[Opensim-dev] [Opensim-users] Latif Kalifa

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Very sorry to hear about this.  Rest in peace, Latif.

-- Justin

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 3:00 PM, 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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