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<p>Hey everybody,</p>
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<p>Thanks for your nice mail. It's been quite an exciting and interesting journey for me as well! It definitely formed my academic identity quite a bit: My commitment to FOSS, the ability to work on complex codebases, the experiences in managing developer and
user communities. I am taking all those into my current and future role at the Scientific Software Center.</p>
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<p>When starting there, I thought that I would work with/on Dune once in a while, but it turns out that this is not true. But that does not mean that I am unhappy - we have a lot of exciting work to do and many nice collaborations, they just not tend to be focussed
around PDEs and Dune so much.</p>
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<p>The decision to step down from my role as Core Developer came from a recent discussion with a colleague (from a completely different context) about scientific credit: The credit for a software framework should always be with the ones that currently sustain
it. That does not only mean to give credit to newly onboarded developers, but also that de facto retired ones need to stop taking credit (implicitly or explicitly). After that discussion, I realized that I am violating these very principles myself regarding
Dune. So, please take my stepping down as a sign of respect and try onboarding new people as core developers instead.</p>
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<p>Best,</p>
<p>Dominic</p>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Bastian, Prof. Dr. Peter<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 30, 2026 11:19:59 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kempf, Dr. Dominic<br>
<b>Cc:</b> dune-devel@lists.dune-project.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Thanks to Dominic</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Dear Dominic,<br>
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we all here at the Dune Developer Meeting just realized that you stepped <br>
down as a Dune developer. Of course we understand that you have other <br>
duties now and we would like to take the opportunity to thank you for <br>
all the important contributions that you have made to Dune! Thank you so <br>
much!<br>
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Best regards from all the developers here in Dresden!<br>
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