[OSGeo-Discuss] David Hastings has passed away

[Fenoy Gerald]

Dear Jeff, Dear list,
first of all, thanks a lot Jeff for forwarding this information to the community.

I have to present my apologize cause I had planned to send this email a long time ago.

I would like to personally present my apologies to the David's family and I hope he will rest in peace.

I was lucky enough to spend some great time with him in Vietnam then few years later in his own house when he hosted me in Denver during the international FOSS4G that happened there.

I remember working with him on his local GRASS setup with his so old keyboard, he was so proud about this keyboard.

Thanks for having shared your passion with us and to support the foundation in various and clever way.

With all my love.

Rest in peace


Gérald Fenoy
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay

> Le 14 nov. 2017 à 14:40, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> a écrit :
> 
> Very sad news indeed.  Even if you never got to meet David, you were all affected: he was a huge part of the first FOSS4G event in Bangkok in 2004, where Markus, Venka and myself spent so much time with him, talking, sharing, which gave us strength for the next steps in creating a global FOSS4G event.  David owes much credit and respect from our global community for his tireless vision.  David spent much time in all parts of Asia sharing his passion.  My thoughts to his family.  Very sad.  -jeff
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> -------- Forwarded Message --------
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> Dear All,
> 
> I am very sorry to convey this sad news on this list.
> 
> A dear friend and an early pioneer of the GRASS team,
> David Hastings passed away in the Hospital in Colorado
> on Monday 13 November as 11.25am.
> 
> David was a member of the GRASS-GIS Interagency Steering
> Committee (GIASC) since 1987. I think he was a member till he passed
> away, since  GIASC was never formally disbanded.
> 
> Besides his several other accomplishments, David is also an author of the
> Linux " GRASS HOWTO" [1].
> 
> David was diagnosed with a serious illness in May, 2016 and could
> not recover.
> 
> Thanks David for your contributions to GRASS, RIP.
> 
> Venka
> 
> [1] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/GIS-GRASS/
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> Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan
> Osaka City University, Japan
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