Hi John,

I've been working at MySQL for almost 8 years now and like it very much. My current role is doing community relations management, I've been working there as a release engineer before. I wrote a reply to Toni's blog post, maybe it would be useful for you as well?

Thoughts about working in a distributed organization
http://lenzg.net/archives/294-Thoughts-about-work...

Let me know, if you have any questions!