From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Tai Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Tom Lord passing Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:31:41 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12596"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 20 01:32:34 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oDwhd-000359-Bu for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 01:32:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35400 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oDwhb-00039r-OZ for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:32:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oDwhQ-00039i-JA for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:32:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-io1-xd33.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::d33]:38687) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oDwhP-0004DJ-0F for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:32:20 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-io1-xd33.google.com with SMTP id e69so5584950iof.5 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:32:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=atai-org.20210112.gappssmtp.com; s=20210112; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=kh5mNuLjMBiNQmZ/6UnjzS86YrAEOWu4EKmgZGBapVI=; b=Szwsxenzd+/3/1B/8BaDtCm6hldbfQC0RZlSQEK012Zt20ggVziByx1l5f7FPojCFI br4Pd1/GDmS4TKkUA03x0Stsy3L0IO30h3WYAUQFr2O+CQvVRuhuiasoas8G9beVHXmP ar9Jp+xLw0kELvRKOZgIa1lUzfOhAYV+DXrLEnUKc82BU7vwmUHkpGTSWCfIS/3TkGBM sfMOqh10r/eB1CqGZ+OxRpAIuQMsHMi6ya6Cvnam9BAy+HAP+DErGgCmcqJI/91eLzgW iDEX+TkOI9vQWB4/6Wkms1A841gjtLhCsxE0zzzJeb0BxUOGDElj2Ethaw0uBP7laV9s GAMA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=kh5mNuLjMBiNQmZ/6UnjzS86YrAEOWu4EKmgZGBapVI=; b=oVo5ALco2GO5qRlOUhUNG4WHPzA+8ul4Aptmgkgq6OytQ6kfIrgNfCKNmcoMnFvIvW xCMoDI79cJNWG4AcSCv5LtMdQdrb8tqKsX2bkt1OvGkvNzWsKKo4yWJyAnAujfckrDVX to7DxX2CB7uy1S1JJ1tl6/Qf69eGT7kgDPrgp2DXkeaYQv8pBOOSBn5woHk1YWQWzfnA 47GEEUNyicF0d7T9CnsMhccggtiPvwQ7+YtzkpNdRZ6FuozgVMOGd3tHDvC9rU19NreW lNM8+w4CmWWLm2rt3sSgo/WCojUyKjgrVqfeJOQuRr/eNKYcKNTYNApMrMTEBcC0pid9 li6w== X-Gm-Message-State: AJIora/KauFgVJti/ZHNM2Je26NLDEc/KRBtovME/YedvuK8+9kjVUKJ 1mhBff/8UtbGPgr/DWdhJsH+9eoSvkDid4oOWo6cXErvo58= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGRyM1soy9zYwpHV/mmQzglwJU9ry07NfiCKNZHz4OabSDwT7EL6knYx8Z5nX7MBmIjTry1CjVRPYWhzR/8W61LlckE= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6638:3801:b0:341:68f6:932 with SMTP id i1-20020a056638380100b0034168f60932mr7355034jav.71.1658273537532; Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::d33; envelope-from=lichengtai@gmail.com; helo=mail-io1-xd33.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.devel:21260 Archived-At: Thomas Lord was an early (or the first?) maintainer of guile from https://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2022-06-26/article/49837 Obituaries Thomas Lord 1966-2022 Trina Pundurs Monday June 27, 2022 - 05:21:00 PM Thomas Lord was born April 26, 1966 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he lived until the age of 10 when his family relocated to western Massachusetts. He graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 1984. He attended Johns Hopkins University and Carnegie Mellon University, and in 1987 began his career as a software engineer at Carnegie Mellon, working on the Andrew Project. During this time he became interested in the free software movement (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html) and thereafter dedicated himself to developing and supporting free software (aka libre software or open source). He worked as an employee of the Free Software Foundation, developing for the GNU Project, for several years in the early 1990s. In 1995 he first moved to Berkeley and began spending time in People=E2=80= =99s Park, a place and a society that held great meaning for him. He returned to Pittsburgh PA in 1998, then came back to the Bay Area in 2001 and relocated permanently to Berkeley in 2004. In 2007 he married Trina Pundurs, his life partner since 1992. Upon settling in Berkeley, he began engaging with city politics and policymaking. His interest led him to contribute to the Berkeley Daily Planet, and his work with Planet editor Becky O=E2=80=99Malley drew him further into city and regional issues, especially housing, displacement, and homelessness. In 2016 he was appointed by then-Councilmember Cheryl Davila to serve on the City Housing Advisory Commission. In 2018 he was profoundly moved by a news report about scientists weeping in the aisles at COP 24, where the IPCC presented its Special Report on the impact of global warming of 1.5=C2=B0 C (=E2=80=9CIPCC SR15= =E2=80=9D). Upon studying SR15, and following the work of Greta Thunberg, he became a tireless advocate of speaking the truth about the climate emergency and treating it as an actual emergency. In addition to his climate and housing activism, he spent several years volunteering with students at Longfellow Middle School as part of the Writer Coach Connection program. He died unexpectedly this week of a massive brain hemorrhage. Thomas is survived by his wife Trina Pundurs, mother Luanna Pierannunzi, uncle Christopher Lord, aunt Sharlene Jones, and many cousins and extended family.