[Opensim-dev] Latif Kalifa

[Fly Man]

Lkalif was also one of the people that was able to bring out the best in
people when they were coding against the LibOMV. Many of the projects that
lean on LibOMV were supported by Lkalif himself or he helped with good
advice / code.

Hearing about his illness last year also made it clear that Radegast and
other projects would be placed on a low profile while he wasn't able to
contribute as much anymore like he wanted.

Today we lost both a great developer and also a friend to many that knew
him, if you can speak of knowing a person through talking on IRC,
Secondlife or other places.

I hope his family will take comfort in knowing that we, the Virtual World
Community, have lost a person and mourn his loss deeply.

Kristina: Moja sućut

2016-03-05 16:02 GMT+01:00 VirtualWorld Hosting <
virtualworldhosting at gmail.com>:

> My heart goes out to his family friends and loved ones
> On 5 Mar 2016 15:00, "Diva Canto" <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:
>
>> It is with great sadness that I inform you that one of the oldest and
>> most respected members of this community, Latif Kalifa, has passed away,
>> after a long battle with a serious health condition that landed him in the
>> hospital many times over the past few years.
>>
>> Latif's contributions to the open source SL ecosystem were vast and
>> varied. He was one of the original contributors, and the main maintainer,
>> of libOMV, a library that embodies the LL protocol and data structures.
>> LibOMV lies at the heart of OpenSimulator, as well as many SL/OpenSim bots
>> developed by lots of people. Latif also developed Radegast, an alternative
>> viewer used by many, especially people with disabilities. He also
>> contributed to the Singularity viewer and its offshoot, Replex. He
>> participated in the SL Architecture Working Group, and in many technical
>> discussions in the OpenSim-dev IRC chat channel. He was a vocal advocate of
>> free open source software.
>>
>> We don't necessarily know who Latif was in real life, what he did for a
>> living, or who is family and loved ones are. That's one of the consequences
>> of being part of world-wide online communities, where we interact only with
>> virtual representations of real people, often using pseudonyms. But it was
>> clear to everyone who interacted with him that his spirit was strong and
>> that his heart, wherever in the world he lived, was in the right place.
>> Open source software exists because of people like him.
>>
>> His code will outlive him.
>> He will be missed.
>>
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