My farewell to Qubes OS!

[Joanna Rutkowska]

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Hello Qubes devs and users!

It's been nearly 9 years[*] since I sent the first internal email
within ITL to Rafał Wojtczuk and Alex Tereshkin with the original idea
for making Qubes OS. Shortly after this, we started drafting the
original architecture and writing some early PoC code...

Today, I've made an announcement I'm switching focus to another area
of work and joining the Golem Project as a Chief {Strategy, Security}
Officer:

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/10/25/the-next-chapter/

https://blog.golemproject.net/joanna-rutkowska-joins-golem-as-chief-strategy-security-officer-13f12f0c11c0

I'd like to thank all the people who made Qubes OS possible, which
includes: the whole ITL team, all the community contributors, and, of
course, all the Qubes OS users!

Qubes OS will continue under the lead of Marek Marczykowski-Górecki,
who have been a de-facto lead for all the day-to-day development for
quite some time already!

Thanks, Marek! Thank you, all!

Cheers,
joanna.

[*] FWIW, the exact date was November 11th, 2009.
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[Holger Levsen]

Dear Joanna,

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 12:21:44PM +0200, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:
> It's been nearly 9 years[*] since I sent the first internal email
> within ITL to Rafał Wojtczuk and Alex Tereshkin with the original idea
> for making Qubes OS. Shortly after this, we started drafting the
> original architecture and writing some early PoC code...

Thank you very much for all your work on Qubes, it's an amazing project you've
created and worked on for so long! I'm also very glad you plan to stay around
as an advisor and user! :)

I wish you lots of fun and interesting work at the Golem Project! Can't wait to
see Qubes Air take off ;)


--
cheers,
Holger

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[unman]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 12:21:44PM +0200, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:

> Hello Qubes devs and users!
>
> It's been nearly 9 years[*] since I sent the first internal email
> within ITL to Rafał Wojtczuk and Alex Tereshkin with the original idea
> for making Qubes OS. Shortly after this, we started drafting the
> original architecture and writing some early PoC code...
>
> Today, I've made an announcement I'm switching focus to another area
> of work and joining the Golem Project as a Chief {Strategy, Security}
> Officer:
>
> https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/10/25/the-next-chapter/
>
> https://blog.golemproject.net/joanna-rutkowska-joins-golem-as-chief-strategy-security-officer-13f12f0c11c0
>
> I'd like to thank all the people who made Qubes OS possible, which
> includes: the whole ITL team, all the community contributors, and, of
> course, all the Qubes OS users!
>
> Qubes OS will continue under the lead of Marek Marczykowski-Górecki,
> who have been a de-facto lead for all the day-to-day development for
> quite some time already!
>
> Thanks, Marek! Thank you, all!
>
> Cheers,
> joanna.
>
> [*] FWIW, the exact date was November 11th, 2009.

Joanna

Sorry to see you go.
Thanks for all the work you have put in to make Qubes what it is today.
I'm glad to see that you'll still be using Qubes (and contributing, I'm sure.)
I am sure that Qubes will go on as succesful project and get wider
reach under Marek's lead.

Best of luck in Golem.

unman

[Raffaele Florio]

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Joanna,
Thanks, thanks and thanks again for all your work! I wish you all the best.


Cheers,
Raffaele.
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[Joe]

On 10/25/2018 12:21 PM, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:
> Today, I've made an announcement I'm switching focus to another area
> of work and joining the Golem Project as a Chief {Strategy, Security}
> Officer:
>

Hi Joanna,
Thanks for all your hard work over the years, and good luck with your
next project!

Joe

[pixel fairy]

Saw this and thought it was april 1st!

Thanks for creating this project! you changed the face of endpoint security