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It would be sad if Europeans felt that they had to move to the USA in order to interact properly with their teams. I presume you have tried encouraging your team to use asynchronous methods of communication more often?

Gerv

Gerv, the situation is not that straight-forward for me:
I'm not in a team in terms of my actual role. What I'm doing is heavily cross-functional and I have to take part in a lot of meetings, in most of which it's all or almost all other participants being in the US. I have no free evening left due to that, and a heavily screwed-up day cycle. Async communication works only for a part of my role, and the data I need to work with is not available before the European afternoon in any case.
That said, as I mentioned, I fell in love with a lot of different aspects of the US - even if I could work on a normal schedule here, I'd probably look for options to move across the Atlantic, at least for some time.

Last edited by KaiRo at 2013-04-04 13:10

Maybe the UK would be a shorter distance with a better timezone to do the work in?

John, the UK isn't the land of Country Music or (American) Football, and an hour doesn't move 8pm meetings out of the evening or an 11pm one out of the night, so I'd not be able to go to evening meetings or otherwise get a much better day cycle. That said, as a temporary measure and a stepping stone on the way to the US, I'd take it, and that hour would be a slight relief - just not a long-term solution.

Hi. I guess that my subject line summarizes my question. I'm happy for your new opportunity and I wish you the best working for Mozilla. However, I'm a loyal Seamonkey user and I'm wondering if development of the suite will continue with this change.

There is no change for SeaMonkey, I have been moving away from the project more than 2 years ago. For anything else about it, you need to ask the current team.