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Dear visitors, contributors and editors,
The time has come for one of our most respected editors to step down: due to health reasons CarlDennis aka Thom is leaving the team on December 1st as his energy is slowly but inevitably decreasing.
Thom enthusiastically joined our project in 2016. As a kick-off there was this pleasant lunch at Café La Pompe in St-Gilles...
...and from there it was the greatest of rides. Using his monniker CarlDennis, a reference to his admiration of the Beach Boys, he would build a lasting impact on SecondHandSongs and the cover songs community worldwide.
Simply looking at the numbers his legacy is huge:
- 472.790 entries created (8% of the entire database!)
- 10.030 submissions processed
- 42.201 videos added
But Thom is also the editor who made a huge push into indexing more non-English songs in the database: The sheer volume of songs in Finnish, Icelandic, Greek, and many other languages is truly impressive, and this is an important element that opened up this project to the many less represented countries.
However, mostly we will remember Thom for his openness and friendliness. Always in a good mood and always seeing the best in each and everyone us, regularly sailing us through difficult discussions and moments of tensions.
Thanks for your contributions Thom, your legacy will live on.
The SecondHandSongs Team
November 30th, 2021
PS: This tribute was also published on a dedicated page.
PS2: The editors have compiled a series of written messages, recordings and videos that we have sent to Thom personnally. Thanks everyone who participated in this.
To: Sara K.... Pommel Rodders200 casb Clee J Sylvain Guillou Will Moore abbamatic baggish camembert electrique Canary CarlDennis DashBoardDJ856 David King dudek hounddogman Limbabwe microtherion Nap nikitoz555 Oliver One SlimD walt dudek sebcat artsinspired Oldiesmann Mathieu
Last edit: 2021-12-01 06:53:33 UTC by Bastien
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