[BREAKING] Ihor E. Novikov (project owner) has died... RIP

[ghost]

Ihor E. Novikov (Igor Novikov, aka @sk1project, aka 'Linfan' on LOR) has died on March 15th, 2021.

@albertbronsky (aka 'kvikni' on LOR), Ihor's eldest son, posted this info on LOR (linux.org.ru) on March 18th, 2021.

• https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/16214926

  On March 15, 2021, my dad, Igor Novikov aka Linfan, passed away. Dad was 49 years old, he had 2 sons (I am the eldest) and 2 daughters. He was admitted to the hospital with a stroke, but, unfortunately, he was infected there with the coronavirus. Dad loved to live and made many plans for the future. In the hospital, he fought to the end for a month.

  He really liked LOR, Linux and Open Source. And really wanted to help people who do not have the money to buy professional software for printing, so for almost 20 years he has been developing the open vector editor sK1 and UniConvertor.

  Eternal memory.

Ihor E. Novikov (1971 - 2021), Ukraine 🇺🇦

P.S.

NOTE: As for now sK1 Project on GitHub is still active & maintained at least by me (@Symbian9) and @maxim-s-barabash, so pull request & issues reports are welcome.

Call for Team: Future Development of sK1 & UniConvertor --> #284

Thread on Twitter:

• https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1372910159232634881

FYI @libregraphicsmeeting

REFERENCE

• sK1 & UniConvertor Story:

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK1_(program)
  • https://sk1project.net/news/

• LGM'2007: "CDR format reverse engineering" (May 4th, 2007)

  • [video is not available] https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2007/program

• LGM'2007: "sK1 — An Open Source illustration program for prepress" (May 6th, 2007)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H88ddYUzMTo

• Ihor Novikov photo with a Trophées du Libre'2007 trophy: silver "🄯 (copyleft symbol) in a right hand" — sK1 project was awarded the 2nd place in category "Multimedia/Games" (November 29th, 2007)
  

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Troph%C3%A9es_du_Libre#4th_edition_-_2007
    • http://web.archive.org/web/20071204213605/http://www.tropheesdulibre.org/
      • http://web.archive.org/web/20071207181922/http://www.tropheesdulibre.org/sK1.html
  • Interview with sK1 Project Team after Trophées du Libre'2007 - http://wiki.linuxformat.ru/wiki/LXF100-101:%D0%98%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D1%8C%D1%8E_LXF%E2%80%932
    • PDF https://inp.nsk.su/~baldin/interview/sK1/LXF100.iview_sK1.pdf

• LGM'2008: "About sK1 and UniConvertor" (May 8th, 2008)

  • [video is not available] https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/program.html

• LGM'2009: "sK1 v0.9: Ready for Prepress!" (May 9th, 2009)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUViWp-UJQ4

• Igor Novikov interview at Trophées du Libre'2009 — UniConvertor project was awarded the 1st place in category "Multimedia" (July 30th, 2009)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MPkx1wIa2Q
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Troph%C3%A9es_du_Libre#5th_edition_-_2009
      • http://web.archive.org/web/20090609172259/http://www.trophees-du-libre.org/
        • http://web.archive.org/web/20090521152459/http://www.trophees-du-libre.org/content/view/128

• LGM'2010: "sK1 Project: Past, Present and Future" (May 28th, 2010)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBZxxIK9K9o

• LGM'2012: "Igor Novikov: sK1 Project Reloaded" (May 2nd, 2012)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaHSmr0cWO8

• LGM'2019: "CorelDRAW bidirectional interoperability for FOSS applications" (May 30th, 2019)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdZpK_Z2AuI

[Kaned1as]

Rest in peace

[albertbronsky]

Hello. Ihor's son here. Thank you for this announcement. Also, many thanks for the collection of his speeches.
May I offer to correct his year of birth? It's 1971. He would have been 50 this October.

Also, I found these pieces as well:
https://inp.nsk.su/~baldin/interview/sK1/LXF100.iview_sK1.pdf
http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/blog/conversation/how-to-catch-ukrainian-tv-in-moscow

[ghost]

@albertbronsky, щирі співчуття вашій родині.

May I offer to correct his year of birth?

I just corrected it, thanks for clarification.

[unixino]

Rest in peace

[Correct-Syntax]

Wow. Sad. Life is precious.

[fitojb]

As expressed on Twitter, the @LibreOffice project and its design team offer its most heartfelt condolences.

[lobaluna]

All my condolences to the family of this great contributor to open source. I'm deeply sorry since this was a project and program that I followed and used a lot.

I suggest, @Symbian9, to name the next release of the project or the project itself as Ihor itself.

[ghost]

I suggest to name the next release of the project or the project itself as Ihor itself.

@lobaluna, I guess we would release sK1 2.0 "Ihor" this October.

[lobaluna]

Great news! Thanks, @Symbian9 !!!

[orlovmyk]

Just wanted to leave my respect to Ihor

Last year of his life he became my teammate here in Ukraine. He was very open and bright person and had enormous amount of experience and shared it with everyone he could. I can't even describe how bad that news were for me, because it seemed like we would spend much more time working together. He wasn't just a good programmer, but good father and teacher. You have inspired many people to do things, including me.

Rest in peace, friend. I won't forget you
Покойся с миром, друг. Я тебя не забуду

[jozsefk9]

So sad :( Corona took so many precious lives... Thank you for everything.

[mpuz]

Rest in peace. May I ask - if he has got a vaccine or not?

[albertbronsky]

Rest in peace. May I ask - if he has got a vaccine or not?

No, the vaccines had not yet been available to general public back in February 2021 when he was admitted to hospital.

[orlovmyk]

Rest in peace. May I ask - if he has got a vaccine or not?

No, the vaccines had not yet been available to general public back in February 2021 when he was admitted to hospital.

Absolutely agreed, in that time noone was vaccinated at all, and it wasn't even question about money or power - Ukraine just didn't have vaccines.

[albertbronsky]

Rest in peace. May I ask - if he has got a vaccine or not?

No, the vaccines had not yet been available to general public back in February 2021 when he was admitted to hospital.

Absolutely agreed, in that time noone was vaccinated at all, and it wasn't even question about money or power - Ukraine just didn't have vaccines.

Yes, the mass vaccination only started in June 2021.