[PD] Gerard van Dongen/Gilcher 1967-2006

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That is indeed hard news.  I only had the pleasure of working with  
him from a far.  His force feedback work was one of the key elements  
which lead me to the [hid] toolkit stuff...

He will indeed be missed...

.hc

On Mar 8, 2006, at 4:52 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> I only met Gerard during last year's Linux Audio conference. I
> approached him after his first performance with my
> german-accent-ridden English and we had a first long conversation in
> English.
>
> Later that evening I met him again at the bar where this tall man was
> talking to someone I don't remember - and he spoke in perfect German!
>
> He was just too kind and too friendly to tell me immediatly that he
> knew German much better than I know English and that we could just as
> well switch languages to the one, his wife grew up with.
>
>
> The next evening he rocked the house with his feedback joystick.
>
>
> His passing is a huge loss.
> -- 
>  Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
>
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