[Opensim-dev] Latif Kalifa

[Shy Robbiani]

Silently saying good bye... Rest in peace.
Shy

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Ken Grunke <kenearlg at gmail.com> wrote:

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