[Opensim-dev] Latif Kalifa

[Ken Grunke]

Here is something from Latif's youtube page, the only video showing 
"meatspace", showing him as living in Denmark:
https://youtu.be/Wcd9_4zgshk


On 03/05/2016 10:42 AM, Terry Ford wrote:
> Very sad indeed.
>
> I did not know Latif, and was saddened by this news.
>
> I did a quick search and found a page 
> (http://slviewerdramaz.tumblr.com/page/2) which seems to indicate 
> Latif is actually Edin Kadribašić.
> https://plus.google.com/+EdinKadribasic/posts
> http://www.edin.dk/p/about-me.html
> https://www.facebook.com/edin.kadribasic
>
> This seems to indicate he was also involved in the PHP project as well 
> as several other things.
> Not completely sure on this, maybe someone else knows better than I?
>
> I and the rest of the OpenSim community will always owe a debt of 
> gratitude for his contributions.
> I wish his family peace and my thoughts are with them.
>
> ~Terry
>
>
>
> On 3/5/2016 10:00 AM, Diva Canto 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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