WikiSITA | Patrick Servant | Group Activity https://wikisita.com/members/patrick_servant/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Patrick Servant is a member. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:50:49 +0200 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 af71b25c8f8b1d55a6cb378383ab8680 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Célébration ARASITA 40 à Genève en 2026 to There is life after SITA! https://wikisita.com/activity/p/1009/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:01:40 +0100 Le groupe d’anciens de SITA de Genève annonce la création d’un évènement prévu de se tenir à Genève fin mai 2026 pour célébrer le 40ième anniversaire de création des groupes d’anciens de SITA . Annonce ci-jointe

]]> 0 d49b73bb25b0cc9d09e059f6c016ada9 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: ARASITA 40 event in Geneva in 2026 to There is life after SITA! https://wikisita.com/activity/p/1008/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:57:57 +0100 The ARASITA group in Geneva has set to organize an event, to be held end of May 2026 in Geneva to celebrate the 40 anniversary of the creation of ARASITA groups worldwide.

]]> 0 fa0f9a227d3985475ce629f68c26ed69 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Extracts from Fausto^s recently published book, a memoir about his professional life with the airline industry and SITA to Anecdotes / Stories https://wikisita.com/activity/p/1007/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:23:51 +0100 Second exerpt

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]]> 0 d4bf240512a80319538de4fc95331af7 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: My Life From a Window Seat - a Memoir , by Fausto Gardini to Anecdotes / Stories https://wikisita.com/activity/p/997/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:51:55 +0100 Fausto Gardini has published a book in which he shares the souvenirs of his professional life in the airline industry and SITA. He shares with us exerpts from his book, which may be bought on Amazon (or directly from the author)

]]> 0 ea182460d0ee41653c89cfe28264e809 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Estivale des Arts Martiaux - Nice (France) 07 September 2024 to There is life after SITA! https://wikisita.com/activity/p/988/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:23:10 +0100 I have had the opportunity to organize and run a conference and demonstration of Japanese martial arts at the Musée National du Sporet in Nice (Fraqnce) on 07 September 2024. Both classical martials (Kobudo) such as Kenjutsu and Jodo, as well as modern martial arts (Shinbudo) such as Judo and Aikido were demonstrated and explained. The panel…

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]]> 0 76b3df611c3f353d15742a2bfbe7a67f Jacques Bernard joined the group Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/841/ Mon, 08 May 2023 10:52:09 +0200 0 2f75235a05beeaf14b29c3ada31b8722 Benoit Vedel uploaded the file: SITA Paris moves to a new site! to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/838/ Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:05:35 +0100 SITA Paris was locatred at 112 avenue CHarles De Gaulle since 1968. In March 2023, SITA is moving to a new buiulding (see https://www.carre-suffren-paris.com/) in the 15 th district of Paris.
On this occasion, a (hybrid) Town Hall event has been organized on 09 March 2023. Here is the presentation which I have prepared for this celebration.

]]> 0 fe2372191881b49edce26d53e88925eb Benoit Vedel joined the group Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/837/ Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:52:52 +0100 0 d60b7c030fa4e5359b336cea8e66920a Andrée Haubert joined the group Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/834/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:48:06 +0100 0 6c89bf4888ff7c166d4c0acdc0ffba5d Ray Roberts uploaded the file: Children of Tibet to There is life after SITA! https://wikisita.com/activity/p/766/ Fri, 25 Nov 2022 09:38:28 +0100 In 2001 I was working in Beijing and joined a group of 20 people on a mission to Qinghai in northern Tibet, to take school supplies and support the children of Tibet. The Swiss ambassador to China had acted as a go-between Tibet and China after the invasion. The Swissair station manager in Beijing, Marcus Shmidt and his wife Anne-Marie carried on…[Read more]

]]> 0 f65dfc9216a57b946da0d4136027c443 Ray Roberts joined the group There is life after SITA! https://wikisita.com/activity/p/765/ Fri, 25 Nov 2022 09:36:39 +0100 0 ccb6d966856e73970d879cc2884e1d19 Bernard Leroy uploaded the file: Khun Salak to Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/764/ Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:33:31 +0100 Coming from Indochina I had been appointed Manager for Thailand on the 1st of February
1964 and one of my first jobs at Bangkok was the recruitment of Khun Salak with whom,
although I did not expect it at that time, I was going to work closely with for more than three
decades expanding our organization all over the Far East and Pacific area.
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]]> 0 3fecd800221b5c794798c6f3e58d19fe Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: Wikisita members 05/07/2022 in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/758/ Tue, 05 Jul 2022 09:47:00 +0200 0 cff53f58cb1c58761ef72428ff418cee Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Le Musée de Bernard d'Agesci à Niort to There is life after SITA! https://wikisita.com/activity/p/747/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 18:24:24 +0100 Cet article, transmis par Jean-Pierre Gaudard, du journal le Monde, parle d’une exposition d’instruments scientifiques au musée Bernard d’Agesci de Niort. Ruedi Bebié, dont la passion était la collection d’instruments scientifiques et livres anciens a fait don à ce musée de ses collections à ce musée de Niort et a participé à la création…[Read more]

]]> 0 9344c40f27df3602d8232e2a59643bc9 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA and SWIFT in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/746/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 18:04:01 +0100 0 48f8ed8142504c640eae73bae7338106 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: SITA and SWIFT to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/745/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:05:03 +0100 Many of us know that SITA has inspired the creation of SWIFT, the bylaws of which were a copy of those of SITA, which resulted in some turmoil for SITA. WE can see that strangely this poroximity between the two organizations continue, as in this article from The Economist about SWIFT facing pressure to disconnect Russians banks as part of economic…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb043df5edfeb7222c2dbbd32f86381d Bernard Leroy edited the file: Tibet in Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/736/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 19:12:47 +0100 0 d1e1fadd7d2bfcd1665c952ea1e274bb Bernard Leroy uploaded the file: Tibet to Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/735/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 19:02:39 +0100 The first time I went to Tibet the country was already in a transition period
and in full effervescence, the people were handling the move towards a
more modern world. Since that time, like in the whole Far East, the
changes have been tremendous.

