Debian Project mourns the loss of Adrian von Bidder [LWN.net]

The Debian News page notes the passing of longtime developer Adrian von Bidder. "Adrian was one of the founding members and current secretary of debian.ch, he sparked many ideas that made Debian Switzerland be what it is today. Adrian also actively maintained software in the Debian package archive, and represented the project at numerous events. Even to those, who haven't worked with him directly, he was well known for his sometimes thoughtful, sometimes funny blog posts."

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Debian Project mourns the loss of Adrian von Bidder

Posted Apr 27, 2011 23:23 UTC (Wed) by Tara_Li (guest, #26706) [Link] (5 responses)

Very informative. Maybe I can google his obituary and get Google to translate it.

Oh, well - no luck, even on the Suisse page. Guess it'll be one of those enduring mysteries.

Debian Project mourns the loss of Adrian von Bidder

Posted Apr 28, 2011 1:58 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

Debian respects his family's wishes:

http://lists.debian.org/4DB7E40B.7070005@schmehl.info

Debian Project mourns the loss of Adrian von Bidder

Posted Apr 28, 2011 2:28 UTC (Thu) by Tara_Li (guest, #26706) [Link]

Huh. Ok - I didn't see in there where it says the family asked us not to - it says the general policy is not to ask the family, out of sympathy.

However, obituaries in the part of the US where I come from are public record - generally published in the local newspaper. They're sometimes simply called "death notices".

Perhaps it's not the custom in Switzerland? Or perhaps there's just not enough people in Switzerland involved in Debian for one of them to say "Oh, yeah, I saw that in the paper the other day..."

Heck, if you know what to ask Google for, it's not hard to find my parent's obituary online, and they're not of world-wide note, as Adrian is.

Debian Project mourns the loss of Adrian von Bidder

Posted Apr 28, 2011 7:47 UTC (Thu) by tolimar (guest, #35638) [Link]

He died, he did very good work and was fun to work with, we miss him. What information is missing?

Debian Project mourns the loss of Adrian von Bidder

Posted Apr 28, 2011 9:13 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link] (1 responses)

A touch more info from his widow:
http://blog.fortytwo.ch/archives/110-cmot-died-on-April-1...

Debian Project mourns the loss of Adrian von Bidder

Posted Apr 29, 2011 18:34 UTC (Fri) by Tara_Li (guest, #26706) [Link]

Thanks - that was the kind of thing I was looking for.