Malcolm was brilliant, and sweet. When I submitted my first patch to Django, it was his encouragement that gave me the confidence and motivation to keep contributing. At Disqus, we brought him in for a few weeks of contract work, and watching him clean up the mess we'd made was perhaps the most programmatically-enlightening part of my career so far.
Same here, it was him who committed my first Django patch. He also came across as an incredibly nice person, with very thoughtful and kind comments. I've also read some of his ORM code and that was some of the nicest Python I've ever read.
Unfortunately I've never had a chance to meet him, and I haven't really been following the happenings in Django-world for a long time now, but I still felt really saddened seeing the news. Condolences to friends and family.
I didn't have much interaction with Malcolm when he helping us at Disqus, but I just remembered that he was incredibly smart and very kind. I'm very saddened by this news.
