[OOTB-hive] Passing of marsbard

[Fernando González]

Hello,

I know that lately I am not very active, mainly due to my
communication problems in English, but occasionally I communicated
with Martin. It was sad news for me.

D.E.P.


Fernando González Ruano
Skype: fegorama
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El lun., 3 jun. 2019 a las 23:31, Axel Faust
(<axel.faust.g at googlemail.com>) escribió:
>
> 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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