This is a couple of days past, but I couldn't get my spoons together enough to write this till now.
Many of you know James Lopeman, mostly by the name of Meflin. He's a @ThePSF Fellow, been an Admin and Mentor for #GSoC , and been around the open source world, quietly in the background as is his way, for many many a year.
Meflin passed somewhat suddenly on Wednesday the 16th.
It was natural causes nothing too crazy there.
He was the absolute pinnacle of why, we in the open source world, need to care more about the folks who don't code. Those that deal with infrastructure, or people, or anything else that isn't just the code. We are fundamentally better off with them in our communities.
So in his honor, go drink some tea, be a giant grump, and remind folks that "No. is a complete sentence".
In the words of Terry Pratchett:
GNU James "Meflin" Lopeman
Share around, because I think this is bigger than just him, but I think everyone needs to hear what he at least meant to me.
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