Goodbye Malcolm (Tredinnick)

[Posted March 19, 2013 by corbet]

The Django community mourns the passing of Malcolm Tredinnick. "Malcolm was a long-time contributor to Django, a model community member, a brilliant mind, and a friend. His contributions to Django — and to many other open source projects — are nearly impossible to enumerate. Many on the core Django team had their first patches reviewed by him; his mentorship enriched us. His consideration, patience, and dedication will always be an inspiration to us."

Goodbye Malcolm (Tredinnick)

Posted Mar 19, 2013 23:53 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] (3 responses)

Last tweet:

Woke up late, afternoon nap and I still want to go to bed early. So tired; wasted the day.
— Malcolm Tredinnick (@malcolmt) March 16, 2013

Goodbye Malcolm (Tredinnick)

Posted Mar 20, 2013 20:23 UTC (Wed) by smokeing (guest, #53685) [Link] (2 responses)

Anyone else seeing some eerie presentiment here? "Getting up late" just isn't news good enough to tweet, is it?

Goodbye Malcolm (Tredinnick)

Posted Mar 20, 2013 22:50 UTC (Wed) by jimparis (guest, #38647) [Link] (1 responses)

Not just presentiment: according to this page, fatigue and concentration problems are common symptoms of an aneurysm. Maybe this influence on awareness of the issue will help somebody someday.

Goodbye Malcolm (Tredinnick)

Posted Mar 21, 2013 18:44 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Perhaps, perhaps not, but fatigue and concentration problems both appear frequently, often in combination, and very rarely does that signify an aneurysm. Heck, I lost Tuesday this week, and a whole week earlier this month, to just that combination of symptoms, but didn't have an aneurysm in either case (thank goodness).

The statistics of rare events are a sod that way. Even a perfectly reliable indicator isn't always useful :(

Goodbye Malcolm (Tredinnick)

Posted Mar 20, 2013 1:12 UTC (Wed) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link]

I'm shocked and saddened to hear this. I have such fond memories of hanging out with Malcolm at LCA. In addition to being a compelling speaker, he was also a genuinely nice human being. RIP mate.

Goodbye Malcolm (Tredinnick)

Posted Mar 20, 2013 5:07 UTC (Wed) by mrda (guest, #89948) [Link]

RIP Malcolm, thank you for your contributions to Free Software & Open-Source, and for your support of linux.conf.au You will be missed.

Goodbye Malcolm (Tredinnick)

Posted Mar 20, 2013 6:39 UTC (Wed) by skvidal (guest, #3094) [Link] (1 responses)

Wow, I met Malcolm many years ago at dinner in boston. He was funny and clever and just plain friendly. We bounced back in forth in vaguely related projects for years and through various media sources. I'm shocked and saddened by his death. He will be missed not only as a major contributor to a lot of projects but also as a nice guy to be around and talk to.

-sv

Goodbye Malcolm (Tredinnick)

Posted Mar 20, 2013 15:11 UTC (Wed) by louie (guest, #3285) [Link]

!@#!@#@!. Very fond memories of sitting on my futon in Boston, pounding out text and code together that became the first GNOME 2.x "about" box. One of the nicest, most genuine people I've known in free software.