I mentioned something on #wicket about perhaps renaming wicket-security to be called simply "Maurice" or "Marrink." Thoughts?
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is with great sadness that we must report the staggering loss of our > good friend and colleague, Maurice Marrink. Maurice died in a car crash > last friday. > > Maurice was a dear co-worker, project member and good friend. He was > always enthusiastic, willing to lend a hand and above all friendly. > Coming from the northern parts of the Netherlands, Maurice could be > quite stubborn at times–a trait that is invaluable working as a software > engineer, especially when working in a group of strong minded people. > > Maurice was a great asset to the Wicket community since Wicket became > open source. The Wicket team was fortunate to have Maurice on board > since last March. He was committed to the continued success of Wicket > and the Apache community as a whole. > > Maurice has guided students that created the initial Wicket Dojo > integration (Wicket 1.1 timeframe, before Wicket Ajax). He put a lot of > effort into creating two security frameworks for Wicket, with the latest > and greatest open sourced: the Wicket Security framework (aka > Swarm/Wasp). He had many good ideas on the future of Wicket and > integrating his projects into our core distribution. > > Within Topicus he was one of the pillars of our company–professionally, > and even more important: culturally. He was always organizing and > attending social events, nerd nights, cart challenges and board gaming > evenings. Just two weeks ago he was our hero when he arranged tickets > for a pre-screening of Batman: The dark knight at our local IMax > theatre. > > Maurice, we miss you. All our thoughts and good wishes are with you and > your loved ones. May your soul find peace. > > - the Wicket crew. >
