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

[Mike Whitaker]

That's awful. He was a great bloke, and I enjoyed our chats on #dancer.

On 13 Aug 2014, at 10:23, David Precious <davidp at preshweb.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> (Posted this to dancer-users first; it was suggested that it be posted
> to london-pm too as several mongers had met/knew James.)
> 
> 
> 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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