[OOTB-hive] Passing of marsbard

[Tahir Malik]

Thanks Axel for letting us know! And It's very sad that at a young age he's passed away.

I've worked closely with him on several Alfresco stuff. Even the IRC replacement Mattermost is still online (not active) https://chat.orderofthebee.org.
He'll be missed for sure.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Tahir Shazad Malik
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-----Original Message-----
From: OOTB-hive <ootb-hive-bounces at lists.xtreamlab.net> On Behalf Of Fernando González
Sent: dinsdag 4 juni 2019 09:59
To: Axel Faust <axel.faust.g at googlemail.com>
Cc: ootb-hive <ootb-hive at xtreamlab.net>
Subject: Re: [OOTB-hive] Passing of marsbard

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
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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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