[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar DIgest 2015-05-26

[Sameer Verma]

Just saw the news as well.
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2015-May/msg00027.html

I exchanged a few notes with him about his illness some time ago (my mother
had the same. She passed away a few months ago). Marco seemed to be doing
better.

His work will live on.

Sameer
On May 26, 2015 6:28 AM, "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. It is with great sadness that write these words: Marco Presenti Gritti,
> the principal Sugar developer from Red Hat from 2006 to 2008 and one of the
> founders of Sugar Labs, passed away this past weekend after a long illness.
> Marco was a brilliant engineer whose work still reverberates throughout the
> Sugar stack and a warm, personable colleague, father, and husband. We will
> miss you Marco.
>
> == Sugar Digest ==
>
> 2. For those of you who are interested, we hold our GSoC group meetings on
> Fridays, 11:00 EST (Boston), 14:00 UTC on irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting.
>
> === Tech Talk ===
>
> 3. Peter Robinson, Sam Parkinson, Sean Daly, and Iain Brown Douglas have
> done a great job of revamping the Sugar on a Stick spin site for Fedora.
> Please see [1].
>
> === Sugar Labs ===
>
> 4. Please visit our planet [2].
>
> ---
>
> [1] http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/
> [2] http://planet.sugarlabs.org
>
> -walter
>
>
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> Walter Bender
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>
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