[johnmertic]

Chris Aniszczyk said it best on Twitter...

"2020 continues... cancer is the worst..." - https://twitter.com/cra/status/1322971257869078528

Indeed it is. Lost by father to cancer, and father-in-law right now is fighting cancer. Both them and Dan way too young.

I'm blessed to have known Dan in my career at the LF. He was a man of principle, and truly cared for the community that he served. Recently I worked with him to build landscapes for many of my projects ( https://github.com/cncf/landscapeapp ) and always appreciated his attention to detail and care for a great end product. He closed pull requests for any landscape faster than any of us could even get to them, and was constantly looking through the artwork to ensure it was high quality. Some folks that could have rubbed the wrong way - for me, it showed how deeply he cared for the communities to have great assets. You see that thread in every open source effort he touched.

Dan taught me how to serve in an open source foundation leadership role by his great example. His mark on efforts at the Linux Foundation, and open source in general, will truly be missed - but forever his mark will be implanted.