[ssug-malappuram] Re: [MES-FSUG] Jinesh KJ

  • From: Sajith N <sajith.nallithodi@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mes-fsug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:23:32 +0530

Very sad to hear the news. I did not know him personally, but heard a lot
about him from Raghesh, Sobin and all.

We should take up the work where he left off. Perhaps, that's the best way
to pay our last respects to a genius and visionary.

Warm Regards,
Sajith

On 29 September 2011 21:08, Musfir Mohammed <mohammed.musfir@xxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Though short lived he had set an example for the people around him. :(
>
> On 9/29/11, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is a mail i posted in another list . copying here
> >
> > "But the story of leukemia--the story of cancer--isn't the story of
> > doctors who struggle and survive, moving from institution to another.
> > It is the story of patients who struggle and survive, moving from on
> > embankment of illness to another. Resilience, inventiveness, and
> > survivorship--qualities often ascribed to great physicians--are
> > reflected qualities, emanating first from those who struggle with
> > illness and only then mirrored by those who treat them. If the history
> > of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because
> > their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of
> > their patients."
> > -- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of
> Cancer
> >
> > i am writing this with tears. he was a close friend, co-traveler, and
> > colleague in SMC
> >
> > Jinesh was a great fighter.  He fought with Leukemia by contributing
> > code . His all major contributions came from hospital bed , as commits
> > in PYPDFlib  and silpa project and editing of www-ml translations
> > shyam left out .  In addition he used to write articles in malayal.am on
> > various
> > topics . In FEC also he was quite active and contributed to various
> > discussion threads . He was one among SMC's  Google summer of code
> > candidates in 2007 . His contribution to standardization discussions
> > such as critique to International Domain names standard for malayalam,
> > Inscript 2 draft keyboard standard etc was also commendable.
> >
> > He was always available on google chat when he is in the intervals
> > between treatments , we used to talk a lot about various contemporary
> > topics. Jinesh was working on a paper about pitfalls in Biometric
> > standards UID adopted, and he used to send a lot of contemporary
> > research papers on biometrics to me .
> >
> > Our last chat (around sep 4th) was about planning get together , when
> > he reaches home after treatments .
> > Whenever we asks about his treatment details he used to show these XKCD
> > comics
> > http://xkcd.com/931/ http://xkcd.com/938/
> >
> >
> > Blog http://www.jinsbond.in/
> > Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jinesh.jayaraman
> > twitter http://twitter.com/#!/jinsbond007
> > Picasa http://picasaweb.google.com/jinesh.k
> > http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/User:Jinesh.k
> >
> >
> > This is my last chat with him (sep 4th)
> >
> > 1:35 PM jinesh: Hi
> >  me: hi
> >  how r u
> > 1:36 PM jinesh: See sawing
> >  me: means
> >  jinesh: Better one day
> >  me: ok. got it
> >  jinesh: Back another
> >  Not yet stable
> >  me: all chemo section are over?
> >  jinesh: No chemo now
> > 1:37 PM me: transplantation kazhincho
> >  jinesh: No cancer actually
> >  Oh
> >  In june
> >  me: ok
> >  jinesh: It was little bad after that
> > 1:38 PM Icu and all
> >  Now learning to eat and walk
> >  me: hmm. So started food
> >  jinesh: Walking now short distance with support
> > 1:39 PM It starts and stops
> >  Today again started
> >  me: good
> >  jinesh: Clear liquids
> > 1:40 PM me: hmm
> >  jinesh: What's your news?
> >  me: Nothing special. Not going home for this onam
> >  First time in blr for Onam
> > 1:41 PM jinesh: When I come back to kerala will be calling for a get
> > together
> >  me: yes, we need to
> > 1:42 PM jinesh: I am thinking of calling you all home
> >  me: Lets plan that
> >  Santhosh will join in wikimedia by next month
> > 1:43 PM he will be working from home after that
> >  jinesh: He said from sept he will be home
> > 1:44 PM me: yea. he is resigning by sep 15th
> > 1:46 PM jinesh: Ok
> > 1:47 PM What's your news?
> >  me: nothing special da
> >  jinesh: By the way www-ml coordinator is still shyam
> > 1:48 PM Need to fix it
> >  me: Yea . There was a time you need to sent a mail confirming your role
> >  But at that time you were not available
> >  jinesh: I sent
> >  me: I think we need to recover it
> >  Ok.
> >  I will followup
> >  jinesh: Ok
> > 1:49 PM
> >  me: going for food
> >  jinesh: Bye
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 7:01 PM, ck raju <ck.thrissur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I have no words to express my deep sorrow on hearing the news of
> >> Jinesh succumbing to a rare variant of Leukemia. MES College of
> >> Engineering loses yet another bright scholar, a great visionary and a
> >> champion of Free Software - this time to a killer disease.
> >>
> >> I hope his parents would be able to overcome this tragedy.
> >>
> >> http://www.jinsbond.in/
> >> http://logbookofanobserver.wordpress.com/
> >> http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/User:Jinesh.k
> >> https://plus.google.com/115666744284319377455/about
> >> http://search.gmane.org/?author=Jinesh+K+J&sort=date
> >>
> >> Maybe there are more links where he has elaborated on many topics -
> >> these were something that google fetched and returned.
> >> --
> >> CK Raju
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