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Moved to [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai my Sugar Labs page] |
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Founder, [[Earth Treasury]], an NGO to link schools around the world for education and business |
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AKA Edward Mokurai Cherlin |
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גרשון בן יסעף |
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Эдуард Георгеевич Черлын |
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장영구/張永久 |
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法雲默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज |
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* [mailto:echerlin@gmail.com My e-mail] |
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* [http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/search?q=Mokurai&searchformsubmit=Search Public key] |
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AIM or ICQ chat: mokurai |
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408 219 4178 |
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* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/cherlin My LinkedIn profile] |
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* [http://livingdirectory.net/FF/ Friendly Favors] I'm FF10136 - Edward Cherlin |
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* [http://isde5.pbwiki.com/Earth_Treasury My Digital Earth wiki page] |
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When I wrote a guide for new Internet users at Newbie.Net, there were three questions I couldn't answer: |
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* How to stop spam. So I founded the [http://www.cauce.org/ Coalition Against UCE] (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail) |
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* How to view all languages correctly in browsers and other software. So I joined Unicode.org and a number of Free Software projects dealing with [http://www.mozilla.org browsers], [http://www.unifont.org/ fonts], [[keyboard layouts]], [[locales]], and [http://www.pango.org/ rendering software] for screen display and printing, and the [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/1997Apr/0003.html IETF standards process for multilingual URLs and URIs]. |
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* How to get everybody on the Net. So here I am. I have previously worked on [http://www.barwn.org/ wireless networking], satellite internet, and the [[Simputer]]. |
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I'm contributing information on [[countries]] and [[languages]] here, including [[writing systems]], [[fonts]], [[keyboard layouts]], sources of [[literature]], and other items of interest. I will be adding material on education and on the other impacts of the Laptop besides in education. It will have major effects in social development, [[health]], economic opportunity, politics, and other important areas. |
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I have started serious work on [[OLPC Publications|PC documentation]]. |
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Generalist |
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Buddhist priest, software developer, market researcher, technical writer, Peace Corps volunteer, cook, goatherd, music teacher... |
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I edited the [http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_9863_9919,00.html Geode processor manuals] for National Semiconductor, before they sold the product line to AMD. (The [[Hardware Specification|Laptop contains an AMD Geode processor.]]) |
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Languages: [[Hebrew]], [[German]], [[Latin]], [[Russian]], [[French]], [[Swahili]], [[Korean]], [[Japanese]], [[Chinese]], [[Sanskrit]], [[Pali]], [http://www.perseus.org/ Classical Greek], [http://www.lojban.org/ Lojban], [http://www.kli.org/tlh/pIqaD.html Klingon] |
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Programming languages: [[APL]], [[LISP]]/[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language%29 Scheme], [[FORTH]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL4 SNOBOL], FORTRAN, COBOL, Algol, [[Java]], C, C++, Pascal, [[Smalltalk]], [[Python]], scripting languages. And I'm learning [[Squeak]]. |
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[[Unicode]] |
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Free/[[Open Source]] Software: [http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/i-apl/ I-APL], [http://openvotingconsortium.org/ Open Voting Consortium], others |
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[[Math]] |
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[[Science]] Check out [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Astronomy Picture of the Day] and the world's biggest telescopes, for [http://icecube.wisc.edu/ neutrinos] and [http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/ gravity waves]. |
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Co-founder of global anti-spam organization, [http://www.cauce.org/ The Coalition Against UCE (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)] |
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Music: [http://www.yale.net/yaleband/ycb/index.html Yale Concert Band] and [http://www.yale.net/yaleband/ypmb/index.html Marching Band], clarinet; First Prize, Classical, in first-ever Foreigner's Korean Music contest of the [http://www.heraldm.com/english/sub-company_e02.asp Korea Herald] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayageum gayageum]; [http://www.slavyanka.org/ Slavyanka Russian Chorus]; [http://www.lgsrec.org/classes.php?catid=1&subcatid=2820 Music Around the World] pre-school multilingual music program; banjo, recorders, spoons, piano, harpsichord, dumbek |
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[[Simputer]]: Simple, inexpensive, multilingual computer for poor people |
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Village [[telemedicine]] over [[wireless]] |
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Science Fiction: John Brunner would have loved the OLPC project if he had lived to see it. Check out ''Stand on Zanzibar'' (includes national development projects in fictional countries), ''The Shockwave Rider'' (integrated disaster recovery and sustainable communities), ''The Sheep Look Up'' (environmental catastrophe), and ''The Stone that Never Come Down'' (What if people couldn't ignore information they have?). |
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[http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html Geek code] GAT d-- s+:+ a+++ C++ UL++ P+ L+++ E- W++ N+++@ o+ K++ M+ b+++ e+++ h---- r+++ w--- APL++++ House, MD+++ |
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Latest revision as of 15:49, 30 December 2008
Moved to my Sugar Labs page