]]> 0 8ffa88b3ae655cd41355113fa27822d6 Peter Dallaway joined the group There is life after SITA! https://wikisita.com/activity/p/729/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 15:12:56 +0200 0 4763724ea3ea3528073c0bd99bb5a72f Jean-Michel Kaliszewski posted an update in the group There is life after SITA!: As mentioned in Wikisita news n°81, I have organized another […] https://wikisita.com/activity/p/717/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:18:52 +0200 As mentioned in Wikisita news n°81, I have organized another conference which was held as a Zoom webinar on Tuesday 22 June 2021. This conference was organized in the framework of the Joint Alumni Forum, which is a social responsibility network of university alumni associations in Switzerland (Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Oxford, Cambridge,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e82a477298353b0377bb28b881fbb0fb Dries Bessels joined the group There is life after SITA! https://wikisita.com/activity/p/714/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:28:28 +0200 0 64038bdd2e89940339735be5f7c6b828 Dries Bessels joined the group Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/713/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:28:26 +0200 0 634856340f92a5316dd90e8df28bb1e6 Bernard Leroy uploaded the file: By train from Beijing to Lhasa.pdf to Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/710/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 20:33:21 +0200 0 19fabf080fb47d81ed5804f56f457055 Bernard Leroy uploaded the file: Springtime and lockdown to Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/709/ Fri, 28 May 2021 12:31:56 +0200 0 164a92c06a1274d9c0997f1277222512 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Wikisita members to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/705/ Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:16:55 +0200 List of Wikisita members as of 13 April 2021

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]]> 0 925884932ab69c27fab8371388a4dcd9 Bernard Leroy posted an update in the group Far East: « An Hui « or « the Cradle of Chinese Landscape Pa […] https://wikisita.com/activity/p/668/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:41:48 +0100 « An Hui « or « the Cradle of Chinese Landscape Painting” here is the link : https://www.dropbox.com/s/dt6sahfj86xu28d/An%20Hui.mp4?dl=0C

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The Falklands war between Argentina and UK had sparked my interest in this region. .
I am pleased to share with you the movie made during my trip there.

]]> 0 f37778b0ef2893253a6f13866e23823f Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/657/ Sat, 14 Nov 2020 13:37:23 +0100 0 bb12fdc3e0ae9595626f6ca58be0ec38 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/656/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:53:01 +0100 0 2102cf5f75be6af9da3372b0f64cc589 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/655/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 15:21:46 +0100 0 89780a6799b0ab79795a5c157a771eb5 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: SITA's History: The First 30 Years to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/654/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:40:49 +0100 In this document published in 1979 in the “SITA ANNUAL REPORT 1978”, SITA’s history is presented in detail , icluding the role of the founding airlines and their representative.
A very unique tribute to the role of all those who made SITA possible as a worldwide reality!

]]> 0 f1c894d2f31f183c328fe31ede251bec Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/652/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 21:04:14 +0100 0 1537f9eff4c5522f89578cdd3cf83971 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: The SITA network in the 70's to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/651/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:32:27 +0100 This technical paper was authored by G Chrétien, W Konig and J Rech and published in 1975 in the NATO Advanced Study Series on Computer Communication Networks.
The SITA network as it stood before the deployment of the DTN is
fully described.

]]> 0 eaaa349ad780e9031f98455b61f8fdbd Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/650/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 14:45:24 +0100 0 0adf947296108482dcf07d4cc6d9939c Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HLN and First Type A transmission with BEA in 1971 in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/649/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:46:17 +0100 0 3fcd47a56cabcff864e61c45cbc3bab3 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski deleted the file: Methods to Control and Operate a Message-Switching Network from Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/648/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:38:30 +0100 0 2bbafeb20c953078882a1d6be0fc0e44 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski deleted the file: Methods to Control and Operate a Message-Switching Network from Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/647/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:38:18 +0100 0 7117dac10953365cde16a2f61329524c Jean-Michel Kaliszewski deleted the file: Methods to Control and Operate a Message-Switching Network from Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/646/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:38:07 +0100 0 edeae4a7f363fe9ae11e739d10d9137d Jean-Michel Kaliszewski deleted the file: Methods to Control and Operate a Message-Switching Network from Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/645/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:37:51 +0100 0 fab332497056b5387ecd224d45f201f6 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Methods to Control and Operate a Message-Switching Network to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/644/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:37:38 +0100 This paper, written by Joachim Brandt and Georges Chrétien, was presented at the Symposium on Computer Communications Networks and Teletraffic, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, April 4-6, 1972.
In this paper the principal methods to control and operate a store-and-forward network are considered. The Sita network and Type A and Type B traffic…[Read more]

]]> 0 88d65131933fcd4a147c25da62be84b8 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/640/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:31:56 +0100 0 5ea704fcbc8b5fce2ff3e1bbf729f580 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/639/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:15:04 +0100 SITA Head Office was located, until 1968 at 9, rue Théodore de Banville in Paris. A photograph of that building is shown in this documment.
You will also find another picture (taken in 1978?) of a meeting held apparently in Vancouver and on which we can recognize some young men: Solly Dwek, K.S. Molenaar and D. Andorka.

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