[scribus-dev] [CREATE] R.I.P. mrdocs (1963--2019)

[Pat David]

This is truly sad news. Condolences to his family and friends. :(

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 6:21 PM "Christoph Schäfer" <
christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote:

> The Scribus Team is deeply saddened to announce the loss of our friend and
> colleague Peter Linnell who in the end lost his long battle against cancer.
>
>
> It is no understatement to say that without Peter Scribus wouldn't be what
> it is today. It was Peter who spotted the potential of Franz Schmid's
> initially humble Python program and, as a pre-press consultant at the time,
> contacted Franz to make him aware of the necessities of PostScript and PDF
> support, among other things. Peter also wrote the first version of the
> Scribus online documentation, which resulted in his nickname "mrdocs" in
> IRC and elsewhere. Until recently, and despite his detoriating health,
> Peter continued to be involved in building and releasing new Scribus
> versions.
>
>
> Scribus was the project he helped to set on track and which marked the
> beginning of his journey into the world of Free Software development. While
> it remained at the heart of his commitments to Open Source in general and
> Libre Graphics software in particular, Peter contributed to Free Software
> in many other ways as well. For example via contributions to projects
> related to freedesktop.org, as a package builder of many Free programs
> for several Linux distributions on the openSUSE Build Service, and later as
> an openSUSE board member. Peter was also crucial in bringing the Libre
> Graphics community together by way of sharing his expertise with other
> graphics-oriented projects and his assistance in organzing the first Libre
> Graphics Meetings. In the sometimes ego-driven and often emotional world of
> Open Source development, Peter managed to get along very well with almost
> everybody and never lost his sense of humour.
>
>
> We will remember Peter "mrdocs" Linnell for what he was: an optimist, an
> incredible team player, an honest man and, above all, a friend.
>
>
> Our thoughts are with his family.
>
>
> March 2019,
> The Scribus Team
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