| [babel-dev] Sad news |
I am forwarding this message from Pradeep Balachandran:
I have a sad news to share.
Kit Lo, Technical Lead for IBM Eclipse SDK, based out of IBM RTP
lab, passed away on Saturday, Feb 26th. He was on a routine run
on Saturday and collapsed on the way. Kit has been with IBM for
32+ years, working in various roles and different teams. In the
past decade, Kit was the lead for Translation / Globalization
efforts across various products. About 5 years ago, Kit took up
the IES Technical Lead role. Kit was a very hard worker,
continuous learner and always willing to go the extra mile to
help those in need. Kit was also very active in Eclipse Open
Source Community. He was the co-lead for Eclipse Babel project
(community driven translation of strings in Eclipse
distribution) and in the past year, he also took up the
additional role of Eclipse IDE Release Engineer.
We in the Eclipse team in IBM, are still trying to come to terms
with the fact that Kit is no longer with us. Kit was a great
friend, mentor and guide for those who worked closely with him.
We are lucky to have worked with him. Kit will be sorely missed.
Pradeep
I've been working with Kit here at the Babel project since its beginnings, in 2007. He was the project lead and although this project has not had active development in a very long time, Kit ensured new language packs were released for every new Eclipse version.
If you'd like to share your memorial for Kit, you can do so on the GitLab memorials page:
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/memorials
You are missed, Kit. Thank you for
everything you've done.
Denis