[ether_at_cpan]

This is very sad news.

As I said on irc:

He brought many people into the community, and encouraged their growth (like me)

I popped into the scene by sending a few Moose patches and then coming onto irc displaying an utter lack of understanding of anything

Matt set me straight, and encouraged me to send more patches and I ended up as the manager for Moose

and then inherited the ownership of literally hundreds (perhaps thousands by now) distributions

that work helped me move from being mediocre at my job to being stellar, and enabled me to move on to much better jobs

[kzisme]

What server(s)/channel(s) do you like to idle in? I miss being on irc :(

[perigrin]

I mean at a minimum #moose on irc.perl.org …

Which mst was a huge reason why irc.perl.org is still around.