tir, 29 08 2006 kl. 00:46 -0500, skrev Arthur Pemberton:

Hi guys,

I apologize ahead of time for the offtopic nature of this thread, and if desired, I will cease any continuation. Threads over on fedora-extras-list have brought my attention to the e-dissappearance of one "Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams".

This guy has helped me out many times over of #fedora, and was always online, despite me changing time zone twice - to the point where I asked if he was a bot. He seemed to have also had a large load in package maintaince. Fedora being partly about the community, I have to ask: does anyone know what happened to this guy? His online presence seems to have simply ceased as of May-2006. I searched Gmail for emails from him, the last was in May. His blog (http://www.ivazquez.net) seems also to have gone quiet as of May.

Just felt that the guy has helped me enough to at least care if he suddenly died or something.

This is the kind of love that makes Fedora a pleasure.

Here's to hoping for the best.

- David Nielsen

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 09:17 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:52:53AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:

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emails from him, the last was in May. His blog (http://www.ivazquez.net) seems also to have gone quiet as of May.

I agree. Any Canadians living near brampton, ONT who could maybe hunt him down a bit?

There's a phone number in the whois info for the blog site. I don't feel like I know him personally well enough to be comfortable calling, but maybe someone (either who knows him better, or who is more extroverted) would like to try?

I called. The number is not in service.

-sv

On 8/29/06, seth vidal skvidal@linux.duke.edu wrote:

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 09:17 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:

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On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:52:53AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:

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emails from him, the last was in May. His blog (http://www.ivazquez.net) seems also to have gone quiet as of May.

I agree. Any Canadians living near brampton, ONT who could maybe hunt him down a bit?

There's a phone number in the whois info for the blog site. I don't feel like I know him personally well enough to be comfortable calling, but maybe someone (either who knows him better, or who is more extroverted) would like to try?

I called. The number is not in service.

-sv

Strange!

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:24:17 -0400, Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org wrote:

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I called. The number is not in service.

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Strange!

Well, it could be just an intentionally bad data for the whois database.

It's possible, although public records sites return the same number and address. Going any further requires a visit. I am sure that local postmaster or the property owner would notice something amiss.

-- Pete

Arthur Pemberton wrote:

Hi guys,

I apologize ahead of time for the offtopic nature of this thread, and if desired, I will cease any continuation. Threads over on fedora-extras-list have brought my attention to the e-dissappearance of one "Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams".

This guy has helped me out many times over of #fedora, and was always online, despite me changing time zone twice - to the point where I asked if he was a bot. He seemed to have also had a large load in package maintaince. Fedora being partly about the community, I have to ask: does anyone know what happened to this guy? His online presence seems to have simply ceased as of May-2006. I searched Gmail for emails from him, the last was in May. His blog (http://www.ivazquez.net) seems also to have gone quiet as of May.

Just felt that the guy has helped me enough to at least care if he suddenly died or something.

A grep of my IRC logs shows that he was in IRC at least until:

FreeNode (formerly OpenProjects.net)-#fedora-x.log:Apr 24 12:39:27 <-- ignacio (n=ivazquez@fedora/ignacio) has left #fedora-x

FreeNode (formerly OpenProjects.net)-#fedora-devel.log:Jun 23 01:18:04 --> ignacio (n=ivazquez@fedora/ignacio) has joined #fedora-devel

Jun 25 02:28:25 <-- ignacio (n=ivazquez@fedora/ignacio) has left ##fedora-join-instructions

FreeNode (formerly OpenProjects.net)-#fedora-triage.log:Jun 25 01:48:23 --> ignacio (n=ivazquez@fedora/ignacio) has joined #fedora-triage

All dates are in 2006.

Haven't seen him anywhere since. Googling for his name doesn't appear to show anything more recent either.

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 00:46, "Arthur Pemberton" pemboa@gmail.com wrote:

I apologize ahead of time for the offtopic nature of this thread, and if desired, I will cease any continuation. Threads over on fedora-extras-list have brought my attention to the e-dissappearance of one "Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams".

This guy has helped me out many times over of #fedora, and was always online, despite me changing time zone twice - to the point where I asked if he was a bot. He seemed to have also had a large load in package maintaince. Fedora being partly about the community, I have to ask: does anyone know what happened to this guy? His online presence seems to have simply ceased as of May-2006. I searched Gmail for emails from him, the last was in May. His blog (http://www.ivazquez.net) seems also to have gone quiet as of May.

Just felt that the guy has helped me enough to at least care if he suddenly died or something.

I went looking for news from the area of any accidents and checked the obituaries to uncover any bad news, but I didn't find anything. I certainly hope he is doing well.

