Saddened to hear that. Deepest condolence to his family. May his soul rest in peace.
-- Shailesh On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa....@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear friends, > > One of our senior members, Vinay Pawar (usually known as ZOYD), > expired on Saturday (9th) evening. > While he was coming to the PLUG meeting, he met with a traffic > accident near RTO. > He was taken to Sasoon hospital immediately, but treatment was not of much > use. > > Zoyd was an active member of PLUG since 1999-2000. He actively > participated in all the PLUG events, especially the CMDA expo and > GNUnify. He was instrumental in creating the name "GNUnify" and the > logo for the first GNUnify conference. > > He actively participated in all the PLUG meetings. During the > meetings, he also appeared to think several steps ahead in the > technical matter under discussion, rather than dwelling on the > obvious. > We will always remember him for his “courteous, un-assuming, > non-pushy, matter-of-fact, positive, helpful comments and suggestions > for improvement ” > > He was very good in graphics and did a lot of work in Inkscape and > GIMP. The current PLUG logo (Tux with Puneri pagdi) was created by > him ( after > the initial work by Somesh ). > > He was working on blender these days. He did mention in his blog, > about doing couple of models for the recently released short film > "Sintel", but not > confirmed if that got included. He had said he was to be working more > actively in next project. > > He was quite active in LFS too. Some years back, he had started a > project called Antomic (http://antomic.sourceforge.net/). In this, he > had created a complete LFS distro called Antomic GNU/Linux. The name > was inspired by "ants". > > Apart from his interest and participation in FOSS activities, he was > also active in BMX/mountainbiking with other riders from group > www.ride2026.com > > His blog: http://www.vinaypawar.com/blog/ > His photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinaypawar/ > > His lean, trim, atheletic figure on a bike is hard to forget... > He was just about 30 and his untimely death is a great loss to PLUG. > May god rest his soul in peace. > > Zoyd, we will miss you. > > --Sudhanwa > > _______________________________________ > Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
