Our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends. Peace to all. <3 Em qui, 21 de mar de 2019 às 20:21, "Christoph Schäfer" < [email protected]> escreveu:
> The Scribus Team is deeply saddened to announce the loss of our friend and > colleague Peter Linnell who in the end lost his long battle against cancer. > > > It is no understatement to say that without Peter Scribus wouldn't be what > it is today. It was Peter who spotted the potential of Franz Schmid's > initially humble Python program and, as a pre-press consultant at the time, > contacted Franz to make him aware of the necessities of PostScript and PDF > support, among other things. Peter also wrote the first version of the > Scribus online documentation, which resulted in his nickname "mrdocs" in > IRC and elsewhere. Until recently, and despite his detoriating health, > Peter continued to be involved in building and releasing new Scribus > versions. > > > Scribus was the project he helped to set on track and which marked the > beginning of his journey into the world of Free Software development. While > it remained at the heart of his commitments to Open Source in general and > Libre Graphics software in particular, Peter contributed to Free Software > in many other ways as well. For example via contributions to projects > related to freedesktop.org, as a package builder of many Free programs > for several Linux distributions on the openSUSE Build Service, and later as > an openSUSE board member. Peter was also crucial in bringing the Libre > Graphics community together by way of sharing his expertise with other > graphics-oriented projects and his assistance in organzing the first Libre > Graphics Meetings. In the sometimes ego-driven and often emotional world of > Open Source development, Peter managed to get along very well with almost > everybody and never lost his sense of humour. > > > We will remember Peter "mrdocs" Linnell for what he was: an optimist, an > incredible team player, an honest man and, above all, a friend. > > > Our thoughts are with his family. > > > March 2019, > The Scribus Team > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create -- 1111.1010.r.i.1101|n.o.i.s.1110|i.m.1010.g.1110|مقاومة fsf member #5439 usuario GNU/Linux #471966 |_|0|_| |_|_|0| |0|0|0| <a href="http://www.gunga.com.br";>gunga</a> <a href="http://www.tempoecoarte.com.br";>tempoecoarte</a> <a href="http://www.atelier-labs.org";>atelier-labs</a> <a href="http://www.mocambos.net";>rede mocambos</a>
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