Creating a Memorial and History Page for J.Murga

[rockedge]

Calling for help to build an extra page for the newly converted Murga Forum that will be a tribute to John Murga and something about the history of the Puppy Linux Forum.

I am hoping that the Community's creativity and attention to detail will design a page or have ideas on how it should look and what it should say. With input especially from those of you who have been a part of these forums since 2005.

The memorial/history page will be built in the same manner as the license and cookie's pages.

Ideas and designs welcome!

[Dingo]

Calling for help to build an extra page for the newly converted Murga Forum that will be a tribute to John Murga and something about the history of the Puppy Linux Forum.

I am hoping that the Community's creativity and attention to detail will design a page or have ideas on how it should look and what it should say. With input especially from those of you who have been a part of these forums since 2005.

The memorial/history page will be built in the same manner as the license and cookie's pages.

Ideas and designs welcome!

I'm using puppy since 2007.

Can we write some lines of poetry? I'm a poet and ghostwriter and I would be pleased to donate some lines in memory of puppy forum mantainer during these long years

[wizard]

I have no artistic ability and am no poet, but here are my thoughts.

In the world of puppy linux, John Murga was a sheep dog. He unselfishly herded what I believe is one of the best and most helpful linux forums on the web. Over the years I've received help from forum members from all over the world, and sometimes it came from John himself. Somehow, in his busy family and professional life, he found time to lend his expertise to fix a puppy problem for a user on the other side of the planet.

Here's to you MU!

wizard
puppy user since 2003

[Grey]

I've started using Puppy on a full-time basis since Tahr. But I read an old forum maybe 12 years ago and used Puppy 2.17, Lucid, Wary and Racy from time to time.
It would be nice if someone wrote a short essay or feature article about John's life. Maybe even someone on the forum knew him personally.

[tosim]

IMHO, this is a great idea. At the moment, sorry I can't think of something I could contribute to this.

[keniv]

I also think this is a great idea but I think those that are able to contribute to what will be written would need to know more of the man than I do but I think there will be many on this forum who like myself used the old forum and feel they owe him a great debt. Perhaps something along these lines could be included as well.

Regards,

Ken.

[bigpup]

To Puppy Linux users he needs no introduction. In 2005 John set up the Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

John's generosity created a very valuable resource, not just for the Puppy Linux community but the Linux community in general. It certainly inspired many Puppy fans to dig deeper into Linux including my self. Thank you.

Yes Amazing that forum went for 15 years with a lot of history - the software running it was pretty old but hey it still ran pretty well considering the demands on it.

Learned a lot from that community.

John de Murga. The man who hosted, and paid for the Murga-Linux Forum out of his own pocket for nearly 16 years, and without whom the current Puppy Linux membership wouldn't have become what it is today.

JM spent many years as an analyst/programmer in the banking sector, and was single-handedly responsible for some of the sector's cornerstone software which is still in use today. His final years were spent in Singapore, where work had taken him and his family.