Yes maybe bad wording as if could have been taken as off on holidays for this month
So I gather it should have been read by me as leaving after this month
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Sorry, @neo Fraser has resigned, I should have been clear. He will be around and possibly at the next devcon. He has a chance at a new thing just now though and has chosen to make the change. So he has resigned from maidsafe but not from the community and the project. Like the other guys, he still wants us to succeed.
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Always sad to hear people leave and @anon86652309 was such a nice guy and well nature and has been around for so long, like a part of the foundation of the project itself. See ya @anon86652309 and hope all goes well with you in your new venture
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All good, I just struggle to understand why, Nick, Pierre, Fraser, Viv, and others would decide to resign if they are so close to making it to the history books with Maidsafe. Maybe we dont know the whole story. PS. is there any more news regarding staff leaving? Adam- madadam is not active in github for 2 weeks, also one of the core devs, also Bart is not active 1 week -I just hope there is no bad news regarding them also.
None of us do and I suppose it is personal to them. We do HR exit interviews but I have not sought to find out exactly why they left as I am way to busy and think it is personal.
Good grief man, he has a new child and wanted to actually go on holiday. Even that is way way too much personal info dude.
During the holiday season he went and took a holiday, I think some other staff members might actually do that as well. Really @anon94252342 with all your time on github, do a PR to help and not try and work out who is working. You know most of the routing team had almost zero commits for a year or so while they were working on consensus.
Since taking over as CTO as I had to, we implemented the project and planning etc. I have been very clear I wanted commitment and dedication but in return would provide direction, focus and motivation. That way we launch or at least do the best we can. So get the team happy and positive, that works. Focus on the dark side will turn you man.
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I just want answers, really happy that all is good and other devs are staying, and they take some time off, and will get back fresh to finish all the pieces left.
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I want a holiday and launch, but have done for 13 years, so maybe one day we will both get what we want.
Your approach man is like meeting an instead of “hello”, you say “I hope you don’t have a terminal illness” .
It is not the question that matters so much as the context and delivery chap. You are completely negative in your delivery and I am trying to work with a motivated happy team. I hope you understand but you will create the monster you hope does not live under the bed.
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Just think of the savings in salaries. No need to worry so much about funding to launch
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Sometimes maidsafe guys are too indulgent of repeated negative questioning from @anon94252342
Can’t be imagine how draining that must be. Please @anon94252342 - how would you feel if your work performance was being continually judged and questioned by an outsider…
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Some of the community members are investors, which made this project development possible in the first place. Its fair to ask about the timelines, staff, holidays etc. Some might care more than others, some might show their impatience more than others, some might ask more than others, and sometimes unconfy questions. it doesnt mean that thet dont care or want to harm the development. We all believe in this project, in the people behind it. We all want it to be as transparent as possible, last couple of months we saw many people leaving, investors do notice this and it is worrying. No one outside the organisation know if there is some second bottom for all those changes, its always better to ask, you wont get lost as long as you ask…
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How about you do it like someone who has been taught normal manners. I do not care how that sounds to you, but the way you ask questions does not engender any desire to answer you.
Others have asked the same questions as you do and they do not upset anyone in doing so and do not act like an entitled overlord.
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Hey @anon94252342 do you know what’s better than the best cow ever for the bull? A new cow… 
So we all have the same mechanism by which dopamine is released. The old is boring, the new is exciting.
I would argue that all the people leaving now have stayed so long precisely because the project is so important. And now they leave because they are sure the project will be completed without them. And people need a new cow even if they had the best cow in the world…
So @anon86652309 enjoy your new cow!!! You deserve it 
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And all of the staff are now shareholders/investors. There is no shareholder/investor more important that any other and none have dominion over the other. You should not expect to be told staff holidays or when they are sick etc. it is way too much. We all have motivation to succeed. Many of us though go beyond that by a long way.
We would normally have announced Fraser leaving in the update (likely next weeks), but in any case the drive is launch.
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My concern is more about the challenges of finding new team members of similar calibre and even then the time it takes to get fully familiar with the network
Anyhow this thread is now getting severely derailed.
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Maybe it is a good time to push the Github Sponsor program more aggressively mentioned 1 month ago:
I don’t want to be harsh but the amount of work left before the network first release candidate is huge in terms of time/dev working hours remanining. It would be a win/win for Maidsafe to access this worldwide developers workforce market in order to avoid this kind of inconveniences about devs going in/out the project. We need to remember the development of this project it should never stop in order to upgrade capabilities, fix bugs, etc.
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Agreed, perhaps this convo should be moved off to leave the OP points and answers to be not confused.
100% this is always difficult, we are pushing so quickly right now though any new hire would potentially slow us down. We are looking though. I feel the whole network running will make onboarding so much simpler.
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After next week we need to get @Cgray and @ustulation to get back onto this as well. It could be very valuable
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@pierrechevalier83
This is an inexcusable bump and digression on top, but Pierre, who’s responsible for the Twitter redesign? Choke them, choke them, choke them, and come back, find artistic similarities with everyone, and welcome back.
And if it’s you… Same modus operandi, but without coming back 
Thank you all for your wonderful work with Parsec.
I remember you announced before that an updated version of the Parsec paper is coming out, do you have any update about when it will be?
I posted a non-binary to binary translation question here Parsec/ABA: How do you map ORDERING to binary agreement instances (or other nonbinary value)? . Thanks, Guy
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Hi @dirvine @pierrechevalier83 @bart & everyone, any update about when the next revision f the Parsec paper will be published? (I understood it’s undergoing peer review since couple months.) Thanks!!