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 Very sad news: Paul Beuk 1965-2025
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| Jan Willem |
Posted on 16-04-2025 09:26
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 Member Location: Waalwijk, The Netherlands Posts: 2152 Joined: 24.07.04 |
Thank you Gerard. Good newspaper article!
Jan Willem van Zuijlen |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 24-04-2025 19:11
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Just a quick update from myself... Obviously, a big thanks to Carin, Paul's widow, and to Meike, his daughter, for helping us unpick the situation with Paul's hosting etc. and for their commitment to maintaining Paul's legacy. Nikita has made a very generous offer of funding and we are just working out the best way to move these funds to the hosts. Next we really need to build a much broader team of diptera.info members who can help act as Admins but also people who can help with securing funding / support for diptera.info going forward. I don't have any strong feelings on how we should achieve this yet so I'm open to suggestions. My time is going to be fairly short this summer as my father has broken his back and needs a lot of support from me - and lives 2.5 hours away, so I have to do a lot of travelling in and around a full-time job and looking after family here. If we could get a few more minds to help with this and do some of the organisation and administration then that would take pressure off the 3 of us and help us move forward without depending on a few people. Anyway, I think we should open up discussion and see what the active members think. Chris R. Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| thijsdegraaf |
Posted on 29-04-2025 13:41
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Member Location: Bergen (NH) Posts: 838 Joined: 21.10.08 |
Best wishes to your father Chris. That sounds serious. I had actually thought that Diptera, just like Waarneming https://forum.waa...ng.nl/smf/ in the Netherlands, would collaborate with all kinds of nature organizations. Especially because Paul, as curator of biology at the Natural History Museum Maastricht, will have had many contacts (which also applies to the administrators). Speaking of Waarneming/Observation. From the Netherlands and Belgium, they have expanded to observations all over the world. https://observati...g/photos/? Their forum is declining, also due to the increasingly better automatic determination and the admins who determine submitted photos. No idea whether they want to expand further, but could they not help? Their Observation would become much better known, could gain many members. There is a lot of know-how there. In addition, cooperation and sponsorship could be entered into with international nature organizations. A number of people here, such as Theo Zeegers, also work for Waarneming. Maybe a crazy idea, but I'll write it down anyway. Regards, Thijs Edited by thijsdegraaf on 29-04-2025 15:30 http://www.tuin-t...engels.htm |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 01-05-2025 16:19
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Hi Thijs - that is an interesting avenue - do you know who might be able to approach them to see if they would like to help keep Paul's legacy going? I feel that, while a group of us could keep it going, an institution could keep the site working much more easily because they already have the technical staff and hardware/software capacity for their own sites. While John & I have arrived in this position almost by default / duty, we really need others to help.
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| thijsdegraaf |
Posted on 03-05-2025 10:22
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Member Location: Bergen (NH) Posts: 838 Joined: 21.10.08 |
Hi Chris Until 2020 I wrote information about bugs and aphids for Waarneming. After some differences of opinion, I stopped and became a regular member again (no longer a member of the forum, where you have to be a separate member). I still regularly send in insect photos. My Tachinid flies are checked there by Theo Zeegers as administrator. That's why I thought he had contacts there. Weia Reinboud, who opened this topic, is the dragonfly administrator there. I'm afraid I can't really help myself Diptera as a retired teacher with insects as a hobby but not a specialist. At the time I was in contact with Hisko de Vries, one of the founders of the website. But I understand that he is retiring. The problem may be that they simplify their forum and focus on submitting observations that are checked. You can find him here on the forum https://forum.waa...305.0.html But I think it would be better if you contact Theo about it. Regards, Thijs Edited by thijsdegraaf on 04-05-2025 07:52 http://www.tuin-t...engels.htm |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 05-05-2025 13:07
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Hi Thijs Thanks for the information - I agree, organisations in the Netherlands who knew Paul and might have an interest in helping, need to be approached by people in the entomology community there. I can't be the broker in that kind of deal. I know Theo is busy right now and has left the job to John and myself to try to keep the existing set-up running, which should be possible, with Nikita's input and from other people in the community. We just need to work out how to transfer the money into the hosting account, which I hope John can work out as he understands these things a bit better than I do. Chris R. Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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