Dave Cushman

[wilderness]

On another list, I read with great sadness that Dave Cushman has died. A great loss to beekeeping.

 

[Poly Hive]

Thanks for the heads up.

A wonderful man and yes he will be missed.

I wonder though what will happen to his web site?

PH

 

[Monsieur Abeille]

Thats a real shame. His website is/was one of the best resources on the net.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Oh no, how sad.
I hope the website remains in one form or the other; a great resource I agree.

 

[BKF Admin]

Has the funeral taken place yet?
If not I am happy to send some flowers on behalf of all forum members as we have all benefited from his website over the years.

A good Beekeeper and Engineer,RIP Dave xx

 

[drstitson]

great idea admin. i'm all for the gesture (and perhaps a subtle enquiry as to hosting the site???).

anyone got the wherewithall to grab/archive all the pages before it goes down?

 

[Haughton Honey]

That's very sad news indeed.

 

[Brosville]

Why not offer to host an archive of his site in his memory?

 

[psafloyd]

Has the funeral taken place yet?
If not I am happy to send some flowers on behalf of all forum members as we have all benefited from his website over the years.

A good Beekeeper and Engineer,RIP Dave xx

Does anyone know his family to ask if we might benefit from it in perpetuity by absorbing some of the fantastic information it contains? It would be a shame for all that knowledge to simply disappear.

 

[Rosti]

Very sad news indeed, I have taken great value from his web site over the years particularly where he combined is love of bees with his engineering background and as a result provided equipment build plans and instructions of absolute clarity.

On March 16 he was due to be speaking at York & Districts monthly meet on Bee Behaviour & Nest Integrity

 

[psafloyd]

Why not offer to host an archive of his site in his memory?

Great idea. The Dave Cushman Beekeeping Archive...

 

[BKF Admin]

Great idea. The Dave Cushman Beekeeping Archive...

Thats already in hand.

We have a full copy of the website and registered domains in his memory.

Mark
Admin

 

[Black Comb]

RIP Dave

Not only the information but the enthusiasm for beekeeping too.

 

[Adam]

Does anyone know his family to ask if we might benefit from it in perpetuity by absorbing some of the fantastic information it contains? It would be a shame for all that knowledge to simply disappear.

I've asked Roger Patterson, who is in touch with his family. He also ran the BIBBA website and when I last talked to him, his main site was hitting around 1million hits per year. He had material stored up to add to it as I sent him details of the measurements of the Woodbury hive not that long since. It is not just his family you have to ask, he also had material (e.g photographs) from others (like me) which may require a little more work to obtain continuing use.

Adam

 

[psafloyd]

A million hits? This forum could go mental.

 

[victor meldrew]

Has the funeral taken place yet?
If not I am happy to send some flowers on behalf of all forum members as we have all benefited from his website over the years.

A good Beekeeper and Engineer,RIP Dave xx

And Radio amateur
John Wilkinson(G4WIL)

 

[Mike a]

A silent mentor to me.

I spent many hours trolling his website looking for information and helpful advise. I'm sure he inspired many of us over the years with his passion and thoughts.

 

[rowbow]

RIP Dave, you will be missed on a Tuesday night, but we will have some cheese scones left over.

John

 

[jezd]

Very sad, managed to meet him last year at the convention, very pleasant/clever chap.

RIP Dave

 

[Adam]

A million hits? This forum could go mental.

Hits isn't the same as visitors. My beekeeping club website (which I've setup) manages 400,000 hits per year, and that averages out at 50,000 pages read, in 20,000 visits by 12,000 unique visitors

Here's an explanation of what hits are, for anyone geeky who is wondering what it all means!

http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/statistics/hits/