{"id":3120,"date":"2016-10-03T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2016-10-03T15:27:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T15:27:58","slug":"our-warm-thanks-to-a-long-time-contributor-and-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2016\/10\/03\/our-warm-thanks-to-a-long-time-contributor-and-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Our warm thanks to a long time contributor and friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vistosofh.com\/sitemaker\/memsol_data\/205\/1854641\/1854641_profile_pic.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Spuhler\" width=\"250\" height=\"286\" \/>It is with a heavy heart that we address our warmest thanks to our friend Thomas Spuhler for his Mandriva and Mageia contributions over the last decade. After fighting colon cancer for over a year, he finally had to surrender on Saturday September 17, 2016, at the age of 68. He leaves behind his beloved wife, sons and grandchildren, to whom our thoughts go in this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thomas had been contributing to Mageia, and Mandriva before that, since 2009 as a packager, and much earlier already partaking in email discussions and bug reports. His packaging interests were mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161003140043\/http:\/\/people.mageia.org\/u\/spuhler.html\">web and server-related components<\/a>, for which his contributions were invaluable. He had to step back from his Mageia responsibilities <a href=\"https:\/\/ml.mageia.org\/l\/arc\/dev\/2016-08\/msg00005.html\">in early August<\/a> due to his health condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was a lively fellow and we will sorely miss him. He was particularly fond of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oro_Valley,_Arizona\">Oro Valley<\/a> in Arizona, USA, where he had been living for the last 20 years, and which gave him his IRC nickname (Oro_Valley).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 2314px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Pusch_Ridge_from_Oro_Valley.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3120]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/ba\/Pusch_Ridge_from_Oro_Valley.jpg\" alt=\"Pusch Ridge from Oro Valley\" width=\"2304\" height=\"1728\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pusch Ridge from Oro Valley, \u00a9 CC BY-SA 3.0 Dan Huff<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Again, thanks a lot for everything Thomas, it was great having you around for all those years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with a heavy heart that we address our warmest thanks to our friend Thomas Spuhler for his Mandriva and Mageia contributions over the last decade. After fighting colon cancer for over a year, he finally had to surrender &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2016\/10\/03\/our-warm-thanks-to-a-long-time-contributor-and-friend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,124,30,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-mageia-2","category-packager","category-they-make-mageia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p159kA-Ok","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3126,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions\/3126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}