<div dir="ltr">That is sad news Jeff, is it appropriate to make a blog post expressing our condolences and highlighting his contributions that you mention :(</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 November 2017 at 05:40, Jeff McKenna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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<br>
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Dear All,<br>
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I am very sorry to convey this sad news on this list.<br>
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A dear friend and an early pioneer of the GRASS team,<br>
David Hastings passed away in the Hospital in Colorado<br>
on Monday 13 November as 11.25am.<br>
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David was a member of the GRASS-GIS Interagency Steering<br>
Committee (GIASC) since 1987. I think he was a member till he passed<br>
away, since GIASC was never formally disbanded.<br>
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Besides his several other accomplishments, David is also an author of the<br>
Linux " GRASS HOWTO" [1].<br>
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David was diagnosed with a serious illness in May, 2016 and could<br>
not recover.<br>
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Thanks David for your contributions to GRASS, RIP.<br>
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Venka<br>
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[1] <a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/GIS-GRASS/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/GIS-<wbr>GRASS/</a><br>
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Osaka City University, Japan<br>
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