Sad news: Our developer Good Guy has passed away
It is with dismay and sadness that I have to announce this devastating news that our highly esteemed developer W.P. Morrow aka Good Guy died in a traffic accident last Monday at the age of 66. Bill, as he also called in private, was as so often in his free time, out for sports riding his bicycle when he was hit by a truck. He was taken to hospital, but unfortunately he succumbed to his severe injuries. This news is shocking and makes me speechless, although I find it extremely difficult to find words due to my sadness, I would like to remember him at this point. A look back shows that, together with Phyllis, he has pushed this project forward with great passion, dedication and commitment. His ingenuity and creative solutions were always an enrichment for this project. He was never too comfortable to tackle even small problems and improvements to make the life of the users easier. You could tell that he enjoyed programming a lot. He enjoyed improving Cinelerra-GG and interacting with the community. He has acted selflessly and for the good of all, and through his commitment to free and open software, he has made this world a bit freer and better. The gap he leaves behind is huge and filling it will be hard. Thanks for everything dear Bill. It was a great honor and pleasure to work with you. You will be remembered. We will miss you. Rest in peace. I express my condolences to Phyllis, his family and friends. Sam P.S.: Phyllis has expressed the wish to resume work on the project at a later date, currently she needs some time off, and to participate in the documentation and correspondence as usual. I will continue to support this project as before. The monthly releases cannot be offered in the same way at the moment. Minor changes and improvements will take place from time to time. We are open for new developers and hope for your support.
Although I have never met or spoken with W.P. Morrow or Phyllis, over the years his (their) generosity and openness to all of us had made me want to consider them almost as friends, certainly more than just contacts. Computers and the Internet have just lost a little bit of their charm. Devastating. Pierre Le 20-11-09 à 14 h 57, Sam via Cin a écrit :
It is with dismay and sadness that I have to announce this devastating news that our highly esteemed developer W.P. Morrow aka Good Guy died in a traffic accident last Monday at the age of 66. Bill, as he also called in private, was as so often in his free time, out for sports riding his bicycle when he was hit by a truck. He was taken to hospital, but unfortunately he succumbed to his severe injuries.
This news is shocking and makes me speechless, although I find it extremely difficult to find words due to my sadness, I would like to remember him at this point.
A look back shows that, together with Phyllis, he has pushed this project forward with great passion, dedication and commitment. His ingenuity and creative solutions were always an enrichment for this project. He was never too comfortable to tackle even small problems and improvements to make the life of the users easier. You could tell that he enjoyed programming a lot. He enjoyed improving Cinelerra-GG and interacting with the community. He has acted selflessly and for the good of all, and through his commitment to free and open software, he has made this world a bit freer and better.
The gap he leaves behind is huge and filling it will be hard.
Thanks for everything dear Bill. It was a great honor and pleasure to work with you. You will be remembered. We will miss you. Rest in peace.
I express my condolences to Phyllis, his family and friends.
Sam
P.S.: Phyllis has expressed the wish to resume work on the project at a later date, currently she needs some time off, and to participate in the documentation and correspondence as usual. I will continue to support this project as before. The monthly releases cannot be offered in the same way at the moment. Minor changes and improvements will take place from time to time. We are open for new developers and hope for your support.
Good Guy, I'm so thankful for what you have done for Cinelerra-GG users. You talked directly to us, or through Phyllis. You will be remembered and deeply missed. Rest in peace. My condolences here to Phyllis and the family. Terje
I am devastated by this news. My condolences to Phyllis and family, I wish her strength in dealing with this loss. GG will be much missed, his support and dedication have set an example. And I am grateful for all he did to Cinelerra. He and Phyllis published over 50 monthly releases sind 2016. He was always willing to explain how things worked. MatN
I haven't been active in the community for a while, but I follow the project closely and read the mailinglist everyday. Reading this news made me speechless. Although I never met him I want to say thank you Good Guy, for your great efforts not just for Cinelerra but also for creating this cozy community, your username fit you perfectly. Today the world lost a great person. My condolences go to Phyllis and the rest of the family, Marco aka WPFIlmmaker.
