Very sad new! My condolences to the family and all his friends in the community.
B/R! Hasive User: Nhasive On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi < [email protected]> wrote: > Really sad news! Condolences to the family. > > Best! > Subha > > > On 19 ଅକ୍ଟୋବର 2014, at 7:17 am, Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Terrible news. I had the pleasure of knowing him, and had a few > > interesting conversations with him over the years. > > > > Like the best, he was modest, tireless, and collegial. > > > > My condolences to the family and all his friends in the community. > > > > Asaf > >> On Oct 18, 2014 6:26 AM, "Andrea Zanni" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> It is with great sorrow that Wikimedia Italia announces the death of > >> Alessio Guidetti, better known on the projects as Cotton. He has been > >> treasurer of the organization for about five years, from 2009 until last > >> April. > >> > >> Alessio started to contribute to Wikipedia at the end of 2006: after a > few > >> months he became already a sysop. He was a tireless translator of > English > >> articles in the most diverse fields, and also part of the small group of > >> the patrollers -and, indeed, he continued his precious work until the > last, > >> even if invisible for most of the editors. > >> > >> From the moment he joined Wikimedia Italia, Alessio was very keen to > >> contribute effectively, guided by his well-known pragmatism. He run for > the > >> Board: as soon as he was elected, he took the role of treasurer, a > >> difficult task and a fundamental one for us but little recognized. It > was > >> Alessio who took care of the most delicate and complicated tasks, and he > >> did so in the years during which Wikimedia Italia was starting to grow > big, > >> the years of our quantum leap. > >> > >> This spring he decided to not run again for the Board, but he kept > >> collaborating with his successor for an effective -and not only formal- > >> handover. He took care of the accounting, donations and employees' > >> paychecks till his very last days. He has been an incredible help: > >> trustworthy, precious, always ready for a joke. > >> > >> Alessio has been a pillar of Wikimedia Italia: his pragmatism, his > >> hardworking disposition, his sense of humor were, and are, a part of our > >> organization. A part of how it was born and how it is growing. A part of > >> what we are. > >> > >> Wikimedia Italia is close to the family and the friends of Alessio in > this > >> grievous moment. > >> > >> We will terribly miss him. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Many of you have know Alessio in Wikimanias and conferences. > >> > >> If you wish, you can leave a last goodbye here on his userpage: > >> https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussioni_utente:Cotton#Ciao. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Andrea Zanni > >> > >> on behalf of Wikimedia Italia > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >> [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive> Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People> Moderator, Social Media Interaction | The Daily Prothom-Alo <http://www.prothom-alo.com> Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge <http://www.okfn.org> Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) <http://www.bdosn.org> Task Force Member | Mozilla Bangladesh <http://www.mozillabd.org> Author & Translator | Global Voice <http://bn.globalvoicesonline.org/author/hasive> fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
