After 7 years living outside of my home country, I decided to live back there… At least for a few years 
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I’ve been living for about 4 years in Tokyo to do my Ph. D. After that, I moved to the Silicon Valley to join Flock, at the time a tiny startup operating from a garage in Palo Alto.
Termie, Rockstar Programmer at the Original Flock HQ (by foolswisdom)
Today it’s time for me to say goodbye to my friends at Flock, but I will never forget the 3 years spent working on the web browser. I’ve seen the company at various stages, growing from the days of the garage with the founders to a bigger team, split between two offices with a professional CEO.
I’ve also had the chance to enjoy Northern California: the blue sky, the geek-friendly environment, the numerous tech-related events, the Japanese supermarkets, the burritos… More importantly, I’ve met with some really smart engineers from whom I’ve learned a lot, and it has been a real pleasure to work with them. I’m convinced that I’ll stay in touch with these friends even living 9,000 km and 9 time zones away from the Valley. (And that’s true for non-engineers too )
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So as I said, I am moving to France and while I have great memories with Flock, it is also time for me to look forward. The good news is that I found a very exciting project to join, and I will start in that new company as soon as I land in Paris early next year. It’s called Yoono, and the eponymous product is a browser extension with some similarities with Flock’s own features. It’s a great opportunity for me to keep one foot in the Mozilla community (the extension runs on Firefox) while still exploring new things such as extensibility on other browsers (Yoono runs on IE too) and server-side work (Yoono is coupled to a web service).
If you were following what I was doing at Flock, you probably want to check out Yoono. It’s really one of the most advanced browser extension out there.
Dr. Wan,
It was a pleasure working with you at Flock. I wish you the best of luck in France and I hope we stay in touch.
Mike
Have a safe trip home, Erwan! I wish you all the best!
-Sophie
Bon retour alors (Paris ?) ! Et par la même occasion, bonnes fêtes de fin d’année !
Hey! It was a goold old times when we’ve been in this garage…
It was great pleasure to work with you. Hope you’ll find an hour for a coffee once I’m in SF and maybe for a beer in Paris or… FOSDEM?
Wow! Congrats on the move back and thanks for sending a shout out to Yoono!
Je suis ravi d’avoir été en contact avec toi lorsque j’étais encore volontaire pour Flock.
Bon courage chez Yoono et bonnes fêtes de fin d’année !
En espérant un jour se croiser
@all: Thank you for your kind words!
@ghismo: Oui, ce sera Paris.
@gandalf: Definitely, let’s get a coffee in SF and a beer in Paris
@Frenetik: En effet, on aura peut-être l’occasion de se croiser en vrai finalement!
Your unique career will do all good for you, I’m sure. Good luck in France, Erwan!
Congratulations! I’m so happy to hear you found a place that leverages your existing skills and let’s you expand on the server and client side.
I hope you don’t have to spend too much time in c++ ;p
Happy holidays
It has been a pleasure, Erwan. Glad you’ve got a new and exciting project lined up. Your contributions at Flock will be missed. Salut!
That is great to see you heading back to France. Let me know where you are at, as I am right now living in Paris. Wish you the best for this new adventure!