I never had to chance to meet Marco but I can say that I only have heard wonderful things about him, as a human being and as an engineer. My most sincere condolences to his family and friends.
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Christoph Derndorfer < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 1. It is with great sadness that write these words: Marco Presenti >> Gritti, the principal Sugar developer from Red Hat from 2006 to 2008 and >> one of the founders of Sugar Labs, passed away this past weekend after a >> long illness. Marco was a brilliant engineer whose work still reverberates >> throughout the Sugar stack and a warm, personable colleague, father, and >> husband. We will miss you Marco. >> > > Thank you for sharing this sad news which I - and I assume many others > here - would have missed otherwise. > > Reading it made me go back through my e-mail and photo archives and I > found this shot from FUDCon Brno in September 2008: > > [image: Inline image 1] > > I'll always remember mpg like that: A brilliant and cheerful software > engineer amidst like-minded and equally friendly and dedicated software > geniuses who built the foundations of Sugar. > > And +1 to Gonzalo's suggestions of dedicating 0.106 to Marco and his young > family! > > If anyone has his physical address please let me know as I'd love send my > condolences to his two Danielas in this time of sadness and mourning. > > Christoph > > > >> == Sugar Digest == >> >> 2. For those of you who are interested, we hold our GSoC group meetings >> on Fridays, 11:00 EST (Boston), 14:00 UTC on irc.freenode.net >> #sugar-meeting. >> >> === Tech Talk === >> >> 3. Peter Robinson, Sam Parkinson, Sean Daly, and Iain Brown Douglas have >> done a great job of revamping the Sugar on a Stick spin site for Fedora. >> Please see [1]. >> >> === Sugar Labs === >> >> 4. Please visit our planet [2]. >> >> --- >> >> [1] http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/ >> [2] http://planet.sugarlabs.org >> >> -walter >> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Community-news mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/community-news >> > > > > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > > volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] > editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] > co-founder, TechnikBasteln® [www.technikbasteln.net] > > e-mail: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Community-news mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/community-news >
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