I remember John arriving at his first Plug meeting many years ago. I was a bit early for the meeting and he wandered in early also and we started chatting. We manned the Plug booth at Oscon together for a while also. He was always asking for help on the Plug List because he was always wandering off into unexplored territories of configurations of hardware and software. He was not keen on doing things in the conventional way. I will miss him.
Bill Barry On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 3:28 PM Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > > Indeed. Always enjoyed chatting with him during OSCON. - Robert > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 1:51 PM Maher, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is indeed sad news. Always interesting and helpful at all the plug > > clinics I attended. I'll miss him. > > > > Regards, > > Jeff Maher > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 3:02 AM Russell Senior <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > This sad news was sent to me by Keith Lofstrom: > > > > > > > John Jordan's brother emailed me on Feb 26 with the sad news that > > > John died of natural causes on January 14. > > > > > > > > More details to individuals via private email. I don't want to > > > discuss them on an archived public email list, too many vultures out > > there. > > > > > > > > Forgive the tardy information - I've been in Maryland on an urgent > > > family matter, and somehow got locked out of both ssh access and gmail, > > > with no time to debug and fix. When I learn more about THAT, I'll post > > > germane info and lessons learned to the PLUG list. > > > > > > > > For now, I'm [email protected], but I hope to get > > > [email protected] debugged soon. > > > > > > > > Keith L. > > > > > > John was a valued member of the PLUG community, joining in approximately > > > April 2005. This is his earliest message to the PLUG list as far as I've > > > been able to find: > > > https://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2005-April/040270.html. He was > > > an important contributor to the PLUG Clinic and of course the local > > > community resource for questions about linguistics. I helped him set up > > > his network at some point and occasionally gave him rides home from PLUG > > > meetings. I know that I'll miss his cheery disposition. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Russell Senior > > > PLUG Volunteer > > > [email protected] > > > > >
