The PDPC, Linux, Freenode

I found this over on Slashdot this evening regarding an old friend and colleague Rob Levin. Rob appears to have passed away in a bikeriding accident. I worked with Rob on initially building the PDPC and making it a non-profit and able to direct, manage, and fund projects. I had never worked on a non-profit at that level and found the exercise in building the legal case, the paperwork, and the documentation an interesting journey. Many people had open and private feuds with Rob over things; but I never let those things come into the relationship I enjoyed with Lilo. As everyone knows that runs Linux, Lilo is a boot loader and is probably the oldest or most used or something. Rob was a boot loader himself and I think the name was fitting. He boot loaded how we could get support on open networks for many, many projects. I used to hang out on Freenode back when and spent many an evening using Xchat on that network. I also hung on EFnet until I got banned from the Linux channel there and found out that Rob could help me get