Re: A Tribute to our Colleague Marty Kraimer

[Timo Korhonen via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

I am so sad to hear this news. I will miss Marty.

I had the luck to get know Marty quite well, meeting on many occasions in my now well over 20 years (I stopped counting) in the EPICS community.

He was relentless in his drive to develop EPICS further, helping and advising his colleagues all the way, as long as his health allowed.

I am at loss of words.

 

Timo

 

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of bob dalesio via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Reply to: bob dalesio <bob.dalesio at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, 1 February 2022 at 14:26
To: EPICS tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: A Tribute to our Colleague Marty Kraimer

 

Forgive the non-technical email. Marty passed away recently. As Marty has provided immeasurable support to this community, this seems like the most appropriate way to let everyone know. He was dedicated to building a collaboration on a code base - before there were any text books or scholarly papers or even a name for it - that was open-source. He was a prolific coder, open to help and take help from others. He was meticulous in the production of robust code that many would depend on to operate their facilities. Making mistakes and fixing them is great for making heroes. Making code that everyone depends on and no one ever notices is the work of an outstanding engineer. Marty was an outstanding engineer and he was tireless in this pursuit. He laid waste to many a keyboard with his pounding style. His contributions are fundamental to all of our successes. Have a beer to our colleague, benefactor and friend ---