Ge (Greg) van Geldorp

[Paul Vriens]

Hi,

The sad news reached me two days ago that Ge (Greg) van Geldorp passed 
away. Please find below the mail from his brother.

I've briefly talked to Jeremy and Alexandre about this loss and the idea 
came up to have something on the winehq frontpage for a while. Jeremey 
also mentioned to mark Greg's life and contributions to Wine at Wineconf 
this year. Alexandre mentioned potentially hosting the winetestbot at 
codeweavers in the future. Both the frontpage remembrance and the 
potential hosting somewhere else has been discussed by me and Arno and 
will not be an issue.

Cheers,

Paul.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	RE: Ge van Geldorp
Date: 	Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:05:46 +0200
From: 	Erven Gé van Geldorp 
To: 	'Paul Vriens'

Hi all,

My name is Arno van Geldorp. I'm the brother of Gé (Greg) van Geldorp. 
I'm very sorry that I have to inform you that Greg has passed away 
almost 3 weeks ago. 2 Months earlier he was diagnosed with cancer in a 
very aggressive form.

I know he made his contribution to the Wine project. And that one of 
them is the WineTestBot. His passing away went so fast that he didn't 
have the time to inform me all about it. What he did ask me is to make 
sure that the server where the WineTestBot is running on will be hosted 
for at least 2 more years. So we will take care of that. But I don't 
know if anyone took over the administration off the server.

If anyone took over the administration from Greg could you please 
contact me at erven.van.geldorp at gmail.com

Kind regards,

Arno van Geldorp

[Wolfram Sang]

> The sad news reached me two days ago that Ge (Greg) van Geldorp passed
> away. Please find below the mail from his brother.

This is sad news indeed. The testbot he created is tremendously useful 
and a great achievement. He also was always helpful and nice when I 
asked him about it. His presence will be missed, yet he will be 
remembered. Condolences to his family and friends.

Wolfram

[Austin English]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 16:37, Wolfram Sang  wrote:
> > The sad news reached me two days ago that Ge (Greg) van Geldorp passed
> > away. Please find below the mail from his brother.
>
> This is sad news indeed. The testbot he created is tremendously useful and a
> great achievement. He also was always helpful and nice when I asked him
> about it. His presence will be missed, yet he will be remembered.
> Condolences to his family and friends.

My condolences to his family and friends as well. His contributions
were greatly appreciated and won't be forgotten.

As a more permanent memorial, perhaps we could dedicate the next
(stable) Wine release to his memory.

[James McKenzie]

On 6/10/11 2:59 PM, Austin English wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 16:37, Wolfram Sang  wrote:
> > > The sad news reached me two days ago that Ge (Greg) van Geldorp passed
> > > away. Please find below the mail from his brother.
> >
> > This is sad news indeed. The testbot he created is tremendously useful and a
> > great achievement. He also was always helpful and nice when I asked him
> > about it. His presence will be missed, yet he will be remembered.
> > Condolences to his family and friends.
>
> My condolences to his family and friends as well. His contributions
> were greatly appreciated and won't be forgotten.
>
> As a more permanent memorial, perhaps we could dedicate the next
> (stable) Wine release to his memory.

Ge's efforts with VMWare got all of the Wine Developers access for no 
cost to VMWare Fusion and his construction and maintenance of the 
Testbot system are appreciated by all the developers who use it.  
Without it, we would not be where we are today in the level and depth of 
Wine development and conformance testing.

My condolences to his family, his friends and those in the Wine 
community that met him, either in person or 'over the wire'.  His 
presence here will be missed and is one to be emulated.

James McKenzie

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Sad news indeed. His work on getting winetestbot integrated into wine was amazing. He was also nice every time I talked to him.

I'll miss him. Hierbij mijn steunbetuiging aan zijn nabestaanden.

~Maarten

[Roderick Colenbrander]

I'm sad to hear that Ge has passed away. He was really a nice guy and
his contributions to Wine have been very helpful.

We zullen hem missen.

