[mapserver-users] Thoughts for our friend Olivier Courtin

[Jeff McKenna]

On behalf of the MapServer community, and its PSC, we wish to send our 
condolences to the family of Olivier Courtin, as we have sadly learned 
of his unfortunate passing.

Olivier was a big part of the MapServer and Open Source community, 
through his work as the creator of the TinyOWS project, as a core 
contributor to PostGIS, as co-founder of the company Oslandia, as a 
manager with Camptocamp, and of course as a lead organizer of the 2016 
OSGeo Code Sprint in Paris.  Recently Olivier founded the open company 
DataPink, and created the open framework neat-EO.

Olivier through his work through various companies and projects helped 
fund conferences, sprints, functional additions to projects and, of 
course, contributions of code and support.  Olivier was a significant 
driver of those relationships, even given his quiet demeanor.

First priority is his family and friends (we have already reached out to 
his family to send our thoughts and offer assistance).  Some of us are 
quiet, and still processing this unfortunate news.

This is of course not the time to discuss software issues, but the 
MapServer PSC will tackle this shortly in the upcoming PSC meeting.

Again, our sincere thoughts to his family and close friends.

Olivier, we miss you already.

-on behalf of the MapServer PSC