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> In 2016 I resigned from the Foundation en masse.

"En masse":

All together and at the same time, in large numbers

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/en-masse

Apologies if the meaning was unclear, but what it's meant to convey that I resigned ALL of my dozen-or-so positions from the org simultaneously.

For what is worth I understood your meaning immediately by applying the "most generous interpretation" principle.

Might I suggest phrasing it exactly like that then? “I resigned all 12 positions I held at Apache because X” is a lot clearer to me.

or even further, naming some of the relevant positions (for example HTTP Server project management committee)

How peevish can you guys be?

1/ because I don’t remember exactly how many, 2/ because the record keeping at Apache was so haphazard at the time, half of the places I resigned from left me on the roster anyway (like the HTTPd server project itself).

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