Most of you may read Debian News, but some probably don't. In any case, I felt the need to foward these very sad news to i18n contributors. Please find a more personal comment of mine at the end of this mail. ----- Forwarded message from Debian Project <press@debian.org> ----- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:46:16 +0200 From: Debian Project <press@debian.org> To: debian-news@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop X-Mailing-List: <debian-news@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/466 X-CRM114-Status: UNSURE (5.9308) This message is 'unsure'; please train it! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop press@debian.org August 31st, 2010 http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100831 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop The Debian Project has lost a member of its community. Frans Pop (fjp) died on August 20th. Frans was involved in Debian as a maintainer of several packages, a supporter of the S/390 port, and one of the most involved members of the Debian Installer team. He was a Debian Listmaster, editor and release manager of the Installation Guide and the release notes, as well as a Dutch translator. The Debian Project honours his good work and strong dedication to Debian and Free Software. Frans' broad technical knowledge and his ability to share that knowledge with others will be missed. The contributions of Frans will not be forgotten, and the high standards of his work will continue to serve as an inspiration to others. About Debian ------------ The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free operating systems Debian GNU/Linux. Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press@debian.org>.</p> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-news-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100831134615.GT12469@melusine.alphascorpii.net ----- End forwarded message ----- Personal comment by myself: The news about Frans' death was a shock to me when I received it on Sunday Aug 22nd. The i18n/l10n community of Debian lost one of its most active contributors. Frans' first contributions to Debian were indeed in the field of documentation and localization (in Dutch, his native language). Frans lead the Debian Installer management for two years and has a great part in the success of the Debian Installer releases and, as a consequence, in the success of Debian releases. Until the very end of his life, he was committed to work on Dutch localization of D-I, to prepare releases of the Debian Installation Guide (which included coordination the translation work for it) and so many contributions that make it hard to list. Frans was very well known and respected for the very high quality standard he was applying in all his work for Debian, which helped a lot of ourselves to raise our own quality standards. I am very proud for having been a very close Debian colleague of Frans all over 6 years of mutual contributions in Debian (the first message Frans sent to the debian-boot mailing list was on March 1st 2004). While it's hard to define who is a friend and who is not in a virtual community like ours, I think that we both shared enough good and bad moments for being as close as people can be in a large project like Debian. The Debian Project was represented at Frans' funeral ceremony and several Debian developers could show Frans' family how shocked we were, expressed the respect that the project members had for him and could share their grief and pain. I know that many of you share these feelings. Rest In Peace, my friend. You will be missed. --
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