[fr]
Rob Levin, fondateur du réseau IRC freenode (plus connu sous son pseudo lilo) est mort des suites d'un accident de la route.
[en]
I’ve just received news of Rob Levin’s death (lilo on freenode) when logging on after coming back home from a surprise evening I’ll tell you about later, given the circumstances. Needless to say I’m pretty shaken.
I’d never actually met Rob, of course. But I remember many conversations with him on freenode — about nickname issues, about freenode and the underlying concept of community it was built on, about leaving New Orleans before Katrina arrived. He was somebody I always enjoyed chatting with, and I was always amazed at how he would take time for small issues like my nickname problems. He struck me as nice, patient and understanding for the little I knew him.
As founder of freenode, he was of course an important person to me. Freenode is a place which lies at the center of my online social life. But more than that to me, he was also simply a person I chatted with every now and again and really appreciated. I’m going to miss him.
I’m doing something I usually tell people not to do: publish stuff when emotions are fresh. My excuses therefore, if I sound a bit rambling or whatever — but there’s just no way I can just head for bed right now as I was planning to do when I got home. Hopefully writing this here will help me accept what has happened and feel a little less sick.
Bye, lilo. My thoughts are with your family and friends. You will be very much missed.
Related:
- http://www.sephiroth.ws/main/general/rip-lilo-of-freenode/
- http://blog.wachob.com/2006/09/rip_rob_lilo_le.html
- http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/16/freenode_founder_rob.html
- http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/09/16/2152243.shtml
- http://www.rubyonrailsblog.com/articles/2006/09/16/rob-levin-of-freenode-is-dead
- http://lascribe.net/2006/09/16/12/ and http://serendipity.lascribe.net/?p=291
- http://digg.com/tech_news/Lilo_has_died
- http://www.tonystreet.com/archives/2006/09/16/lilo-has-passed/ (with IRC transcript)
- http://freenode.net/news.shtml
- http://laughingsquid.com/2006/09/16/freenode-founder-rob-levin-aka-lilo-has-passed-away/
- http://rudyvalencia.hopto.org/in-memory-of-lilo (transcript)
- http://epeus.blogspot.com/2006/09/in-memoriam-rob-lilo-levin.html
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