Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread Kazunari Hirano
> > louis > > > > > > > On 18 Jan 16, at 09:58, Simon Phipps wrote: > > > > > > Those of us who were also part of the former OpenOffice.org project > will > > be > > > shocked to hear of the sudden and untimely death of John McCreesh,

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread Roberto Galoppini
imited to the Italian one. Too bad. Roberto > > With affection, > louis > > > > On 18 Jan 16, at 09:58, Simon Phipps wrote: > > > > Those of us who were also part of the former OpenOffice.org project will > be > > shocked to hear of the sudden and untimely

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
is efforts, his intelligence, so much of what we did would have never been. With affection, louis > On 18 Jan 16, at 09:58, Simon Phipps wrote: > > Those of us who were also part of the former OpenOffice.org project will be > shocked to hear of the sudden and untimely death of John M

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Simon Phipps wrote: Those of us who were also part of the former OpenOffice.org project will be shocked to hear of the sudden and untimely death of John McCreesh Very sad news. John was a marketing gentleman and a true volunteer. We are still using his work on the OpenOffice website today

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread JZA
community. RIP. On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > Those of us who were also part of the former OpenOffice.org project will be > shocked to hear of the sudden and untimely death of John McCreesh, who used > to be the (volunteer) marketing lead for the project. I hav

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
hipps wrote: > Those of us who were also part of the former OpenOffice.org project will be > shocked to hear of the sudden and untimely death of John McCreesh, who used > to be the (volunteer) marketing lead for the project. I have written more > in [a public post on Facebook][1] whic

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 18/01/2016 16:20, RA Stehmann a écrit : > > We never met him, but when we start working with OpenOffice.org, we read > each single line of his "OpenOffice.org 1.0, ODBC, and MySQL 'How-to'" [0]. > Indeed, I remember translating that into French for the FR-nl community back in the day. Ale

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread RA Stehmann
We will never forget his name. We never met him, but when we start working with OpenOffice.org, we read each single line of his "OpenOffice.org 1.0, ODBC, and MySQL 'How-to'" [0]. Kind Regards Michael [0] http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL9.pdf signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital si

John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread Simon Phipps
Those of us who were also part of the former OpenOffice.org project will be shocked to hear of the sudden and untimely death of John McCreesh, who used to be the (volunteer) marketing lead for the project. I have written more in [a public post on Facebook][1] which also includes a newspaper report