Very sorry to hear about this. Rest in peace, Latif. -- Justin
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Diva Canto <[email protected]> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users >
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