[dancer-users] Sad news regarding James Aitken (LoonyPandora), Dancer contributor and pluign author

[sawyer x]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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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