the world keeps moving and changing, and so does my place within it.

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