Thanks for letting us know, Kirk.
Bill has been struggling for quite a long time.
He really helped many of us. I personally benefited from his email assistance... and still do!
We'll miss him.
--terry
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:31:58AM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Writing to let people know that a long time friend and contributor
> Bill Acker wb2flw passed away last evening.
>
> Bill was responsible for putting our first Redhat and fedora speakup
> enabled distributions together. In more recent years he maintained the
> server where we shared dns services and provided mail and mail backup
> for many members of the community.
>
> He was an avid ham and phone freak and maintained a freeswitch which
> many people using voip still use.
>
> I am going to miss him very much. I'm sure others here will as
> well. He died of complications to his prostate cancer which he's been
> fighting for the past couple years.
>
> 73s Bill. It's been a good journey.
>
> Kirk
>
> --
> Well that's it then, colour me gone!
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