Well, you folks knew him best. So, whatever you guys feel is appropriate. I was just trying to come up with a way to somewhat permanently let the Wicket community recognize his contributions to the project.
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I remember correctly, Maurice was quite satisfied that he came up > with Swarm and Wasp - I think that took longer than writing the actual > code :) > > That said, his nick was mrmean, which sounds like a great name for a > security package. > > Martijn > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:48 PM, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. >>> >> > > > > -- > Become a Wicket expert, learn from the best: http://wicketinaction.com > Apache Wicket 1.3.4 is released > Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3. >
