[CREATE] [Inkscape-devel] R.I.P. mrdocs (1963--2019)

[Josh Andler]

I was really caught off guard by his passing. I had looked for him at SCALE
this year as that's the event I got to see him at the most, but chalked it
up to he couldn't make it (not knowing why). Peter was a really great guy
from my handful of interactions with him at SCALE over the years (and my
many more interactions with him on IRC for many years leading up to meeting
him). My condolences.

Cheers,
Josh

On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 1:50 AM C R <cajhne at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would we like to put together a memorial video? I didn't know him
> personally, but clearly I, like so many others, have benefited from his
> work for many years. All we need are some good pictures, and possibly some
> folks who worked with him answering some questions, and/or sharing stories
> (video or audio is fine). A list of the projects he worked with would be
> great too.
>
> Much respect, and deep sympathies,
> -C
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, 04:24 Bryce Harrington, <bryce at bryceharrington.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I was very stunned and saddened to hear about mrdocs' passing today.  My
>> sympathies go to his family, and to the extended graphics community that
>> he did so much to help build.  I lost my own mother to cancer in
>> December, so this hits home.
>>
>> Peter played an instrumental role in Inkscape's early days to connect us
>> with Scribus and other projects.  In those days, Qt and Gtk seemed polar
>> opposites but he demonstrated that the things we had in common - a love
>> of graphics, a belief in Open Source, and the camaraderie of
>> collaboration - was far stronger.
>>
>> I think I speak for the Inkscape team to say thank you, Peter, you will
>> be missed but we share your passion for our extended FOSS graphics
>> community, and will strive to bring welcome to our sister projects as
>> you brought welcome to us.
>>
>> Bryce
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 12:20:49AM +0100, "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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