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. > > > > > > -- > > > > > G.T.Rao > http://fossyatra.wordpress.com > http://paper.li/GTRao/1342070958 > email:[email protected] > mobile:91-7737031761 > > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > -- Regards ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º>¸. ·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º> Mr. Sagar Kshetri (ASK?) Url: www.sagarkshetri.com.np -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
