N'oir'in and I

Today I learned of some of the worst kind of news, my friend and a valuable contributor to the great open source community N'oir'in Plunkett passed away. They (this is their preferred pronoun per their twitter profile) was well regarded in the open source community for contributions.

I had known them for about four years now, having met them at OSCON and seen them regularly at other events. They were always great to have a discussion with and learn from and they always had a smile on their face.

It is very sad to lose them as they demonstrated an unmatchable passion and dedication to open source and community and surely many of us will spend many days, weeks and months reflecting on the sadness of this loss.

Other posts about them:

https://adainitiative.org/2015/07/remembering-noirin-plunkett/
http://www.apache.org/memorials/noirin.html
http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2015/07/29/0

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BenjaminKerensaDotComMozilla/~3/evn_KeA8uBk/noirin-plunkett-remembering-them