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diff --git a/by-vasudev.tex b/by-vasudev.tex index d035e2f..821d8b7 100644 --- a/by-vasudev.tex +++ b/by-vasudev.tex @@ -1,32 +1,32 @@ \begin{english} \secstar{My notes on Jinesh} -Jinesh, I never met him personally nor I knew who he was. he used to -send patches once in a while to SILPA project. I actually came close +Jinesh, I never met him personally nor I knew who he was. He used to +send patches once in a while to the SILPA project. I actually came close to the guy when I started seeing the commits from him on pypdflib -project, even though I was doing periodic commits to pydpflib my -commits were basically just back ground fixes and optimisations than -actual code for pydpflib core functionality. We did find few issues -and logged them in savannah project page \footnote{\url{http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=pypdflib}} and Jinesh starting to -commit on these issues fixing them one by one. He used to come online -and discuss things with me, we used to have very long elaborated -discussions. Still I didn't know what Jinesh was doing. It was then -Santhosh told me that Jinesh is in Hospital fighting Blood Cancer and +project. Even though I was doing periodic commits to pydpflib, my +commits were basically just back ground fixes and optimizations rather than +actual code for pydpflib core functionality. We did find a few issues +and logged them in savannah project page. \footnote{\url{http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=pypdflib}} Jinesh started to +commit on these issues, fixing them one by one. He used to come online +and discuss things with me and we used to have very long elaborated +discussions. I still didn't know what Jinesh was doing. It was then +Santhosh told me that Jinesh was in Hospital fighting Blood Cancer and I was shocked to hear that. Because when you talk with him you really -can't make out guy is coding things and chatting from his hospital bed -fighting one of the worst diseases known to man kind. Well I didn't -interact much with him after that probably because he was undergoing +can't make out that the guy is coding things and chatting from his hospital bed, +fighting one of the deadliest diseases known to mankind. Well, I didn't +interact much with him after that. Probably because he was undergoing more medical therapies and was not getting time to come online. -After one month or 2 I got the shocking news from Santhosh that Jinesh -is no more! I had no words to express and if you see the pypdflib -commit logs you will see last commits were made by Jinesh and after -him the project almost went to inactive state. There are a couple of +After a month or two, I got the shocking news from Santhosh that Jinesh +was no more! I did not have words to express my grief. Moreover, if you see the pypdflib +commit logs, you will see that the last commits were made by Jinesh and after +him, the project almost went to an inactive state. There are a couple of tasks which was assigned to me by Jinesh which I think I never completed.\footnote{\url{http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?group=pypdflib}} In short words we lost a great contributor and a good friend. Even -though we never met he was really nice and cheerful person. I will +though we never met, he was a really nice and cheerful person. I will miss him. Vasudev Kamath , Contributor - various indic language computing projects |