[Opensim-dev] Latif Kalifa

[naofan teardrop]

Sorry for this loss.

I'm all the more sorry to inform you that the human who was naofan
teardrop, or fana dechou, or stephane shonagai, or some others too passed
away too on december the 20th from a lung cancer. I tried to unsuscribe him
from this list but I couldn't.

He used a lot of pseudos and mail adresses, but I think if you receive this
message, you might be able to unsuscribe him.

I'm his wife IRL.

2016-03-05 16:00 GMT+01:00 Diva Canto <diva at metaverseink.com>:

> 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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