Roderick

[Scott Ritchie]

On 06/10/2011 01:01 PM, Paul Vriens wrote:
> My name is Arno van Geldorp. I’m the brother of Gé (Greg) van Geldorp.
> I’m very sorry that I have to inform you that Greg has passed away
> almost 3 weeks ago. 2 Months earlier he was diagnosed with cancer in a
> very aggressive form.
>
> I know he made his contribution to the Wine project. And that one of
> them is the WineTestBot. His passing away went so fast that he didn’t
> have the time to inform me all about it. What he did ask me is to make
> sure that the server where the WineTestBot is running on will be hosted
> for at least 2 more years. So we will take care of that. But I don’t
> know if anyone took over the administration off the server.

I have the passwords, and I gave them to Maarten as well.  We'll talk
about this when I can.

In tragic irony, I'm dealing with a father dying of very late stage
cancer at the moment, so forgive me if I'm slow for a bit.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

[James McKenzie]

On 6/11/11 6:18 AM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> In tragic irony, I'm dealing with a father dying of very late stage
> cancer at the moment, so forgive me if I'm slow for a bit.

First, how sad to read this about your father.  Hopefully, he is 
receiving the best of care and is in little or no pain.
Second, thank you for taking over the testbot (or at least appearing to 
do so, my apologies if this is incorrect.)  It will take more than one 
person to fill Ge's shoes for providing the testbot system and for his 
actions to get our efforts recognized in the Virtual community.

Very respectfully,

James McKenzie

[Erich Hoover]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:47 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> ...  It will take more than one person to fill Ge's shoes for providing the
> testbot system and for his actions to get our efforts recognized in the
> Virtual community.

I think we should modify the testbot page to have a little memorial
message.  If anything, I know that I can say that my contributions to the
animated cursor support are a direct result of the availability of the
testbot.  Without the testbot I doubt I'd have ever figured out exactly how
GetCursorFrameInfo works.  I know it'd been a while since this conversation
got started, but I've been a bit busy and I thought this idea was worth
mentioning.

Erich Hoover
[e-mail]

[Tom Wickline]

Hello,

Alexandre, is there the possibility we/you could have a release in Greg's
memory?

Cheers,
Tom

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Erich Hoover  wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:47 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> > ...  It will take more than one person to fill Ge's shoes for providing
> > the testbot system and for his actions to get our efforts recognized in the
> > Virtual community.
>
> I think we should modify the testbot page to have a little memorial
> message.  If anything, I know that I can say that my contributions to the
> animated cursor support are a direct result of the availability of the
> testbot.  Without the testbot I doubt I'd have ever figured out exactly how
> GetCursorFrameInfo works.  I know it'd been a while since this conversation
> got started, but I've been a bit busy and I thought this idea was worth
> mentioning.
>
> Erich Hoover
> [e-mail]

[Tom Wickline]

Hi,

I would like to give my condolences to the family and his many friends.

Tom

2011/6/11 Paul Vriens
> Hi,
>
> The sad news reached me two days ago that Ge (Greg) van Geldorp passed
> away. Please find below the mail from his brother.
>
> I've briefly talked to Jeremy and Alexandre about this loss and the idea
> came up to have something on the winehq frontpage for a while. Jeremey also
> mentioned to mark Greg's life and contributions to Wine at Wineconf this
> year. Alexandre mentioned potentially hosting the winetestbot at codeweavers
> in the future. Both the frontpage remembrance and the potential hosting
> somewhere else has been discussed by me and Arno and will not be an issue.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> Hi all,
>
> My name is Arno van Geldorp. I’m the brother of Gé (Greg) van Geldorp. I’m
> very sorry that I have to inform you that Greg has passed away almost 3
> weeks ago. 2 Months earlier he was diagnosed with cancer in a very
> aggressive form.
>
> I know he made his contribution to the Wine project. And that one of them
> is the WineTestBot. His passing away went so fast that he didn’t have the
> time to inform me all about it. What he did ask me is to make sure that the
> server where the WineTestBot is running on will be hosted for at least 2
> more years. So we will take care of that. But I don’t know if anyone took
> over the administration off the server.
>
> If anyone took over the administration from Greg could you please contact
> me at erven.van.geldorp at gmail.com
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Arno van Geldorp