Not an April fool’s joke

Today marks the beginning of my second month working for Rackspace.

I’ve realised I haven’t actually blogged about my leaving Canonical, so this post doubles as an announcement about that, I suppose.

A lot of thought was put into that decision. Ubuntu is an awesome project to work on and Canonical was a fun and interesting “place” to work, but “all good things must come to an end” so I decided to “quit while I was ahead”. Come up with more clichées if you feel like it. The short story is that I just wasn’t having much fun anymore.

Rackspace came along as an interesting option. I’ve known about them since forever, and they are doing very interesting stuff in the cloud computing area, so it seemed like a natural progression. I had a few interviews and after we overcame some initial difficulties (they’re not that used to having people from Denmark work for them) I started my new job working on Cloud Sites on March 1st.

This does not mean that I’m going to stop working on Ubuntu, though. It’ll just be on my own time and working on a narrower set of things than I have for a while. I also hope to be at UDS (I’ve applied for sponsorship) so that I can meet all my awesome, old colleagues.