Re: Shawn Pearce has died

> Chris, also on this email thread, is working on putting together some kind
> of video of Shawn's colleagues at Google talking about working with him.
> Part of the thought is that his boys are going to want to know what there
> dad was like at some point later in their lives and it would be nice to
> capture the thoughts of the people who knew Shawn.
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> Chris: if people outside of Google wanted to include videos about what it
> was like knowing and working with Shawn, how could we do it?  Is there
> guidance (length?  format?)?  Deliver as an attachment over email to you?
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> Thx,
> Scott
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> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 9:24 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 04:17:32PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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>> > They don't want any flowers sent over to them, but I wonder if we
>> > couldn't make some sort of tribute to Shawn at the upcoming developer
>> > meeting in Barcelona (and find some way to have remote people contribute
>> > to it).
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>> > E.g. a short video/audio of different people in the dev community
>> > sharing some story about Shawn, or a written list of memories
>> > contributed by and signed by various people.
>> >
>> > I don't know what that would look like exactly, but I think it would be
>> > a good thing for his family and especially for his children when they're
>> > grown to remember him by, to know that their father contributed to these
>> > software projects with people all over the world, and that all these
>> > people appreciated his work and him personally.
>>
>> I like this direction (though like you, I'm not sure exactly what it
>> should look like). I'm not sure what kind of video presence GitHub will
>> have at the contrib summit, but I'll see about getting some interview
>> footage there.
>>
>> Doing something written, though, may make it easier for remote people to
>> collaborate.
>>
>> -Peff
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