RIP

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:20 PM, G.T.RAO <[email protected]> wrote:

> foss Activist passed away
> Kenneth Gonsalves (KG / lawgon) passed away on 3rd Aug 2012. He was
> leading light, mentor, evangelist and practitioner of Free and Open Source
> Software. He was a geek up to his last moments. His demise is a great loss
> to FOSS Community in India. A short bio of Kenneth Gonsalves (Prepared by
> KG only)" Although he has no formal training in the IT field, Kenneth
> Gonsalves has been programming since 1986, starting with Turbo Pascal, then
> moving to Perl and finally to Python in 2003. Since then he has focused on
> Python in general and the Django web frame work in particular. He is an
> open source enthusiast and has spoken and written on open source right from
> 1995 when he was first introduced to it. He has conducted over 50 seminars
> and workshops in python and Django. He was the founder president of the
> Indian Python Software Society and a member of the team that has organised
> the highly successful Indian python conferences from 2009 to 2011. He is
> now based in Ooty where he writes and consults on open source. He also
> conducts a job oriented course in python and django. His other main
> interest is golf and he holds an international certification as a golf
> referee and has refereed several national level golf tournaments. He writes
> a regular column called 'Foss is fun' for the LFY monthly. Most of his code
> contributions are here: http://bitbucket.org/lawgon/"; He was a good
> mentor and friend to many of us. Some of his contributions, writing and
> rambling can be found [1]http://lawgon.livejournal.com/ [2]
> http://bitbucket.org/lawgon/ [3]http://search.cpan.org/~lawgon/ [4]
> http://www.linuxforu.com/author/kenneth-gonsalves/ [5]
> https://people.djangoproject.com/lawgon/ [6]
> http://in.linkedin.com/pub/kenneth-gonsalves/4/565/10b Let is soul rest
> in peace.
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