What a tragedy. A very sad day indeed ! All my thoughts to Phyllis and family Ed Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 8:57, Sam via Cin<[email protected]> wrote: It is with dismay and sadness that I have to announce this devastating news that our highly esteemed developer W.P. Morrow aka Good Guy died in a traffic accident last Monday at the age of 66. Bill, as he also called in private, was as so often in his free time, out for sports riding his bicycle when he was hit by a truck. He was taken to hospital, but unfortunately he succumbed to his severe injuries. This news is shocking and makes me speechless, although I find it extremely difficult to find words due to my sadness, I would like to remember him at this point. A look back shows that, together with Phyllis, he has pushed this project forward with great passion, dedication and commitment. His ingenuity and creative solutions were always an enrichment for this project. He was never too comfortable to tackle even small problems and improvements to make the life of the users easier. You could tell that he enjoyed programming a lot. He enjoyed improving Cinelerra-GG and interacting with the community. He has acted selflessly and for the good of all, and through his commitment to free and open software, he has made this world a bit freer and better. The gap he leaves behind is huge and filling it will be hard. Thanks for everything dear Bill. It was a great honor and pleasure to work with you. You will be remembered. We will miss you. Rest in peace. I express my condolences to Phyllis, his family and friends. Sam P.S.: Phyllis has expressed the wish to resume work on the project at a later date, currently she needs some time off, and to participate in the documentation and correspondence as usual. I will continue to support this project as before. The monthly releases cannot be offered in the same way at the moment. Minor changes and improvements will take place from time to time. We are open for new developers and hope for your support. -- Cin mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin
В сообщении от Monday 09 November 2020 22:57:29 Sam via Cin написал(а):
It is with dismay and sadness that I have to announce this devastating news that our highly esteemed developer W.P. Morrow aka Good Guy died in a traffic accident last Monday at the age of 66. Bill, as he also called in private, was as so often in his free time, out for sports riding his bicycle when he was hit by a truck. He was taken to hospital, but unfortunately he succumbed to his severe injuries.
This news is shocking and makes me speechless, although I find it extremely difficult to find words due to my sadness, I would like to remember him at this point.
Oh shit, this is ..one of the worst kind of surprizes to get via email update .... I'm speechless too.
A look back shows that, together with Phyllis, he has pushed this project forward with great passion, dedication and commitment. His ingenuity and creative solutions were always an enrichment for this project. He was never too comfortable to tackle even small problems and improvements to make the life of the users easier. You could tell that he enjoyed programming a lot. He enjoyed improving Cinelerra-GG and interacting with the community. He has acted selflessly and for the good of all, and through his commitment to free and open software, he has made this world a bit freer and better.
Absolutely agree!
The gap he leaves behind is huge and filling it will be hard.
Thanks for everything dear Bill. It was a great honor and pleasure to work with you. You will be remembered. We will miss you. Rest in peace.
I express my condolences to Phyllis, his family and friends.
Sam
P.S.: Phyllis has expressed the wish to resume work on the project at a later date, currently she needs some time off, and to participate in the documentation and correspondence as usual. I will continue to support this project as before. The monthly releases cannot be offered in the same way at the moment. Minor changes and improvements will take place from time to time. We are open for new developers and hope for your support.
Thanks for staying up with us..
There are not words to say, it is a sad day. I, We, have lost a great guy. GG,... Bill, a great coder, a great heart, a great guy. Thank you so much, guy. R.I.P. I am so sorry. To Phyllis, a strong embrace. IgorBeg
Dear Phyllis, Please receive my love and wishes for courage, patience. And please imagine in theese sad days this community communing with you in their thoughts and minds, gratefull to a Guy who did Good to this world. Love and deepest condeleances. Haldun. Le 09/11/2020 à 20:57, Sam via Cin a écrit :
It is with dismay and sadness that I have to announce this devastating news that our highly esteemed developer W.P. Morrow aka Good Guy died in a traffic accident last Monday at the age of 66. Bill, as he also called in private, was as so often in his free time, out for sports riding his bicycle when he was hit by a truck. He was taken to hospital, but unfortunately he succumbed to his severe injuries.
This news is shocking and makes me speechless, although I find it extremely difficult to find words due to my sadness, I would like to remember him at this point.
A look back shows that, together with Phyllis, he has pushed this project forward with great passion, dedication and commitment. His ingenuity and creative solutions were always an enrichment for this project. He was never too comfortable to tackle even small problems and improvements to make the life of the users easier. You could tell that he enjoyed programming a lot. He enjoyed improving Cinelerra-GG and interacting with the community. He has acted selflessly and for the good of all, and through his commitment to free and open software, he has made this world a bit freer and better.
The gap he leaves behind is huge and filling it will be hard.
Thanks for everything dear Bill. It was a great honor and pleasure to work with you. You will be remembered. We will miss you. Rest in peace.
I express my condolences to Phyllis, his family and friends.
Sam
P.S.: Phyllis has expressed the wish to resume work on the project at a later date, currently she needs some time off, and to participate in the documentation and correspondence as usual. I will continue to support this project as before. The monthly releases cannot be offered in the same way at the moment. Minor changes and improvements will take place from time to time. We are open for new developers and hope for your support.
