COW Newsletter: Ronald Lindeboom retires from Creative COW

Ronald Lindeboom retires from Creative COW

Absolutely,

Nothing else matters if you have to go through life in a constant battle against personal discomfort.

Focus on your health - we'll all be pulling for you.

"Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions."-Justice O'Connor

god speed! :)

Sorry to hear that health troubles have gotten that bad. I know how much the COW means to Ron but without our health, we have nothing. Focus on getting better Ron.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

Bob (and others) hit the nail on the head. Ron was and continues to be a visionary in the truest sense of the word. I feel privileged to be part of this COW community that Ron has started. For me it has indeed become a shining path to enlightenment. Anything I can personally do to help the cause and I'll be there.

Cheers, Ron

- Don

Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com

Get well, Ron!

The Creative Cow is an amazing place. It has been a pleasure to be associated with it for 6 or 7 years. I get a kick out of people that think they can build something that will compete with the Cow, it is truly unique, the timing and execution was perfect. It is one of the greatest resources available for the creative professional.

Wishing you all the best Ron. Get health. Rest assured that the Cow goes on, not in spite of you leaving but because you where here to begin with.

I do not use Facebook , so good health Ron in retirement, you gave me a hospitable greeting when I started with Cow.

Freelance Imaging & Video
AUSTRALIA

Ron, you have hundreds and hundreds of people saying a prayer for you. May their admiration and love help you during this difficult time. Blessings.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

Thanks for all you have done.

Best wishes for the future.

Thanks for having a helpful site, Ron. I imagine that your wife will do a good job in taking over for you. Good luck in your healing process.

Wow- thanks for everything Ron. The Cow helped me launch my career and also helped me meet my wife! Here's to the Cow going on for a long time in Ron's honor. Much love and thanks- you will be missed around these pastures.

Noah

Call Box Training.
Featuring the Panasonic GH2 and Panasonic AC160/130.

The COW is a pasture where I graze almost daily - thank you so much for that and its predecessor, the WWUG where I first "met" you almost 12 years ago. I wish you a speedy recovery and the best of everything as you continue your journey.

Gary

This is me - this is what I do - http://web.mac.com/garymmw

I only touched basis with Ron on e-mail, but I know him more from the result of his work. I found the Cow to be a creative place, a hang out place, a community of my kind of people, a place where I can give and get in return knowledge, experience and inspiration. I got my current job through the Cow.
Many thanks and good luck to Ron.
May the COW always graze the fields of creativity.

Tudor "Ted" Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

Nobody knows how well Apple will do after Steve Jobs. But the COW is in good hands, I am convinced, since Ron hand-picked a very competent, tight, and loyal crew. He's left it in the best of hands, and the people I've met here are all great folks in their own right.

Let me add my name to the very long list of folks who are extremely grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this endeavor in some small way. It has brought me knowledge, friends, and work, when I needed each the most. It's like Ron and Kathlyn have been my silent partners in all my successes, and the wonderful moderators and experts here, my personal "brain trust" of people who help each other and are helped in turn, all for the simple, crazy reason that we're all in this together, and it's the human thing to do. Heck, this place and it's regulars has become like a second family to me.

Our prayers and best wishes for a cure go out to Ron, and it is my fervent hope that from time to time, when he gets a moment, we get to see him pop in and out here and there, cruising the forums in the Great Conversation that is The one and only Creative Community Of The World.

Kudos to you, sir, and eternal respect.

just read this - me too, I'm truly sorry to hear of the man's health troubles.
I still remember the cow first appearing for AE, it was such a welcome thing, and god but you knew it was coming from the right place.

there really is just a feel to the place - and that's himself ultimately isn't it? If you're stumped and you need to ask something, you go to the Cow -
at this point, if I even just google the software query as a question - then google itself tells me to go on to the Cow.

Nár Lagaí Dia thú.

http://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

Thank you for everything! I've learned so much more from the forums here than ANYWHERE else, including college. Thank you again for creating a place for our community to gather – for me, there's nothing like it.

I don't have Facebook so I will just say here that the gratitude and respect I owe Ron and Kathlyn for setting up, building and making the COW what it is today is unpayable and I simply could not do my job properly without it.

God bless you Ron. I thank you and sincerely wish you the best of health for the future as well as prosperity and peace in all you set your hand to. Your achievements thus far have been remarkable and unparalleled.

I salute you sir.

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

Hi Ron,

I am sorry to hear of your health problems. That is first priority - get better asap!
Thanx for all the work you did and the doors you opened.
COW saved my life & work many a times and I learned a big part of my knowledge through your genius inventions.
May the Force be with You and your health back to 100% in no time.

Big Hug and all the Best!

Sascha