{"id":1653,"date":"2011-03-01T23:31:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T03:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2011-12-13T19:42:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T23:42:23","slug":"adrian-hands-ian-page-hands-gnome-and-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2011\/03\/adrian-hands-ian-page-hands-gnome-and-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Hands, Ian Page Hands, Gnome, and Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this go by on Twitter but it is too profound a story to let scroll off my screen so I am going to make sure I remember it in this blog post.  <\/p>\n<p>Adrian Hands was a contributor to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnome.org\/\" target=\"_new\">Gnome<\/a> open source Linux Desktop project.  Adrian died of  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis\" target=\"_new\">ALS<\/a> (Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease) on February 2, 2011 while in India getting treatment.<\/p>\n<p>His last patch to the Gnome was to add a <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=78514\" target=\"_new\">copy image to clipboard and copy path to clipboard functionality<\/a> to Gnome.  He wrote the patch by typing it in using a morse code device he operated with his legs as he could no longer use a keyboard because of his disease.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian finished the patch and submitted it on January 30, 2011, three days before he died.<\/p>\n<p>His last communication with his son Ian Page Hands was on January 30, 2011 where they exchanged E-mail about how proud they were about the patch.<\/p>\n<p>My words in this blog post are so insufficient to describe this.  Please go and read Ian&#8217;s note to the Gnome community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=78514#c19\" target=\"_new\">https:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=78514#c19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this go by on Twitter but it is too profound a story to let scroll off my screen so I am going to make sure I remember it in this blog post. Adrian Hands was a contributor to the Gnome open source Linux Desktop project. Adrian died of ALS (Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease) on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}