<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pradeeptob@gmail.com" target="_blank">pradeeptob@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear List,<br>
<br>
Kenneth Gonsalves, those who don't know him, Kenneth was one of the<br>
leading FOSS, especially Python community members in India.<br>
Unfortunately, I have just got the news that he has passed away<br>
earlier today.<br>
<br>
All I can say is, Kenneth was a great supporter of FOSS. He was active<br>
on various LUG lists. I have had the opportunity to meet him a few<br>
times at various conferences, most recently being at PyCon 2011.<br>
Earlier during his NRCFOSS days, I got to interacted with him. Have<br>
disagreed and fought with him countless times on various things on<br>
mailing lists, irc etc. There have been more than one instances where<br>
his comments had pushed me to do more work for KDE. Can never forget<br>
the Qt/KDE live coding session at NIT Calicut for 2.5 hours. Wouldn't<br>
have happened if it not for him and what he had said to me the<br>
previous day - "Slides? What good is that going to do? Can't you just<br>
code and show the things you want to talk about?".<br>
<br>
Will miss you Kenneth, for all your ways and things you did. Rest in peace.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div> </div><div>I remember he used to write for Linux For You as well.<br>Rest in Peace, Kenneth.<br>We will surely miss you and your teachings.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
Pradeepto<br>
--<br>
Pradeepto Kumar Bhattacharya<br>
A *Proud* Member of The KDE Project.<br>
The KDE Project : <a href="http://www.kde.org" target="_blank">http://www.kde.org</a><br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Regards,<br>Abhinav Badola<br><br>