[open-science] Sad news from our community: Our Indian Ambassador Subhajit Ganguly has passed away

[Puneet Kishor]

I am very sad to hear this. I met Subhajit in 2013 when he traveled from Kolkata to Bangalore to attend the Open Science event I co-organized with the Indian Statistical Institute. We chatted at length about all the possibilities re open science and data in India. Life is ephemeral; let's strive to live each day to the fullest, enjoying our work and commitment to openness, collaboration and inclusion. Subhajit would have done the same.

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Puneet Kishor

> On Apr 8, 2015, at 7:11 AM, Jenny Molloy <jenny.molloy at okfn.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear All
> 
> I'm sorry to pass on this sad news from the Open Knowledge Community Team. Subhajit was a physicist and strong supporter of open science and this is a great loss to the community. Many of you will have met Subhajit at Open Knowledge Festival and may have followed the highly successful India Open Data Summit, which he recently organised.
> 
> If anyone would like to contribute their thoughts, memories and photos to the blog post which Christian is compiling, please get in touch with him on christian.villum at okfn.org.
> 
> Jenny
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Christian Villum <christian.villum at okfn.org>
> 
> Dear everyone,
> 
> It is with great sadness that we are passing on some really sad news from India: Subhajit Ganguly, who is one of our two ambassadors there, has suddenly and tragically passed away. His relatives have informed us that following a short period of illness he passed away in the hospital yesterday morning.
> 
> This is quite a shock since he was so young and energetic. As you know, he was a real powerhouse in the community in the Asian region, and most recently he was the main driving force behind India Open Data Summit.
> 
> We will be commemorating Subhajit and all his great work in a blog post, and if anyone of you would like to contribute to that or have other ideas for how we can support his family and acknowledge Subhajit's work and memory, please get in touch - either directly or in this thread.
> 
> -Christian & the Local team  
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