Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Too sudden. Very sad. khirano On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Roberto Galoppini < roberto.galopp...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-01-18 20:17 GMT+01:00 Louis Suárez-Potts : > > > Thanks, Simon, though the news is bleak. > > > > I'll post to the Facebook page, at the least. I knew John for many years

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread Roberto Galoppini
2016-01-18 20:17 GMT+01:00 Louis Suárez-Potts : > Thanks, Simon, though the news is bleak. > > I'll post to the Facebook page, at the least. I knew John for many years > and kept in touch with him after OOo fell apart. This is brutal news, and > far more for those who loved him closely. I don't th

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Thanks, Simon, though the news is bleak. I'll post to the Facebook page, at the least. I knew John for many years and kept in touch with him after OOo fell apart. This is brutal news, and far more for those who loved him closely. I don't think I exaggerate in saying that without his efforts, hi

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Simon Phipps wrote: Those of us who were also part of the former OpenOffice.org project will be shocked to hear of the sudden and untimely death of John McCreesh Very sad news. John was a marketing gentleman and a true volunteer. We are still using his work on the OpenOffice website today. Tha

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread JZA
He will be missed. John was always very enthusiastic and positive force in the community. Great attitude and mind to guide the discussions. I am a bit shocked that this happened during actively working on different projects. I remember his reflective posts on his facebook after he retired from the

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
I also heard about it and it's very sad to hear this. John was indeed a huge enrichment for the community ans he was a very pleasant person. I met him several times and worked with him in the community council in the former pre Apache era of OepnOffice. Juergen On 18/01/16 15:58, Simon Phipps wr

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 18/01/2016 16:20, RA Stehmann a écrit : > > We never met him, but when we start working with OpenOffice.org, we read > each single line of his "OpenOffice.org 1.0, ODBC, and MySQL 'How-to'" [0]. > Indeed, I remember translating that into French for the FR-nl community back in the day. Ale

Re: John McCreesh

2016-01-18 Thread RA Stehmann
We will never forget his name. We never met him, but when we start working with OpenOffice.org, we read each single line of his "OpenOffice.org 1.0, ODBC, and MySQL 'How-to'" [0]. Kind Regards Michael [0] http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL9.pdf signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital si