I remember meeting Peter in Montreal at the 2009 LGM, and immediately getting a huge boost: his confidence that we'd all do well was infectious. Later on, he actually made me blush when reading my morning dose of Linux news: https://lwn.net/Articles/569096/ . Thank you Peter, for all you've done, and all you've been for all of us.
On vrijdag 22 maart 2019 00:20:49 CET Christoph Schäfer wrote: > 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 -- https://www.valdyas.org | https://www.krita.org _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
