From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F791F404 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:24:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751402AbeA2RYz (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:24:55 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:32780 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751264AbeA2RYy (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:24:54 -0500 Received: (qmail 21597 invoked by uid 109); 29 Jan 2018 17:24:55 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:24:55 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 4678 invoked by uid 111); 29 Jan 2018 17:25:34 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) SMTP; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:25:34 -0500 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:24:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:24:52 -0500 From: Jeff King To: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org, chris@dibona.com, Scott@gasch.org Subject: Re: Shawn Pearce has died Message-ID: <20180129172452.GB4185@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <87bmhcsnhv.fsf@evledraar.booking.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87bmhcsnhv.fsf@evledraar.booking.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 04:17:32PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > They don't want any flowers sent over to them, but I wonder if we > couldn't make some sort of tribute to Shawn at the upcoming developer > meeting in Barcelona (and find some way to have remote people contribute > to it). > > E.g. a short video/audio of different people in the dev community > sharing some story about Shawn, or a written list of memories > contributed by and signed by various people. > > I don't know what that would look like exactly, but I think it would be > a good thing for his family and especially for his children when they're > grown to remember him by, to know that their father contributed to these > software projects with people all over the world, and that all these > people appreciated his work and him personally. I like this direction (though like you, I'm not sure exactly what it should look like). I'm not sure what kind of video presence GitHub will have at the contrib summit, but I'll see about getting some interview footage there. Doing something written, though, may make it easier for remote people to collaborate. -Peff