Thank You Jagandh, Apparently he was still writing code as late as 3 days back. He died with his boots on....A great way to go...
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:45 PM, JAGANADH G <jagana...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kenneth Gonsalvas (KG / lawgon) passed away on 3rd Aug 2012. He was leading > light, mentor, evangelist and practitioner of Free and Open Source > Software. He was a geek up to his last moments. His demise is a great loss > to FOSS Community in India. May his soul rest in peace. > > A short bio of Kenneth Gonsalvas (Prepared by KG only) > > "Although he has no formal training in the IT field, Kenneth Gonsalves has > been programming since 1986, starting with Turbo Pascal, then moving to > Perl and finally to Python in 2003. Since then he has focused on Python in > general and the Django web frame work in particular. He is an open source > enthusiast and has spoken and written on open source right from 1995 when > he was first introduced to it. He has conducted over 50 seminars and > workshops in python and Django. He was the founder president of the Indian > Python Software Society and a member of the team that has organised the > highly successful Indian python conferences from 2009 to 2011. He is now > based in Ooty where he writes and consults on open source. He also conducts > a job oriented course in python and django. His other main interest is golf > and he holds an international certification as a golf referee and has > refereed several national level golf tournaments. He writes a regular > column called 'Foss is fun' for the LFY monthly. Most of his code > contributions are here: http://bitbucket.org/lawgon/"; > > He was a good mentor and friend to many of us. > > Some of his contributions, writing and rambling can be found > > [1]http://lawgon.livejournal.com/ > [2] http://bitbucket.org/lawgon/ > [3]http://search.cpan.org/~lawgon/ > [4]http://www.linuxforu.com/author/kenneth-gonsalves/ > [5]https://people.djangoproject.com/lawgon/ > [6]http://in.linkedin.com/pub/kenneth-gonsalves/4/565/10b > > > -- > ********************************** > JAGANADH G > > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