On 8/29/06, Arthur Pemberton pemboa@gmail.com wrote:

Hi guys,

I apologize ahead of time for the offtopic nature of this thread, and if desired, I will cease any continuation. Threads over on fedora-extras-list have brought my attention to the e-dissappearance of one "Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams".

This guy has helped me out many times over of #fedora, and was always online, despite me changing time zone twice - to the point where I asked if he was a bot. He seemed to have also had a large load in package maintaince. Fedora being partly about the community, I have to ask: does anyone know what happened to this guy? His online presence seems to have simply ceased as of May-2006. I searched Gmail for emails from him, the last was in May. His blog (http://www.ivazquez.net) seems also to have gone quiet as of May.

Just felt that the guy has helped me enough to at least care if he suddenly died or something.

Peace.

-- To be updated...

Is it safe to say that this guy has gone to a better place? Even his domain has expired now.

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 11:42 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

On 12/22/06, Arthur Pemberton pemboa@gmail.com wrote:

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Is it safe to say that this guy has gone to a better place? Even his domain has expired now.

I've done some investigative work, but I'm afraid unless he announces himself, we won't be able to find anything out.

I've used the whitepages to look up his last known address, and then called a few neighbours on the same street. It seems that the house was owned by someone else, who was renting out an apartment -- I'm guessing Ignacio was their tenant. According to one of the neighbours, earlier this year the house went for sale, and the old owner moved elsewhere -- Ignacio probably also had to move at that point.

Sadly, that's where the trail ends. I called the Bampton police department, but they have no records for Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, so if anything happened to him, it must have happened outside of Brampton. I guess we can call the Toronto police department, but I doubt they would be as helpful as Brampton's.

There you have it, folks. Let's hope he's just been busy with life, since we have no reason to believe otherwise.

Icon, Thank you for looking into it as much as you did. It's appreciated.

-sv

Le vendredi 22 décembre 2006 17:42, Konstantin Ryabitsev a écrit :

There you have it, folks. Let's hope he's just been busy with life, since we have no reason to believe otherwise.

Unfortuntely, I'm not agree with you... As Ignacio was a big contributor in Fedora, I think that if he was busy in life, he would have told us "I'm busy and I can't contribute any more for the moment" and he disappeared without telling us anything. So, I think we have to expect the worst... Sorry.

If someboby could investigate far....

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 11:42 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

On 12/22/06, Arthur Pemberton pemboa@gmail.com wrote:

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Is it safe to say that this guy has gone to a better place? Even his domain has expired now.

I've done some investigative work, but I'm afraid unless he announces himself, we won't be able to find anything out.

I've used the whitepages to look up his last known address, and then called a few neighbours on the same street. It seems that the house was owned by someone else, who was renting out an apartment -- I'm guessing Ignacio was their tenant. According to one of the neighbours, earlier this year the house went for sale, and the old owner moved elsewhere -- Ignacio probably also had to move at that point.

Sadly, that's where the trail ends. I called the Bampton police department, but they have no records for Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, so if anything happened to him, it must have happened outside of Brampton. I guess we can call the Toronto police department, but I doubt they would be as helpful as Brampton's.

There you have it, folks. Let's hope he's just been busy with life, since we have no reason to believe otherwise.

Cheers,

Konstantin Ryabitsev Montréal, Québec

Has anyone tried to snail mail his last known mailing address? He might be having his mail forwarded. Just a thought.

Jon

Jon Nettleton wrote:

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 11:42 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

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On 12/22/06, Arthur Pemberton pemboa@gmail.com wrote:

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Is it safe to say that this guy has gone to a better place? Even his domain has expired now.

I've done some investigative work, but I'm afraid unless he announces himself, we won't be able to find anything out.

I've used the whitepages to look up his last known address, and then called a few neighbours on the same street. It seems that the house was owned by someone else, who was renting out an apartment -- I'm guessing Ignacio was their tenant. According to one of the neighbours, earlier this year the house went for sale, and the old owner moved elsewhere -- Ignacio probably also had to move at that point.

Sadly, that's where the trail ends. I called the Bampton police department, but they have no records for Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, so if anything happened to him, it must have happened outside of Brampton. I guess we can call the Toronto police department, but I doubt they would be as helpful as Brampton's.

There you have it, folks. Let's hope he's just been busy with life, since we have no reason to believe otherwise.

Cheers,

Konstantin Ryabitsev Montréal, Québec

Has anyone tried to snail mail his last known mailing address? He might be having his mail forwarded. Just a thought.

I found a secondary mail address for him: ignacio@fastmail.ca I sent him an email just a few minutes ago. If I hear anything back, or it bounces, I'll pass along the info.