Ralph began contributing to Xiph.org in 2000 and became a core Ghostscript developer in 2001[1]. Ralph made many contributions to the royalty-free media ecosystem, whether it was as a project lead on Theora, serving as release manager for multiple Xiph libraries or maintaining Xiph infrastructure that has been used across the industry by codec engineers and researchers[2]. He was also the first to ship Rust code in Firefox[3] during his time at Mozilla, which was a major milestone for both the language and Firefox itself.

Ralph was a great contributor, a kind colleague and will be greatly missed.

Official Announcement: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7427730...

[1]: http://www.wizards-of-os.org/archiv/sprecher/g_h/ralph_giles...

[2]: https://media.xiph.org/

[3]: https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/deploying-rust-in-a-large-co...