Jürgen Haible is dead

arnew · Joined: Jul 01, 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Bergen, Norway

Just discovered the sad shocking news.
My deepest felt condolences goes to his family.

May he rest in peace

tazer · Joined: Oct 18, 2010 Posts: 49 Location: UK

Maybe a specific thread should be made for discussion about the pcb/business to help the family side of this thread and this thread should just specifically be for people to pay their respects without business or personal aspects.

It is obvious from peoples comments how highly he is regarded. So now is the time to celebrate the amazing legacy to music he has left behind, it is always hard to lose someone but at least he left lots to remember him by.

rip JH good luck on the next level

frenchyinmunich · Joined: Jun 23, 2009 Posts: 113 Location: Germany

SubG (deactivated) · Joined: Oct 09, 2009 Posts: 70

oldcrow · Joined: Sep 24, 2008 Posts: 25 Location: Chicago, IL USA

Mongo1 · Joined: Aug 11, 2011 Posts: 411 Location: Raleigh NC

frenchyinmunich · Joined: Jun 23, 2009 Posts: 113 Location: Germany

oldcrow · Joined: Sep 24, 2008 Posts: 25 Location: Chicago, IL USA

frenchyinmunich · Joined: Jun 23, 2009 Posts: 113 Location: Germany

oldcrow · Joined: Sep 24, 2008 Posts: 25 Location: Chicago, IL USA

lambshain · Joined: Dec 04, 2011 Posts: 15 Location: germany

wouldn t it be a good idea to have the possibility to submit a voluntary

donation to a bank account of jürgens family??

Harry_W · Joined: Dec 01, 2011 Posts: 55 Location: Erlangen/Germany

furio · Joined: Dec 25, 2009 Posts: 106 Location: Austria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpGFkc5GNxs
Jürgen Hable is the author of the music in this video.

Mongo1 · Joined: Aug 11, 2011 Posts: 411 Location: Raleigh NC

Nice work furio - Very spooky....

I keep expecting to see Vincent Price and Peter Lorre peering out of those windows. Twisted Evil

Gary

Harry_W · Joined: Dec 01, 2011 Posts: 55 Location: Erlangen/Germany

jojjelito · Joined: Jun 27, 2007 Posts: 50 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Nice work on the video.

I wish I wrote something earlier, but I feared I would be less eloquent. R.I.P Juergen. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.

I hope this doesn't sound political but I sincerely hope that anyone who sells PCBs or draws on Juergens fantastic work in the future donates any and all proceeds to his familiy. It would feel terrible to see "Eagle-clones" of his PCBs for sale by unscrupulous companies or individuals.

Thanks you to frenchyinmunich for trying to do this on a voluntary, not for profit basis. This honors you and does you enormous credit. I hope you can succeed in settling any squabbles over web domains and who does what so that we all can proceed in a civil, respectful manner.

Please don't soil the legacy of a great man with a great mind by keeping it voluntary so that any profits do good for the children and family that we as a community ought to try and help. Personally I don't think that DIY would have come as far along as it has today if it wasn't for good people like the late Mr Haible.

Thank you.

frenchyinmunich · Joined: Jun 23, 2009 Posts: 113 Location: Germany

Hello dear Electronic Music forum friend,

I only described a process how it could work.
In fact, it is really not difficult to do new run for different modules.
Just only keeping the way it worked.
Juergen did an amazing MASSIVE work that many people who are not electrician can't realize.
And Juergen did already a market analyze, searching the providers, components and this approved running process shouldn't be changed.

If the "responsible" want to modify prices, etc... Or even decided to stop, no problem, I can understand too...

Like we say in engineering software or electronic, never change a running process.

And it is not a must I do that if. Harry, or any Juergen's relatives can do it.

Thanks,

F

jojjelito · Joined: Jun 27, 2007 Posts: 50 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Thanks frenchy!

I don't think that any individual here harbors ill will or is a rip-off artist. I don't see anyone acting in bad faith here. I just hope that it can stay that way. Keeping it civil, acting like adults and being both rescpect- and thankful is important.

I hope the legacy of Mr. Haible stays unspoiled.

