Alexander Limi - one of the Plone CMS founders - has been approached with an offer to join Google as a User Interface Designer, and has accepted the offer.  According to the project’s website, Limi will continue to contribute to Plone and plans to have significant leadership in the upcoming UI-focused 3.0 release. Limi will also remain on the executive  board of the Plone Foundation, which manages the project. 

In the announcement he stated that the reasons for accepting Google’s offer included his desire “to learn from the masters of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) UI design,” as well as a need to step back from Plone for a while, in order to see new thinking……More At…..