[kde-community] Sad news (fwd)

[Jens Reuterberg]

That is a good point, Boud would probably be able to get a hold of the guys 
friend (who wrote on the Calligra list on his behalf) just to check in and 
make sure we don't do something they'd rather not see. 



On Wednesday 27 August 2014 22.03.34 Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> Jens, I think that would be lovely. It is so hard to lose a member of
> the community. And to lose a young person, who would otherwise have a
> long career ahead of them, feels tragic.
> 
> I would like to see a respectful Dot story, and some nice memories on
> blogs as well. And a named Calligra release seems perfect.
> 
> Does anyone have contact with the family, to be sure that this
> attention to their loved one is welcome?
> 
> Valorie
> 
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Jens <jens at ohyran.se> wrote:
> > +1
> > 
> > Moji or Mojtaba release sounds nice - should I do a black web banner or
> > something that we can add to our respective blogs?
> > 
> > Just to show some respect for someone who contributed to something that
> > benefit us all.
> > 
> > On Wednesday 27 August 2014 12.14.48 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 27 August 2014 09:00:04 Jens Reuterberg wrote:
> >> > Thats terrible news.
> >> > 
> >> > As a community would it be appropriate to write up a short
> >> > retrospective
> >> > of
> >> > Mojtaba? Perhaps combined with a photo, some information about him, his
> >> > work and his life and post it on one of the larger KDE blogs?
> >> > 
> >> > I don't know how Iranian burial customs work and we should check in
> >> > with
> >> > his family and friends (Mehrdad perhaps if you could help out) but with
> >> > their allowance it seems as a nice gesture to do towards someone who
> >> > has
> >> > been a part of our community as well as worked on things that benefit
> >> > us
> >> > all (beyond our own community).
> >> > 
> >> > What do everyone else think?
> >> 
> >> When community member Claire Lotion passed away in 2012, there was a Dot
> >> story ( https://dot.kde.org/2012/05/20/remembering-claire-lotion ) and
> >> the
> >> KDE SC 4.9 release was dedicated to her memory (
> >> http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.9/ ). Chakra followed suit and named
> >> their KDE SC 4.9 release series "Chakra Claire".
> >> 
> >> Maybe dedicating a Calligra release to  Mojtaba would make more sense
> >> than a KDE SC release because Calligra was his focus, but a dot story
> >> would surely be due.
> 
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