Sorry for the top post. This is a shocking news indeed. Although, I am not active these days on Debian, but I still remember my interactions with Frans on IRC while testing D-I.
A great loss. My heartfelt condolences. May his soul rest in peace. - Nishant On 8/31/10, Christian PERRIER <[email protected]> wrote: > Most of you may read Debian News, but some probably don't. In any > case, I felt the need to foward these very sad news to i18n > contributors. > > Please find a more personal comment of mine at the end of this mail. > > ----- Forwarded message from Debian Project <[email protected]> ----- > > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:46:16 +0200 > From: Debian Project <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop > X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/466 > X-CRM114-Status: UNSURE (5.9308) This message is 'unsure'; please train it! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ > Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop [email protected] > August 31st, 2010 http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100831 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop > > The Debian Project has lost a member of its community. Frans Pop (fjp) > died on August 20th. > > Frans was involved in Debian as a maintainer of several packages, a > supporter of the S/390 port, and one of the most involved members of > the Debian Installer team. He was a Debian Listmaster, editor and > release manager of the Installation Guide and the release notes, as > well as a Dutch translator. > > The Debian Project honours his good work and strong dedication to > Debian and Free Software. Frans' broad technical knowledge and his > ability to share that knowledge with others will be missed. The > contributions of Frans will not be forgotten, and the high standards of > his work will continue to serve as an inspiration to others. > > > About Debian > ------------ > > The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who > volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free > operating systems Debian GNU/Linux. > > > Contact Information > ------------------- > > For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at > http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <[email protected]>.</p> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > Personal comment by myself: > > The news about Frans' death was a shock to me when I received it on > Sunday Aug 22nd. > > The i18n/l10n community of Debian lost one of its most active > contributors. Frans' first contributions to Debian were indeed in the > field of documentation and localization (in Dutch, his native > language). > > Frans lead the Debian Installer management for two years and has a > great part in the success of the Debian Installer releases and, as a > consequence, in the success of Debian releases. > > Until the very end of his life, he was committed to work on Dutch > localization of D-I, to prepare releases of the Debian Installation > Guide (which included coordination the translation work for it) and so > many contributions that make it hard to list. > > Frans was very well known and respected for the very high quality > standard he was applying in all his work for Debian, which helped a > lot of ourselves to raise our own quality standards. > > I am very proud for having been a very close Debian colleague of Frans > all over 6 years of mutual contributions in Debian (the first message > Frans sent to the debian-boot mailing list was on March 1st > 2004). While it's hard to define who is a friend and who is not in a > virtual community like ours, I think that we both shared enough good > and bad moments for being as close as people can be in a large project > like Debian. > > The Debian Project was represented at Frans' funeral ceremony and > several Debian developers could show Frans' family how shocked we > were, expressed the respect that the project members had for him and > could share their grief and pain. > > I know that many of you share these feelings. > > Rest In Peace, my friend. You will be missed. > > -- > > > -- Sent from my mobile device How about some patent on "(a+b)2 = a2+2ab+b2". Choose free software! http://www.nishants.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
