From freedesktop-openicc Fri Mar 22 22:02:38 2019 From: Kai-Uwe Behrmann Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:02:38 +0000 To: freedesktop-openicc Subject: [Openicc] Fwd: R.I.P. mrdocs (1963--2019) Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-openicc&m=155329216506447 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============0290137427==" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============0290137427== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------92DF2294244DE6F2D51515E0" Content-Language: en-US This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------92DF2294244DE6F2D51515E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We learned that Peter Linnell has faded away. I will keep him in memory for his inspiring and encouraging spirit. Thank you Peter, for giving the initial impulse to the OpenICC list. Kai-Uwe Behrmann -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [CREATE] R.I.P. mrdocs (1963--2019) Datum: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:20:49 +0100 Von: "Christoph Sch=C3=A4fer" An: CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org, Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, scribus@lists.scribus.net, scribus-dev@lists.scribus.net 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 --------------92DF2294244DE6F2D51515E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

We learned that Peter Linnell has faded away. I will keep him in memory for his inspiring and encouraging spirit. Thank you Peter, for giving the initial impulse to the OpenICC list.

Kai-Uwe Behrmann


-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------

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Von:= "Christoph Sch=C3=A4fer" <christoph-schaefer@gmx.de&= gt;
An: = CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org, Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, scribus@lists.scribus.net, scribus-dev@l= ists.scribus.net


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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