Silently saying good bye... Rest in peace. Shy On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Ken Grunke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > -- > --------------------- > *Terry Ford* > DigiWorldz Grid > http://digiworldz.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing > [email protected]http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > >
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