140 reads on wikisita on March 14!

On March 14 140 reads were recorded on wikisita: the highest number since wikisita was launched! Usually when new articles or documents are announced on wikisita, I see around 60 to 70 reads. But March 14 was special: we had planned a lunch in Geneva to be followed by a conference that I was to deliver. But due to the coronavirus breakout we had to cancel these events on March 13. Nevertheless 5 of us met at the café Papon in Geneva and I posted a picture of that gathering (this would no longer be possible in Geneva for the time being as no more than 4 people can gather for whatever reason in any public space). And the publication about this small feat attracted 140 reads on wikisita: obviously the event originally planned has raised a lot of interest in our community and hopefully we will be able to organize it again in a more welcoming future. Or may be you wondered: who has been foolish enough to meet despite the coronavirus breakout?

By the way March 13 was a very busy day for me. Besides managing the cancellations and coordinating with Solly about them, I was also receiving many calls from my martial arts club (450 members including circa 200 children) and had to take the decision and annouce it on the same day that we closing our club for the time being ( official decision from the Canton de Genève and from the Federal authorities confirming that such activities had to be stopped came a few days later). For all these reasons these two days, March 13 and 14, are a vivid memory for myself. I hope you are all well and in a safe environment and not exposed to the coronavirus threat and I heartfully thank you for your interest for wikisita!

About

I joined SITA Paris in June 1978 as an engineer in the Technical Studies department which was then managed by Georges Giraudbit. After developping planning tools for the HLN and later the DTN, I led the design and implementation of the new routing algorithm of the DTN. Later my team delivered the strategy and specification for migrating the network from airline specific protocols to open standards, and whichalso served for the RFP for the MTN. After working on developing projects for non-airline customers, I moved to SITA Geneva in 1999, in marketing and later fiance departments. In 2004 i left SITA to join IATA in Geneva. With IATA I first worked on launching and developing a new business based on providing credit card payment services to travel agencies. Then I moved to IT, in charge of all data management for successfully.implementing SAP at IATA. Once that project was over I joined the Cargo department at IATA, in charge of Technical developments. Having worked both at SITA and IATA has been a very unique experience for me!

Categories: Latest news |
[TOP]
Skip to toolbar