Rest in peace, dear Good Guy... We will definitely continue your work, although we understand that this loss is irreparable for us... 09.11.2020 22:57, Sam via Cin пишет:
It is with dismay and sadness that I have to announce this devastating news that our highly esteemed developer W.P. Morrow aka Good Guy died in a traffic accident last Monday at the age of 66. Bill, as he also called in private, was as so often in his free time, out for sports riding his bicycle when he was hit by a truck. He was taken to hospital, but unfortunately he succumbed to his severe injuries.
This news is shocking and makes me speechless, although I find it extremely difficult to find words due to my sadness, I would like to remember him at this point.
A look back shows that, together with Phyllis, he has pushed this project forward with great passion, dedication and commitment. His ingenuity and creative solutions were always an enrichment for this project. He was never too comfortable to tackle even small problems and improvements to make the life of the users easier. You could tell that he enjoyed programming a lot. He enjoyed improving Cinelerra-GG and interacting with the community. He has acted selflessly and for the good of all, and through his commitment to free and open software, he has made this world a bit freer and better.
The gap he leaves behind is huge and filling it will be hard.
Thanks for everything dear Bill. It was a great honor and pleasure to work with you. You will be remembered. We will miss you. Rest in peace.
I express my condolences to Phyllis, his family and friends.
Sam
P.S.: Phyllis has expressed the wish to resume work on the project at a later date, currently she needs some time off, and to participate in the documentation and correspondence as usual. I will continue to support this project as before. The monthly releases cannot be offered in the same way at the moment. Minor changes and improvements will take place from time to time. We are open for new developers and hope for your support.
I regret greatly such a loss and I wish eternal rest in God's hands. My condolence to the family and friends. El 09/11/2020 a las 16:57, Sam via Cin escribió:
It is with dismay and sadness that I have to announce this devastating news that our highly esteemed developer W.P. Morrow aka Good Guy died in a traffic accident last Monday at the age of 66. Bill, as he also called in private, was as so often in his free time, out for sports riding his bicycle when he was hit by a truck. He was taken to hospital, but unfortunately he succumbed to his severe injuries.
This news is shocking and makes me speechless, although I find it extremely difficult to find words due to my sadness, I would like to remember him at this point.
A look back shows that, together with Phyllis, he has pushed this project forward with great passion, dedication and commitment. His ingenuity and creative solutions were always an enrichment for this project. He was never too comfortable to tackle even small problems and improvements to make the life of the users easier. You could tell that he enjoyed programming a lot. He enjoyed improving Cinelerra-GG and interacting with the community. He has acted selflessly and for the good of all, and through his commitment to free and open software, he has made this world a bit freer and better.
The gap he leaves behind is huge and filling it will be hard.
Thanks for everything dear Bill. It was a great honor and pleasure to work with you. You will be remembered. We will miss you. Rest in peace.
I express my condolences to Phyllis, his family and friends.
Sam
P.S.: Phyllis has expressed the wish to resume work on the project at a later date, currently she needs some time off, and to participate in the documentation and correspondence as usual. I will continue to support this project as before. The monthly releases cannot be offered in the same way at the moment. Minor changes and improvements will take place from time to time. We are open for new developers and hope for your support.
Thanks to all of you for your kind words. The greatest thing to help me feel better is just for you to continue to use Cinelerra in whatever form you can as Bill always just wanted to make sure it lives on in the NLE world. Phyllis On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 12:58 PM Sam via Cin <[email protected]> wrote:
It is with dismay and sadness that I have to announce this devastating news that our highly esteemed developer W.P. Morrow aka Good Guy died in a traffic accident last Monday at the age of 66. Bill, as he also called in private, was as so often in his free time, out for sports riding his bicycle when he was hit by a truck. He was taken to hospital, but unfortunately he succumbed to his severe injuries.
This news is shocking and makes me speechless, although I find it extremely difficult to find words due to my sadness, I would like to remember him at this point.
A look back shows that, together with Phyllis, he has pushed this project forward with great passion, dedication and commitment. His ingenuity and creative solutions were always an enrichment for this project. He was never too comfortable to tackle even small problems and improvements to make the life of the users easier. You could tell that he enjoyed programming a lot. He enjoyed improving Cinelerra-GG and interacting with the community. He has acted selflessly and for the good of all, and through his commitment to free and open software, he has made this world a bit freer and better.
The gap he leaves behind is huge and filling it will be hard.
Thanks for everything dear Bill. It was a great honor and pleasure to work with you. You will be remembered. We will miss you. Rest in peace.
I express my condolences to Phyllis, his family and friends.
