Those past few months have been very busy as you can see from my lack of blogging since January. Three months ago I gave my notice to leave my job as an Acquia technical consultant (3 months is the usual amount of time for people with my kind of job in france). It was not easy to decide, Acquia’s professional services team is incredible and I’ll miss working with them (the team chat room is especially enjoyable :)
I needed a break from the crazy pace and unpredictable schedule, which are perks until you want to have a life. Over the past two years I’ve travelled to 40 cities in 19 countries. That took 263 000km — mostly plane — and a bit more than 300 days on the road. And during those trips I’ve learned things about Drupal and management (or lack thereof) that can’t be unlearned. For a taste you can read The things we found in your site and part 2, it only talk about politically correct stuff though :)
Now that it’s over, it’s time for some light vacationing. I’m in Japan pretty much until DrupalCon Amsterdam, if you’re around Tokyo let me know. The plan is to relax and enjoy not having to work all the time. After a few weeks of that I’ll be getting back to working on JS issues that are outstanding, more on that in a follow-up post. After DrupalCon I’ll be working hard on PillowTime my pet project which is an online sleep log aimed at people with sleep disorders, like me. The too much sleeping kind for now, not the can’t get to sleep kind yet.
Getting back to core work is fine and dandy but the problem of core funding comes up once again. Fortunately before I left my old team and I worked out an agreement that I’ll be working with them on specific types of work. It helps them clear their backlog and it helps me not having to hunt for clients, so that I can spend more time contributing. The end result is that I’ll be able to sustain my work on core and I don’t need to look for work to make that possible.