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<itemizedlist xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
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<para>&a.alexbl.email; (2006 - 2011; RIP 2012)</para>
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<para>
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<link xlink:href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=159801494">Alexander</link>
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was best known as a major contributor to &os;'s <application>Python</application> ports
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and a founding member of &a.python; as well as his work on
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<application>XMMS2</application>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.jb.email; (1997 - 2009; RIP 2009)</para>
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<para>
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<link xlink:href="http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/In+Memoriam">John</link>
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made major contributions to FreeBSD, the best known of which
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is the import of the &man.dtrace.1; code. John's unique sense
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of humor and plain-spokenness either ruffled feathers or
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made him quick friends. At the end of his life, he had
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moved to a rural area and was attempting to live with
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as minimal impact to the planet as possible, while at
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the same time still working in the high-tech area.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.jmz.email; (1994 - 2009; RIP 2009)</para>
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<para>
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<link xlink:href="http://www.obs-besancon.fr/article.php3?id_article=323">Jean-Marc</link>
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was an astrophysicist who made important contributions to the modeling
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of the atmospheres of both planets and comets at
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<link xlink:href="http://www.obs-besancon.fr/">l'Observatoire de Besançon</link>
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in Besançon, France. While there, he participated in the
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conception and construction of the Vega tricanal spectrometer
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that studied Halley's Comet. He had also been a long-time
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contributor to FreeBSD.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.itojun.email; (1997 - 2001; RIP 2008)</para>
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<para>Known to everyone as
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<link xlink:href="http://astralblue.livejournal.com/350702.html">itojun</link>,
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Jun-ichiro Hagino was a core researcher at the
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<link xlink:href="http://www.kame.net/">KAME Project</link>,
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which aimed to provide IPv6 and IPsec technology in freely
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redistributable form. Much of this code was incorporated
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into FreeBSD. Without his efforts, the state of IPv6 on the
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Internet would be much different.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.cg.email; (1999 - 2005; RIP 2005)</para>
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<para>
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<link xlink:href="http://www.dbsi.org/cam/">Cameron</link>
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was a unique individual who contributed to the project
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despite serious physical disabilities. He was responsible
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for a complete rewrite of our sound system during the
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late 1990s. Many of those who corresponded with him had
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no idea of his limited mobility, due to his cheerful
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spirit and willingness to help others.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.alane.email; (2002 - 2003; RIP 2003)</para>
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<para>
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<link xlink:href="http://freebsd.kde.org/memoriam/alane.php">Alan</link>
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was a major contributor to the KDE on FreeBSD group. In addition,
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he maintained many other difficult and time-consuming ports such
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as <application>autoconf</application>,
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<application>CUPS</application>, and <application>python</application>.
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Alan's path was not an easy one but his passion for FreeBSD, and
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dedication to programming excellence, won him many friends.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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