Here is something from Latif's youtube page, the only video showing
"meatspace", showing him as living in Denmark:
https://youtu.be/Wcd9_4zgshk
On 03/05/2016 10:42 AM, Terry Ford wrote:
Very sad indeed.
I did not know Latif, and was saddened by this news.
I did a quick search and found a page
(http://slviewerdramaz.tumblr.com/page/2) which seems to indicate
Latif is actually Edin Kadribašić.
https://plus.google.com/+EdinKadribasic/posts
http://www.edin.dk/p/about-me.html
https://www.facebook.com/edin.kadribasic
This seems to indicate he was also involved in the PHP project as well
as several other things.
Not completely sure on this, maybe someone else knows better than I?
I and the rest of the OpenSim community will always owe a debt of
gratitude for his contributions.
I wish his family peace and my thoughts are with them.
~Terry
On 3/5/2016 10:00 AM, Diva Canto wrote:
It is with great sadness that I inform you that one of the oldest and
most respected members of this community, Latif Kalifa, has passed
away, after a long battle with a serious health condition that landed
him in the hospital many times over the past few years.
Latif's contributions to the open source SL ecosystem were vast and
varied. He was one of the original contributors, and the main
maintainer, of libOMV, a library that embodies the LL protocol and
data structures. LibOMV lies at the heart of OpenSimulator, as well
as many SL/OpenSim bots developed by lots of people. Latif also
developed Radegast, an alternative viewer used by many, especially
people with disabilities. He also contributed to the Singularity
viewer and its offshoot, Replex. He participated in the SL
Architecture Working Group, and in many technical discussions in the
OpenSim-dev IRC chat channel. He was a vocal advocate of free open
source software.
We don't necessarily know who Latif was in real life, what he did for
a living, or who is family and loved ones are. That's one of the
consequences of being part of world-wide online communities, where we
interact only with virtual representations of real people, often
using pseudonyms. But it was clear to everyone who interacted with
him that his spirit was strong and that his heart, wherever in the
world he lived, was in the right place. Open source software exists
because of people like him.
His code will outlive him.
He will be missed.
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