From lyz at princessleia.com  Sat Dec  5 09:36:01 2015
From: lyz at princessleia.com (Elizabeth K. Joseph)
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 09:36:01 -0800
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: BAD Meeting 7:10pm 2015-12-09 @ Henry's Hunan 110
 Natoma, SF
Message-ID: <CABesOu0y4SAmYjO5NbnNBzcYedW6XU5zY3KN4mrTO+pbS7KSbg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everyone,

It's been a few months since we've had dinner!

We'll be having a Bay Area Debian dinner in San Francisco on Wednesday
night of this week:

Who: Anyone interested in Debian
What: Bay Area Debian (BAD) meeting
When: 2015-12-09 7:10pm - 'till whenever (they close at 9)
Where: Henry's Hunan Restaurant, 110 Natoma St., San Francisco
Why: Because it's been a while :)

references/notes/etc/:
http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.com/
110 Natoma Street (between New Montgomery & 2nd, Mission & Howard)
San Francisco, CA 94105
1-415-546-4999

We'll have a BAD sign near our table with the Debian logo, as
well as Jessie (cowgirl) and Stretch (purple octopus) toys on the
table.

For those that may wonder what to do with their time before the BAD
meeting, there is also, preceding and quite nearby at the Starbucks on
New Montgomery Street:

Ubuntu Hour San Francisco
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/3261-ubuntu-hour-san-francisco/

-- 
Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2

From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu  Thu Dec 31 10:17:00 2015
From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:17:00 -0800
Subject: Ian Murdock passed away 2015-12-28
Message-ID: <20151231101700.18972i1gdbo0h7qc@webmail.rawbw.com>

Ian Murdock, Debian's original founder, passed away 2015-12-28.

https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html
https://blog.docker.com/2015/12/ian-murdock/
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/12/30/1938222/debian-founder-ian-murdock-has-died
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2008-September/000338.html
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.linux.development/Md3Modzg5TU/xty88y5OLaMJ


From rick at linuxmafia.com  Thu Dec 31 12:54:02 2015
From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 12:54:02 -0800
Subject: (forw) [svlug] Ian Murdock, founder of Debian, has died at 42
Message-ID: <20151231205402.GC22628@linuxmafia.com>

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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:20:01 -0800
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: svlug at lists.svlug.org
Subject: [svlug] Ian Murdock, founder of Debian, has died at 42

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/ian-murdock-father-of-debian-dead-at-42/

Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42
Former Sun VP and Linux Foundation CTO died under suspicious
circumstances.

by Sean Gallagher - Dec 30, 2015 3:03pm PST

Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution project, has
died at the age of 42. His death, announced in a blog post by Docker CEO
Ben Golub, [link] came after an apparent encounter with police and a
statement posted on Murdock's Twitter feed that he was going to commit
suicide, though no cause of his death has been given.

Murdock, born in Germany in 1973, founded Debian in 1993 while studying
computer science at Purdue University. The distribution gets its name
from the combination of his name and that of his then-girlfriend Deborah
Lynn. The pair married, and had two children; they divorced in 2007.

Murdock's Debian Manifesto [link] railed at the poor software maintenance 
of other Linux distributions of the time—and that of Softlanding Linux
System (SLS) in particular, bemoaning the lack of attention developers
gave to distributions and what he saw as the big cash grabs being made
by would-be commercial Linux developers. He outlined Debian's modular
architecture approach as well as its adherence to free software
philosophy.
[...]


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From rick at linuxmafia.com  Thu Dec 31 13:13:21 2015
From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:13:21 -0800
Subject: Vale, Ian Murdock (1973-04-28 - 2015-12-28)
Message-ID: <20151231211321.GB15424@linuxmafia.com>

----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> -----

Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:10:21 -0800
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: debian-devel at lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Vale, Ian Murdock (1973-04-28 ??? 2015-12-28)
Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.

Bradley M. Kuhn published an eloquent and elegaic 'Requiem for Ian
Murdock' on his blog at
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/12/30/ian-murdock.html.  As it is CC
BY-SA 3.0 US licensed, I'm posting it here.


Requiem for Ian Murdock
Wednesday 30 December 2015 by Bradley M. Kuhn

I first met Ian Murdock gathered around a table at some bar, somewhere,
after some conference in the late 1990s. Progeny Linux Systems's
founding was soon to be announced, and Ian had invited a group from the
Debian BoF along to hear about “something interesting”; the post-BoF
meetup was actually a briefing on his plans for Progeny.

Many of the details (such as which conference and where on the planet it
was), I've forgotten, but I've never forgotten Ian gathering us around,
bending my ear to hear in the loud bar, and getting one of my first
insider scoops on something big that was about to happen in Free
Software.  Ian was truly famous in my world; I felt like I'd won the
jackpot of meeting a rock star.

More recently, I gave a keynote at DebConf this year[1] and talked about
how long I've used Debian and how much it has meant to me.  I've since
then talked with many people about how the Debian community is rapidly
becoming a unicorn among Free Software projects — one of the last true
community-driven, non-commercial projects.

A culture like that needs a huge group to rise to fruition, and there
are no specific actions that can ensure creation of a multi-generational
project like Debian.  But, there are lots of ways to make the wrong
decisions early.  As near as I can tell, Ian artfully avoided the
project-ending mistakes; he made the early decisions right.

Ian cared about Free Software and wanted to make something useful for
the community.  He teamed up with (for a time in Debian's earliest
history[2]) the FSF to help Debian in its non-profit connections and
roots.  And, when the time came, he did what all great leaders do: he
stepped aside and let a democratic structure form.[3]  He paved the way
for the creation of Debian's strong Constitutional and democratic
governance.  Debian has had many great leaders in its long history, but
Ian was (effectively) the first DPL, and he _chose_ not to be a BDFL.

The Free Software community remains relatively young.  Thus, loss of our
community members jar us in the manner that uniquely unsettles the
young.  In other words, anyone we lose now, as we've lost Ian this week,
has died too young.  It's a cliché to say, but I say anyway that we
should remind ourselves to engage with those around us every day, and to
welcome new people gladly.  When Ian invited me around that table, I was
truly nobody: he'd never met me before — indeed no one in the Free
Software community knew who I was then.  Yet, the mere fact that I stayed
late at a conference to attend the Debian BoF was enough for him —
enough for him to even invite me to hear the secret plans of his new
company.  Ian's trust — his welcoming nature — remains for me
unforgettable.  I hope to watch that nature flourish in our community for
the remainder of all our lives.


[1] http://ebb.org/blog/2015/aug/17/debian/
[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-intro.en.html#s1.1
[3] http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/editorials/4959/1

RM note: Brad also invites comment at
https://identi.ca/bkuhn/note/EXXzcb0hT6Ob43gOcYaQYA


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From misha at nasledov.com  Thu Dec 31 18:25:45 2015
From: misha at nasledov.com (Misha Nasledov)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 18:25:45 -0800
Subject: Vale, Ian Murdock (1973-04-28 - 2015-12-28)
In-Reply-To: <20151231211321.GB15424@linuxmafia.com>
References: <20151231211321.GB15424@linuxmafia.com>
Message-ID: <20160101022545.GA9920@nasledov.com>

Thanks for sharing, Rick. I'm sad I never got to meet Ian Murdock. He
changed the world and my life forever. May the world remember him
always and may he rest in peace.

-- 
Misha Nasledov <misha at nasledov.com>
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