Sad to know. Condolences. Hasive On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Isaac Olatunde &lt;reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) **:: **নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী (হাছিব)* User: Hasive <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hasive> | GSM/WhatsApp/Viber: +8801712754752 ​ Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hasive> Board Member | Wikimedia Bangladesh <http://www.wikimedia.org.bd/> fb.com/Hasive <http://fb.com/NCHasive> | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | www.nhasive.com

Thanks Asaf. On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Andy Mabbett &lt;andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk&gt; wrote: I would be glad to work on this over the next few days, with others who knew and worked with him. --- Thank you Asaf for sending this. Austin was a very dear friend of mine. We met in 2005 at the first Wikimania in Frankfurt, along with many (now) old-timers. Austin was quiet, kind, good at programming, and a Wikipedian through and through as Lodewijk wrote elsewhere -- fond of politics and facts. We ended up working together on Wikimania 2006 and then for several conference editions after that. I remember late nights printing badges in Cambridge, Taiwan, Poland... He also served on the chapters committee and then Affcom (2006-2012) and was chair of that committee. He was administrator of this mailing list for a very long time (and believe me, had seen every argument under the sun). Before that, he was an IRC administrator. He worked on various versions of meta strategy projects, and there are doubtless many other things I'm forgetting. His family lives in Texas; his friends are everywhere. He will be missed a great deal. We'll be collecting photos and memories for his family. If you have stories or anecdotes to share, please add them to the meta page, and if you have photos there's a commons category here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Austin_Hair Hugs to all, Phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com *

Hi all, the family has indicated an interest in memories that we could collect. If you would like to share a memory for such collection, I would encourage you to share it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Austin/Memorial . For many of us Wikimedians, our families have only a slight idea what it is that we do, in all those hours we spend on this free knowledge stuff. Bringing together some memories may help bridge that gap. Warmly, Lodewijk On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Shlomi Fish &lt;shlomif(a)shlomifish.org&gt; wrote:

Condolences. Something suitable has been added at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:34 PM, Shabab Mustafa &lt;shabab.mustafa(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- *Moheen Reeyad*Author, Editor, Internet activist. @moheenreeyad <https://twitter.com/moheenreeyad> | moheenreeyad.xyz