/J

SubG (deactivated) · Joined: Oct 09, 2009 Posts: 70

Harry_W · Joined: Dec 01, 2011 Posts: 55 Location: Erlangen/Germany

Finally, I managed to obtain (preliminary) opinions from the Haible family regarding the questions

- continuation of the PCB business
- setting up an account for a memorial fund
- other actions to support the family

First of all, I was asked to point out that the family, especially Jurgen's wife Birgit, is undergoing very difficult and hard times now. There are many legal, organizational and practical problems to be solved, besides the psychological strain entailed in this sad event. The fact that Jurgen did his electronics hobby and the PCB business without any participation of the family, and that he and his wife lived in separation and went through a mediation process, makes everything even more complicated. The legal implications regarding the PCB business are therefore not clear, either. All legal aspects will be clarified by the family's attorney, but this takes time.

Having said this, please understand that the family needs to take a reprieve in all these questions for some weeks, or even months. They apologize for any inconvenience or delays caused by this break. This also means that no measures should be taken by members of the community which could infringe copyright laws or which could possibly interfere with the rights or sales involved in the PCB business or in Jurgen's designs.

This is certainly not an act of unfriendliness or lack of co-operation, but to self-protect Birgit from consequences. The simple fact is that many important questions cannot be answered yet, and by taking premature steps, Birgit and other persons could subsequently be harmed (financially, legally).

CONTINUATION OF THE PCB BUSINESS:
The family really aims at continuing the PCB distribution in one way or the other. But the modus operandi is not clear yet, neither, who will (and is allowed to) do the job. Jurgen had a close friend who participated in the business in some way, but I learned about him only yesterday. Maybe he can take over Jurgen's share. Besides the legal aspects, all the documents needed to continue the job need to be found and inspected. So do not be afraid (if you planned to build a JH design) that the designs will get "lost", just be patient!

SETTING UP AN ACCOUNT FOR A MEMORIAL FUND:
This is something I asked the family to do themselves, not me. I do not want to be involved in financial matters of the family in any way.
We agreed to set up such a fund very soon, even for the reason of tracking and separating finances. It was also agreed that the proceeds of such a fund should go directly to Birgit; she is the one who cares for the children and who is affected most by the loss of Jurgen. Birgit has to work part time to have a living, the two-year daughter staying at her mother during work (son Tassilo joined a higher school this year and can care for himself some hours a day). Birgit's mother promised me to ask Birgit to set up the fund (for the time being, I avoid speaking with Birgit directly, she has troubles enough to cope with, though she is assisted by her relatives and her church).
As soon as the memorial fund is set up, you will be informed about the account dates. Unfortunately, it is not possible to use Jurgen's former paypal account for any donations: they cannot access it and it is not clear if it would work.

OTHER ACTIONS TO SUPPORT THE FAMILY:
There had been some ideas in the community, how to get proceeds for the benefit of the family. Francois (frenchyinmunich) suggested the simplest way: to call for orders to create batches of Jurgen's PCBs, where he would volunteer in the collecting of orders, triggering the production batch runs, and shipping of the PCBs to the customers. This idea, which I found is supported by many of you, can be realized as soon as the legal aspects of Jurgen's company are cleared (see above). I will negotiate with Jurgen's partner about the details. fonik (Matthias) already raised a call in his forum area for pre-ordering WASP clone PCB (fonik's own layout, Jurgen never created one) and said to donate 5 EUR per ordered piece to the family. This also needs to be delayed, at least until the legal aspects (copyright, licensing, pricing) are cleared with Jurgen's partner and the attorney.
The future of Jurgen's web site is not clear yet; but this is the least trouble for now; many of you have already made (private) copies of the site. Please do not copy and publish anything created by Jurgen on other sites, and if you build anything with the help of his designs, it is for private use and not for resale! What I noticed, and what should be fixed, are some broken links on his original home page, probably because they still direct hard-linked to Jurgen's older site in Austria. Would be a good job to find the old resources (crow aka Scott Rider?) and, some day, publish a "refurbished" JH home page. But this seems a long way off...

Best regards,
Harry

Mongo1 · Joined: Aug 11, 2011 Posts: 411 Location: Raleigh NC

Thanks so much for doing this Harry - I know this must be a difficult thing. I'm sure everyone here appreciates your efforts...

Gary

furio · Joined: Dec 25, 2009 Posts: 106 Location: Austria

Thank you Harry!

This thread makes me truly sad, but the PCB's must go on!
The family should give the Vocoder prototype to a capable person to complete the debugging.

The Legend must live on...

fonik · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:24 am Post subject:

Danke Harry!

it is great for all of us that you spend so much time for doing this. thank you...

v8pete · Joined: Jan 27, 2008 Posts: 43 Location: UK

Excellent work Harry - your efforts are greatly respected and appreciated!
Pete

SubG (deactivated) · Joined: Oct 09, 2009 Posts: 70

Great efforts,thanks for your time!