Re: Shawn Pearce has died

I guess your email server doesn't like HTML messages... here's the plain text:

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.

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?

Thx,
Scott

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Scott Gasch [off-list ref] wrote:

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.

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?

Thx,
Scott




On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 9:24 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 04:17:32PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

quoted

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).

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