[OOTB-hive] Passing of marsbard

[Boriss Mejias]

Hi Axel and the other bees,

Apart from the obvious and heavy sadness, it's difficult to describe how I
feel with these news. I haven't seen the twitter flow, so these are the
first news I get. Very very sad to hear this.
I should probably dig into my IRC logs and find that conversation I had
with Martin and Ole when we came up with the idea to create the Order of
the Bee. I actually wanted to call the Order of Maja the Bee, or other
known bees, but Martin convinced me to just keep it as "Order of the Bee",
clearly a very good idea.

Too bad he's not with us any more. I will miss him.

Boriss

On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 23:31, Axel Faust <axel.faust.g at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> some of you may have already read our tweet from today, but we want to
> make sure that members who do not use Twitter are also informed.
>
> This morning, Daren informed the rest of the board that, sadly, Martin
> Cosgrave (@marsbard) unexpectedly passed away this weekend, aged 48.
> This obviously came as a shock to all of us - Daren had last talked with
> Martin as recently as Thursday. From what we have learned over the
> course of the day, Martin passed away in his sleep due to a heart
> attack. Daren is in contact with Martin's friends and family, and will
> keep us informed as may be relevant for us / our members to pay our
> respect or submit our condolences to his family and friends.
>
> For those on the list who may have not have been involved with the Order
> of the Bee from the beginning, Martin Cosgrave was one of the initial
> founders of the order, being a vocal proponent of Alfresco remaining
> open source and - at a time when the corporate focus of Alfresco seemed
> to be shifting with a new CEO, Jeff leaving Alfresco and Summit being
> cancelled - setting up some sort of community organisation to help unify
> our many voices and make Alfresco (re-)realize the value of the open
> source community. Martin served as one of the initial members of the
> board, worked in the infrastructure / distribution committees to manage
> our technical systems and try to develop the idea of Honeycomb, a
> pre-packaged distribution of Alfresco Community including commonly used,
> validated addons from within the community. While ultimately this idea
> did not pan out, it was not for a lack of effort and persistence on
> Martin's part. Even when his regular job no longer revolved around
> Alfresco, he continued to invest part of his personal time to work on
> the various ideas he had championed and the resulting tasks. Martin was
> also involved in the planning and execution of the first BeeCon
> conference 2016 in Brussels, with which we successfully filled the void
> left by Alfresco cancelling Summit, and which eventually helped Alfresco
> rediscover the value of developer conferences, leading to a continuation
> of DevCon in 2018.
>
> I am sure everyone among us who knew and worked with Martin personally
> will miss him, and we all will remember him for how he has enriched and
> helped shape our community.
>
>
> Axel
>
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