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<define-tag pagetitle>Debian Project mourns the loss of Jens Schmalzing</define-tag>
<define-tag release_date>2005-08-09</define-tag>
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<p>The Debian Project has lost another member of its community.  Jens
Schmalzing (jensen) died on July 30th in a tragic accident at his
workplace in Munich.</p>

<p>Jens was involved in Debian as a maintainer of several packages, as
supporter of the PowerPC port, as a member of the kernel team, and was
instrumental in taking the PowerPC kernel package to version 2.6.  He
also maintained the Mac-on-Linux emulator and its kernel modules,
helped with the installer and with local Munich activities.  The
kernel team dedicates the 2.6.12-2 release to him.</p>

<p>The Debian Project honours his good work and strong dedication to
Debian and Free Software.  The contribution of Jens will not be
forgotten, and other developers will continue his work.</p>

<p>Jens will be missed. He left behind a wife and three children, who
have our sympathy.</p>

<h2>About Debian</h2>

<p>The Debian project is an organisation of many developers who volunteer
their time and effort, collaborating via the Internet.  Their tasks
include maintaining and updating Debian GNU/Linux which is a free
distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system.  Debian's dedication
to Free Software, its non-profit nature, and its open development
model makes it unique among GNU/Linux distributions.</p>

<h2>Contact Information</h2>

<p>For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
<a href="$(HOME)/">https://www.debian.org/</a> or send mail to
&lt;press@debian.org&gt;.</p>