Milan Sova was born 11 January 1962 in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.
Milan graduated in 1985 from the Czech Technical University in Prague and later worked there for ten years as a network administrator. Since 2000 he was employed by CESNET. He played an active role in the development of eduroam, PKI and federations worldwide and formed the Czech Identity Federation eduID.cz, eduroam and the CESNET CA services.
He was a valuable member of several international working groups within TERENA, IGTF, EUGridPMA, OGF and GEANT. In TERENA he was a highly valued contributor the the Task Forces MNM and EMC2 and to REFEDS and TCS.
Milan Sova was a strong personality with a natural authority. He put his mark on many developments in our community and will be dearly missed for his contributions and above all his friendship.
Please add your name and country of origin as a tribute to Milan!
Kevin Meynell (United Kingdom)
Ian Neilson (UK)
Scott Rea (Australia)
Will miss you Milan, you were the most difficult person I ever met when it come to getting your photo, thanks for your contributions and humour
Dana Ludviga (Latvia). Will miss you!
Armenuhi Abramyan (Armenia).
Milan our F2F’s will never be the same without you! we will Miss you…(Venezuela)
Jim Basney (USA)
We knew from the very first days of DataGrid. He really was an exceptional person.
Matthew Viljoen (UK)
Paolo Veronesi (Italy)
Rafael Marco (Spain)
Eric Yen (Taiwan)
Sabita Behari (The Netherlands)
Yoshio Tanaka (Japan)
I never forget our long and valuable discussions.
Jeroen van der Ham (Netherlands)
Pavel Polacek (Czech Republic)