[School-of-data] Memories of Michael

Tue Sep 15 05:00:59 UTC 2015

Dear Lucy - This is awful news  - Michael was such a lovely guy, and so patient and kind to me over the years.

Thank you for providing this focus for us to bring together our thoughts and memories of him.

What a loss.

Tom

> On 15 Sep 2015, at 03:48, Heather Leson <heatherleson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Friends,
> 
> I am glad that we can be together and do something together during this time.
> 
> We will all miss him
> 
> I have so many memories and photos.
> 
> One thing I will say is that if you are near a fellow school of data friend and ally, try to meet in person or connect with us online. Michael was so proud of this community. This is a way to help each other. The Facebook page is starting to fill with photos. I will also add some. And tomorrow night I'll be in Dubai with Ali Rebaie, one of the first Fellows.
> 
> Thinking of you
> 
> Heather
> 
> On Sep 15, 2015 1:32 AM, "Lucy Chambers" <lucy at fedia.net> wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 
> You may already have heard about the devastating loss of the world's premier Data Diva, Michael Bauer, who worked at School of Data right from the beginning of the project until last year.
> 
> Michael travelled and met and helped more people than any one person could ever hope to keep track of. (Man, I was his manager for two years and I hardly knew where he was…) It would be amazing to hear stories from around the world of the amazing things he did.
> 
> The Internet is a fragmented place and we would love to capture and consolidate memories from that journey to share and preserve offline and online in one place for friends and family alike.
> 
> As a result, I would like you to invite to send memories of Michael to a team of curators who will consolidate them and make them available to everyone who is interested. Ideally, they should include:
> 
> 	• a geographic location (yes, the Internet counts)
> 	• an image [if you have one]
> 	• a message, handwritten or typed
> Based off what people submit, we will then curate these and work out the most appropriate mechanism to present them. There will definitely be an offline version for his loved ones, recommendations also welcomed for online spaces.
> 
> Please email me directly on Lucy [at] fedia . net - or tweet them to me at @lucyfedia. For any particularly large files - please contact me as above and we will establish a solution.
> 
> I will ensure to share on this mailing list when the collection is finished. Thank you for helping us celebrate a wonderful - and truly idiosyncratic human being,
> 
> Lucy and friends
> 
> 
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