10 November 2009, 18:33

I wish to add my voice to the thanks as well  Nigel. Your friendly and tireless manner has greatly contributed to building the community that is Mahara. Running your own online business is a tough gig, but it is also exciting. Please share some Mahara 'Views' with us that profile your business. I would love to share them on Foliospaces as well.

 All the best,

 Ian Knox

http://www.foliospaces.com

12 November 2009, 5:20

Hi Nigel,

 All the best in your new career - I hope it works out well. I'm sure it will.

Thanks for all your work.

 Yours

James

19 November 2009, 19:25

Good luck Nigel.

Miss you all.

Keep us informed about your projects.

Mahara without Nigel will be like the spaghetti without tomato.

Dear greetings from Italy.

I am, however, confident that the project Mahara will be followed equally well by other group members.

09 November 2009, 9:08

09 November 2009, 10:36

I adhere from what others have said and wish you all the bestin your new venture.

The CV&A Consulting team

09 November 2009, 15:37

Good luck with your new project, Nigel!

We will miss you a lot!! Thank you very much for your help and your hard work.

There is a traditional gaelic blessing that we also use in Scotland:

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

All the best for the future!

And welcome to Francois, Piers and Dan

09 November 2009, 17:11

I am sorry to hear that! I really admire your work with Mahara and I hope you will have the same sucess in your new endeavors.

Good luck!

09 November 2009, 17:40

My best wishes for your new project.
You do such good work as you've done here.

Good luck

Buena suerte

09 November 2009, 18:52

Nigel, you are born to do something different......

Good luck and all wishes.....

09 November 2009, 19:14

Wow guys, thanks so much for all your messages! 

I'll be sure to keep in touch. I don't see me quitting #mahara on freenode for example - after all, I'm still in #geshi (my previous open source project) after all these years - so I'll always be around there at least.

And Mahara will continue on strong with you guys around. Richard, Francois and company know about open source and the community, so things should keep trucking along just fine .

I'll be posting about my startup venture on my blog from time to time, so if anyone is interested in hearing about it, feel free to subscribe to the feed.