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Posted by samzenpus on from the this-one's-for-you dept.

First time accepted submitter The_Buse writes "This week I lost my grandmother and after returning to work (as a web developer) I find myself looking for some way to dedicate something to her memory. Unfortunately, I'm no author so I can't dedicate a book to her, and I can't carry a tune so penning a song in her honor is out of the question. What I can do is write one hell of a web app, and after nearly a year of development my (small) team and I are nearing the release date of our next product. My question is, have you ever dedicated a project/app/code in honor of someone? What's the best way to do it: comment blocks in the header, tongue-in-cheek file names, Easter eggs? Or is this a horrible idea all together?"

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  1. I did, once upon a time... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/dedication.html

  2. Re:As usual, check out Debian by LourensV · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And KDE has dedicated releases to deceased contributors as well. Why not? A small note in the release notes and perhaps in the About box would be the most tasteful option in my opinion, but it's your grandmother, so you decide.

  3. Dedications help by mtaht · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I lost two friends and my father this year. I dedicated this release of cerowrt ( http://cero2.bufferbloat.net/cerowrt/credits.html ) to them. Most of the machines we have are named after someone that has passed, for example our main build box is named after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Huchra It helped a lot to channel them all as we struggled to get the releases out. And, surprisingly, making ice cream, with liquid nitrogen as the coolant, has got to be a healing ritual, around here.