{"id":924,"date":"2024-08-03T12:53:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T16:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=924"},"modified":"2025-07-19T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:57:30","slug":"in-memory-of-brian-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of Brian Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3eguztg5751m.cloudfront.net\/as\/assets-mem-com\/cmi\/4\/9\/2\/2\/11922294\/838cf79c-f6b9-457d-909d-9c4d672308d8_0_orig.jpg\/-\/brian-thomas-kennesaw-ga-photos3.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:234px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>We are sad to share that our friend Brian Thomas has passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brian was a System Engineer at Lexis Nexis and had a distinguished career in Information Technology. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brian-thomas-500a8163\/\">LinkedIn Profile<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brian has been a leader in the Atlanta Linux Enthusiast (ALE) user group for many years. ALE has met consistently every Sunday for over a decade, from Harry&#8217;s Pizza, to Schlotzsky&#8217;s, to on-line meetings during and after the pandemic. Brian was the Meetup organizer; he would give presentations on new things he found interesting and share his sysadmin knowledge with anyone that asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside Linux, Brian kept bees, enjoyed his motorcycle and fishing. In discussions of tv and movies he was source of fun trivia.&nbsp; Brian also volunteered at the night shift at Must Ministries night shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please join us in celebrating the life and memory of Brian Thomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dignitymemorial.com\/obituaries\/kennesaw-ga\/brian-thomas-11922294\">Brian Thomas Obituary and Memorial Details<\/a> Friends of Brian are invited to leave memories on the memorial page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Contributors: Mark, Steve, JD<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are sad to share that our friend Brian Thomas has passed. Brian was a System Engineer at Lexis Nexis and had a distinguished career in Information Technology. (LinkedIn Profile). Brian has been a leader in the Atlanta Linux Enthusiast (ALE) user group for many years. ALE has met consistently every Sunday for over a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,18,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ale-central","category-ale-northeast","category-ale-southwest","category-ale-ga400","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}