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
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