[Building Sakai] Sad news re. Steve Smail

[Ross Gardler]

I didn't know Steve, but such news is always sad.

Over at the ASF we have adopted the practice of maintaining a simple 
memorial page [1] for members of the community who are no longer with 
us. we have found that this is sometimes greatly appreciated by the 
family as it leaves a simple, but permanent record of the individuals 
valuable contributions to the world of open source.

Perhaps Sakai should consider maintaining such a page.

Ross

[1] http://www.apache.org/memorials/

On 04/01/2010 04:13, Jim Eng wrote:
> Steve's obituary as provided by the funeral home:
>
> http://www.allenfuneralhome.org/obituaries/steven-r-smail.aspx
>
>
>
> On Dec 31, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Dunn, Jon William Butcher wrote:
>
>> Dear Sakai community:
>>
>> I am very sorry to have to relay the sad news that Steve Smail,
>> Programmer/Analyst in Library Information Technology at Indiana
>> University,
>> passed away on Monday, December 28.
>>
>> Steve was a generous and long-time member of the Sakai developer
>> community,
>> and I know that many of you knew him through his work on the
>> Sakaibrary
>> project, Citations Helper, and previous library resource integration
>> efforts, as well as through his regular attendance at Sakai
>> conferences.
>>
>> In lieu of flowers, Steve's family suggests donations to Hospice of
>> Bloomington Hospital
>> <http://www.bloomingtonhospital.org/doc/Page.asp?PageID=DOC000161>,
>> the
>> Bloomington High School North Band program
>> <http://www.bhsnbands.com/donate.shtml>, or WonderLab
>> <http://www.wonderlab.org/membersndonors/donor.shtml>.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> ---
>> Jon Dunn
>> Associate Director for Technology
>> Indiana University Digital Library Program
>> IU Libraries / University Information Technology Services
>> jwd at indiana.edu
>> (812) 855-0953
>>
>>
>
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