<div dir="ltr"><div>Silently saying good bye... Rest in peace.</div><div>Shy</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Ken Grunke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenearlg@gmail.com" target="_blank">kenearlg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Here is something from Latif's youtube
page, the only video showing "meatspace", showing him as living in
Denmark:<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/Wcd9_4zgshk" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Wcd9_4zgshk</a><div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 03/05/2016 10:42 AM, Terry Ford wrote:<br>
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Very sad indeed.<br>
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I did not know Latif, and was saddened by this news.<br>
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I did a quick search and found a page (<a href="http://slviewerdramaz.tumblr.com/page/2" target="_blank">http://slviewerdramaz.tumblr.com/page/2</a>)
which seems to indicate Latif is actually Edin Kadribašić.<br>
<a href="https://plus.google.com/+EdinKadribasic/posts" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/+EdinKadribasic/posts</a><br>
<a href="http://www.edin.dk/p/about-me.html" target="_blank">http://www.edin.dk/p/about-me.html</a><br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/edin.kadribasic" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/edin.kadribasic</a><br>
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This seems to indicate he was also involved in the PHP project as
well as several other things.<br>
Not completely sure on this, maybe someone else knows better than
I?<br>
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I and the rest of the OpenSim community will always owe a debt of
gratitude for his contributions.<br>
I wish his family peace and my thoughts are with them.<br>
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~Terry<br>
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<div>On 3/5/2016 10:00 AM, Diva Canto
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<blockquote type="cite">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. <br>
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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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
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His code will outlive him. <br>
He will be missed. <br>
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<b>Terry Ford</b><br>
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