Sad news regarding James Aitken (LoonyPandora), Dancer contributor and pluign author
Hi all, Sadly, my friend and colleague James Aitken (LoonyPandora/JAITKEN), who contributed to Dancer and wrote several Dancer plugins, died unexpectedly last week. He was hit by a car back in June and suffered head injuries, but had mostly recovered - but then took a sudden turn for the worse, and passed away last week. Details as to exactly what happened are still sketchy at this point. Due to how unexpected it all was and the fact he has no immediate family / next of kin, he will receive a very very basic state-funded "pauper's funeral" unless enough money is raised to cover the cost of a proper funeral - so his ex-girlfriend set up a fundraising page to accept donations towards the cost: http://gogetfunding.com/project/james-aitken-s-funeral If you used his code and found it useful, and have a couple of quid to spare, any donations would be very much appreciated. If you cannot, but he or his code made a difference to you, you can still leave a comment there if you'd like. Dave P -- David Precious ("bigpresh") <davidp@preshweb.co.uk> http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedin www.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpan www.preshweb.co.uk/github
:-((( Thanks for this email Dave. Peco 2014-08-13 10:45 GMT+02:00 David Precious <davidp@preshweb.co.uk>:
Hi all,
Sadly, my friend and colleague James Aitken (LoonyPandora/JAITKEN), who contributed to Dancer and wrote several Dancer plugins, died unexpectedly last week.
He was hit by a car back in June and suffered head injuries, but had mostly recovered - but then took a sudden turn for the worse, and passed away last week. Details as to exactly what happened are still sketchy at this point.
Due to how unexpected it all was and the fact he has no immediate family / next of kin, he will receive a very very basic state-funded "pauper's funeral" unless enough money is raised to cover the cost of a proper funeral - so his ex-girlfriend set up a fundraising page to accept donations towards the cost:
http://gogetfunding.com/project/james-aitken-s-funeral
If you used his code and found it useful, and have a couple of quid to spare, any donations would be very much appreciated. If you cannot, but he or his code made a difference to you, you can still leave a comment there if you'd like.
Dave P
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Hi David, thanks for taking the time to share this bad news with the list. That's a very sad news. The paypal account recently received around 100 euros from a couple of donators. I'll give that money back for James' funeral, and will add a bit or two to the pot. I didn't know very well James but I remember a kind a pleasant person while we discussed about Dancer. I'm sad he passed away in such an unexpected and tragic way. May the peace be with his soul. 2014-08-13 10:45 GMT+02:00 David Precious <davidp@preshweb.co.uk>:
Hi all,
Sadly, my friend and colleague James Aitken (LoonyPandora/JAITKEN), who contributed to Dancer and wrote several Dancer plugins, died unexpectedly last week.
He was hit by a car back in June and suffered head injuries, but had mostly recovered - but then took a sudden turn for the worse, and passed away last week. Details as to exactly what happened are still sketchy at this point.
Due to how unexpected it all was and the fact he has no immediate family / next of kin, he will receive a very very basic state-funded "pauper's funeral" unless enough money is raised to cover the cost of a proper funeral - so his ex-girlfriend set up a fundraising page to accept donations towards the cost:
http://gogetfunding.com/project/james-aitken-s-funeral
If you used his code and found it useful, and have a couple of quid to spare, any donations would be very much appreciated. If you cannot, but he or his code made a difference to you, you can still leave a comment there if you'd like.
Dave P
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Thank you - that's incredible of you! Humbled, and proud to be a part of such a generous project team (even if I haven't had a chance to actually write much code lately!) On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:51:49 +0200 Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi David, thanks for taking the time to share this bad news with the list.
That's a very sad news.
The paypal account recently received around 100 euros from a couple of donators.
I'll give that money back for James' funeral, and will add a bit or two to the pot.
I didn't know very well James but I remember a kind a pleasant person while we discussed about Dancer. I'm sad he passed away in such an unexpected and tragic way.
May the peace be with his soul.
2014-08-13 10:45 GMT+02:00 David Precious <davidp@preshweb.co.uk>:
Hi all,
Sadly, my friend and colleague James Aitken (LoonyPandora/JAITKEN), who contributed to Dancer and wrote several Dancer plugins, died unexpectedly last week.
He was hit by a car back in June and suffered head injuries, but had mostly recovered - but then took a sudden turn for the worse, and passed away last week. Details as to exactly what happened are still sketchy at this point.
Due to how unexpected it all was and the fact he has no immediate family / next of kin, he will receive a very very basic state-funded "pauper's funeral" unless enough money is raised to cover the cost of a proper funeral - so his ex-girlfriend set up a fundraising page to accept donations towards the cost:
http://gogetfunding.com/project/james-aitken-s-funeral
If you used his code and found it useful, and have a couple of quid to spare, any donations would be very much appreciated. If you cannot, but he or his code made a difference to you, you can still leave a comment there if you'd like.
Dave P
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I would like to join Alexis in his fine words. I have worked many times with James on his modules, on Dancer, and we talked frequently on the channel. He was always very kind and very helpful. He was a pleasure to converse with and to work through solutions with. I'm very sad to hear these news. It is a great loss to us all. I'll be making a donation to his funeral as well. It's the least I can do. On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:40 PM, David Precious <davidp@preshweb.co.uk> wrote:
Thank you - that's incredible of you!
Humbled, and proud to be a part of such a generous project team (even if I haven't had a chance to actually write much code lately!)
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:51:49 +0200 Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi David, thanks for taking the time to share this bad news with the list.
That's a very sad news.
The paypal account recently received around 100 euros from a couple of donators.
I'll give that money back for James' funeral, and will add a bit or two to the pot.
I didn't know very well James but I remember a kind a pleasant person while we discussed about Dancer. I'm sad he passed away in such an unexpected and tragic way.
May the peace be with his soul.
2014-08-13 10:45 GMT+02:00 David Precious <davidp@preshweb.co.uk>:
Hi all,
Sadly, my friend and colleague James Aitken (LoonyPandora/JAITKEN), who contributed to Dancer and wrote several Dancer plugins, died unexpectedly last week.
He was hit by a car back in June and suffered head injuries, but had mostly recovered - but then took a sudden turn for the worse, and passed away last week. Details as to exactly what happened are still sketchy at this point.
Due to how unexpected it all was and the fact he has no immediate family / next of kin, he will receive a very very basic state-funded "pauper's funeral" unless enough money is raised to cover the cost of a proper funeral - so his ex-girlfriend set up a fundraising page to accept donations towards the cost:
http://gogetfunding.com/project/james-aitken-s-funeral
If you used his code and found it useful, and have a couple of quid to spare, any donations would be very much appreciated. If you cannot, but he or his code made a difference to you, you can still leave a comment there if you'd like.
Dave P
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On 14-08-13 04:45 AM, David Precious wrote:
Sadly, my friend and colleague James Aitken (LoonyPandora/JAITKEN), who contributed to Dancer and wrote several Dancer plugins, died unexpectedly last week.
Just want to join the group in voicing my sympathies and say I'm terribly sorry to hear the news. James will be missed. :-( `/anick
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Alexis Sukrieh -
David Precious -
Juan José 'Peco' San Martín -
sawyer x -
Yanick Champoux