Hacklog: Blogamundo — poking holes in the language barrier since approximately 1 month from now

Today’s a sad day in the geek world. Rob Levin, known as lilo, the founder of freenode.net, passed away.

After a bit of reflection I realized just how much this project owes to the existence of Freenode. If Jonas & I hadn’t started chatting about Portuguese, Python, and translation in the #joiito channel a few years ago, none of this would have ever started. We wouldn’t have decided to team up with my brother John and try to make a go of turning Bam into a serious project. We wouldn’t have known about amazing projects like Global Voices. We wouldn’t have been able to learn so much by talking directly to the Wikipedia community.

Freenode is a pretty amazing place, too easy to take for granted.

Thanks so much lilo, idle in peace.