Debian Project mourns the loss of Adrian von Bidder
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Debian Project mourns the loss of Adrian von Bidder press@debian.org
April 23rd, 2011 http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20100423
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Debian Project mourns the loss of Adrian von Bidder
The Debian Project has lost an active member of its community. Adrian
von Bidder (cmot) died on April 17th.
Adrian was one of the founding members and current secretary of
debian.ch, he sparked many ideas that made Debian Switzerland be what
it is today. Adrian also actively maintained software in the Debian
package archive, and represented the project at numerous events. Even
to those, who haven't worked with him directly, he was well known for
his sometimes thoughtful, sometimes funny blog posts.
[1]: http://debian.ch
Adrian founded the "NTP Pool" [2] (crowd-sourced time synchronisation),
which our project has since fully adopted.
[2]: http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/
The Debian Project honours his excellent work and strong dedication to
Debian and Free Software. Adrian's broad technical knowledge and his
ability and consistent willingness to share that knowledge with others
will be missed. The contributions of Adrian will not be forgotten, and
the high standards of his work will continue to serve as an inspiration
to others.
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