It fills us with great sadness to have to write that a key community collaborator on our project, Yoran Heling, or Yorhel as he was known in the VNDB community, has left us with tragic suddenness. Yoran and the enthusiast community he formed with his website vndb.org have been an important and valued contributor to the JVMG project. We met him for the first time seven years ago at our inaugural project workshop in Leipzig, and we have been in contact with him since. We were so happy that Yoran was able to join us in Kyoto for our JVMG Lab and Symposium there this February. The picture below is from his presentation at the symposium event. The memory is still fresh and we find it difficult to think of him as someone who is no longer among us. Our sincere condolences go out to his family, friends and community on behalf of the JVMG project and all our project members past and present. Yoran was one of the few people who read this blog regularly, so in closing we would like to offer two older blogposts that feature him, one about the inaugural Leipzig 2019 event and one about the Stuttgart 2023 event where we also had the pleasure of having him join us.
