I don’t know what to say about Cindy. She was such a warm welcoming person and I always enjoyed working with her. She made capes! When we had a Flickr team outing to go curling, she made capes for our team. It was great in the blue and pink Flickr colors. She was a rad person, and I am happy to have been able to say I met her.

Visiting Cindy at work: Flickr dots!

Dear Cindy, I want to thank you for the good times we shared in the Flickr offices and outside of them. Your expertise in UX design has always been very inspirational for me when we worked together, and I still remember the day when we had that little talk about Veerle from the Netherlands and about how much I enjoy her blog, to which you just responded that you are actually friends.

Hi Cindy Li, sweet as can be. I’m very sad to hear about your cancer. I just wanted to let you know I’m thinking about you and that I’ve often thought about you over the years. I still remember when we first met and someone showed me photos of one of the costumes you made (I think the Tron one) and I was like, “She MADE that!?” and then you just kept making other amaze stuff and being great at work and being the kind of sweet and wonderful person you are.

Hi Cindy! This is Manny! I heard that you and your family are going through a trying time right now and I want you to know that I’m wishing the best thoughts that I can muster all the way from the west coast. You have always been a cheerful shining positive ray of light when we worked together back in the Flickr days and I always appreciated that. Thinking of you.

Cindy is such a great woman. I’ve loved watching her photos from afar on Facebook of all the cakes and dressing up and parties. She’s s force of nature and was since the first day she started at Flickr. I’m honored to know her and just wish that things weren’t working out this way. Sending so much love her way and to the whole family. Cathryn

Cindy, I have been hoping to share this with you for a long time. It’s hard to know exactly how to thank somebody for this sort of thing. When I met you at Flickr, you confronted me about the culture of dirty jokes and frat boy pranks I was a part of encouraging on the team. For a variety of reasons, I could not appreciate the courage and wisdom it took to confront me about that.

Met Cindy back when I joined Flickr about 8 years ago. One of our first projects together was to revamp the Flickr app. I would say this picture was a pivotal one. A memorable moment with Cindy back at Flickr.

I remember how I met Cindy! I haven’t known her as long as most of you. Joshua had worked with her at Flickr and was currently working with Matt at Twitter, and we were living in Berkeley while I was on sabbatical. I had given birth like a month before Cindy did, and I was standing awkwardly in a queue waiting to get in to Twitter for their Halloween party with a stroller full of a 3 month old baby.

Since other people have shared how they met Cindy… I’ll share that… I really don’t know how I met Cindy, and I sort of love that. We both worked at Yahoo SF, but in different teams and on different floors. Still, I somehow felt both drawn and welcome to hang out with her. I can’t remember when we first met, but I do remember sneaking down to the 6th floor for the treats she used to save for me when we had ‘Treat Tuesday’, which somehow was only served to half the office.