Sam
P.S.: Phyllis has expressed the wish to resume work on the project at a later date, currently she needs some time off, and to participate in the documentation and correspondence as usual. I will continue to support this project as before. The monthly releases cannot be offered in the same way at the moment. Minor changes and improvements will take place from time to time. We are open for new developers and hope for your support. -- Cin mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin
В сообщении от Tuesday 10 November 2020 18:33:02 Phyllis Smith via Cin написал(а):
Thanks to all of you for your kind words. The greatest thing to help me feel better is just for you to continue to use Cinelerra in whatever form you can as Bill always just wanted to make sure it lives on in the NLE world. Phyllis
Sorry for delay, and while I can't offer much - some of those 'pony stories' helped me back in 2017 when I had some loss too (not humans, but I was seriously hoping to help and save those two dolphins [0]... whole thing collapsed, and both dolphins died). So, I turned into thing I like most - reading. Some stories I found quite ..uneasy to read, but some are much lighter, and fun read (for me, at least). Just this night I looked for specific story and found it: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/131491/22/the-poly-little-pony/but-i-would-... Programmer goes to Hell. Things can't be worse! For Hell itself! Because, you know, both Heaven and Hell start from 'H', and with enought work and creativity ..... =============== "I want you to go forth and bring me all the books, articles and works of programming ever invented or created by Man. Make a big library for it all, maybe put it on the outskirts, beyond the water park, say. Make sure there are working examples of every computer, every system, every console and computing machine of the last... oh... fifty years or so. Make sure it all works, and include all the secret stuff from all the governments, too. Oh - and if, by some chance - there really are aliens out there, or super-advanced anything, get their programming books and machines too. Translated into English, of course. I want all the computer knowledge there is. Also math. I want a fully complete wing in the library devoted to math, especially physics, the study of randomness and chaos and... oh! Another wing filled with all human - or beyond - knowledge of neurology and the workings of the brain and mind. Hup to! Chop chop!" Pip looked shocked. Then he gave another evil smirk. "Indulging even a complex hobby is but a blink to the awesome horror of eternity, Madame. But, if that is what you desire to learn, then..." "No, Pip. Not me. You. Once you get everything in place, I want you to learn it all. Every bit of it. All of it. Completely. And do so as quickly as you can, because I have more for you to do after that." ========== You also might like other stories from same volume, but again, not all of them light reading. Feel free to disagree over details - fanfiction is about read-write culture, so even for your own enjoyment you can literally rewrite pieces. But I think you will like generic direction of thoughts from this author. [0] - https://savedolphins.net/zeus-the-dolphin-hunts-live-fish-for-the-first-time...
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 12:58 PM Sam via Cin <[email protected]> wrote:
It is with dismay and sadness that I have to announce this devastating news that our highly esteemed developer W.P. Morrow aka Good Guy died in a traffic accident last Monday at the age of 66. Bill, as he also called in private, was as so often in his free time, out for sports riding his bicycle when he was hit by a truck. He was taken to hospital, but unfortunately he succumbed to his severe injuries.
This news is shocking and makes me speechless, although I find it extremely difficult to find words due to my sadness, I would like to remember him at this point.
A look back shows that, together with Phyllis, he has pushed this project forward with great passion, dedication and commitment. His ingenuity and creative solutions were always an enrichment for this project. He was never too comfortable to tackle even small problems and improvements to make the life of the users easier. You could tell that he enjoyed programming a lot. He enjoyed improving Cinelerra-GG and interacting with the community. He has acted selflessly and for the good of all, and through his commitment to free and open software, he has made this world a bit freer and better.
The gap he leaves behind is huge and filling it will be hard.
Thanks for everything dear Bill. It was a great honor and pleasure to work with you. You will be remembered. We will miss you. Rest in peace.
I express my condolences to Phyllis, his family and friends.
Sam
P.S.: Phyllis has expressed the wish to resume work on the project at a later date, currently she needs some time off, and to participate in the documentation and correspondence as usual. I will continue to support this project as before. The monthly releases cannot be offered in the same way at the moment. Minor changes and improvements will take place from time to time. We are open for new developers and hope for your support. -- Cin mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin
Hi all. I wish all his loved ones my deepest condolences in these difficult times. May the good Lord keep him by his side. Big thanks for what he has done here. Olivier
That's a sad news. I express my deepest condolences to Phyllis, and family. Regards, Andrey
I just heard the sad, very sad news. I am frozen with tears in my eyes. I have no words to express this great loss. I'm so sorry my friend Phyllis. I want to say to all the people who love this project, Cinelerra GG, count on me for whatever it takes. I don't know how to code, but I'll continue with translations and bug reporting. A big hug and my sincere condolences to your family and loved ones. El mar., 10 nov. 2020 a las 19:43, Андрей Спицын via Cin (< [email protected]>) escribió:
That's a sad news. I express my deepest condolences to Phyllis, and family.
Regards, Andrey
-- Cin mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin
What a sad news! All my gratitude to GG for bringing us all wonderfull things in Cinelerra-GG and my deepest condolences to Phyllis and family.
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