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Born Nov 26 2007
(C2/MP) Build 650 (rev latest)
See Uruguay

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This user volunteers in OLPC Support.

IRC	Nick: ixo `irc.freenode.net`

This user is a spare parts hound.

Bellingham

- LinuxFest Northwest 2008
- OLPC Bellingham : Repair Center (original proposal), inventory notes

Top wiki pages

Volunteers start here:

OLPC_volunteers_portal, Curators_and_coordinators, Support_meetings, XO Troubleshooting Guide

XO addons:

Top activities: elements, xo-get, XoIRC, Speak, DrGeo, Clock, Doom, Colors!
Top Linux commands: Firefox, Opera, rsync , mc, thunar, xeyes, xawtv
My own projects: Activities , Linux Scripts , Templates,

Wiki clean up:

Top offsite

XO Map , Roadmap, OSUOSL.org, Nepal, Learning Org, current build#, Solar drinking water, Stumbleupon

My notes

XO laptop, /TODO, /Triage, scripts, Presentation, Builds, 7

Other

Some wiki Templates I've added: {{:RightTOC}}
G1G1: Seeding Mongolia (10K), Haiti (1K), Rwanda (1K), Ethiopia (1K), Cambodia (1K), and Afghanistan (1K).

My Background

(Picture from Second Life)

(Picture from Lego World)

(Real-Life #1)

(Real-Life #2)

Summary Details

Name: ixo or iainD or iain or guy with funny hat
Location: Bellingham, WA, USA
- (Pacific Northwest: between Vancouver, BC, Canada and Seattle, Washington State)
Proud owner of a Nov 12th, G1G1 OLPC - XO-1 Laptop (MP) - arrived Dec 20th 2007.
- (also purchased another one for local relative, 2 laptops were donated via G1G1 program)
- Regional XO Repair center (4+ XOs in various stages of repair)

Experience

Recycler and eWaste Manager: 30+ years
IT Manager and Consultant: 20+ years
Server/Services Management: 15+ years
Volunteer with local non-profit organizations: 10+ years.
Web 2.0 / Website development: 8+ years
Wiki management / user: 7+ years
Linux 'sysAdmin'/User experience: Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, OpenSuSE

Odd factoid

Has Museum of Technology: 3 rooms filled with historical and unique technology.
- Examples: IBM PC (286/386), Tandy 1000, Apple IIe/MacPlus/MacSE/MacIIcs/IIe,
- Commodore C64/Amiga/Pet, Atari 2600/7800, iPortal, Vectrex, etc .
- Mac Plus, SE, SE/30, IIci, IIgs, Performas, iMac 350/500, etc.
- i386/i586: PI 166, PII 400, PIII 800/1G, P4 1.8/2.4/2.6, AMD, and others....

Further details

More available: http://notes.homelinux.org/index.php/User:IainDavidson
Full Resume: http://resume.homelinux.org

Offsite linkages

Assoc of Bellingham Neighborhoods: http://aobn.org
RE Sources : http://RESources.org
Womencare Shelter : http://WomencareShelter.org
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO Laptop: http://laptop.org
Free Geek : http://freegeek.org
10 Dollar e Reader : http://wikibox.googlepages.com/home
Stumbleupon image-blog: http://Iain-Davidson.stumbleupon.com
time zone array

XO Sightings

2008 Travels By ixo, Jan 21-27th, 2008. Costa Rica, July 29-Aug 3rd : Glacier Bay Alaska

Glacier Bay, Alaska, United States
By ixo, August 1st, 2008
Monteverde, Costa-Rica (contential divide, 1,500 m altitude) 40 mph winds
By ixo, Jan 25, 2008
2008 Jan, ixo with XO on vacation- Samara, Costa Rica
Arenal Volcano, from Arenal Hotel, Costa-Rica
By ixo, Jan 21, 2008
Lake Arenal (with windmills on montain edge), Costa-Rica
By ixo, Jan 22, 2008

Approach

Very open minded, and always interested in hearing ideas, suggestions, or feedback. Please leave a message on my talk page or just start up a conversation. Preferred sharing license:

Creative Commons

license 3.0

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-|}</div>{{User irc |ixo|#olpc #olpc-help #olpc-support-gang |irc.freenode.net }}{{User community repair}}
+|}</div>{{User irc |ixo|<span style='font-size:.6em;">#olpc #olpc-help #olpc-support-gang </span>|irc.freenode.net }}{{User community repair}}
-{{userboxbottom}} {{RightTOC}}
+{{userboxbottom}}
+[[Image:olpc-tshirt-green.jpeg|center|200px]]
+{{RightTOC}}
+==== Bellingham ====
+** [[LinuxFest Northwest 2008]]
+** [[OLPC Bellingham]] : [[OLPC_Bellingham/Repair_center|Repair Center]] ([[OLPC Bellingham/Repair center proposal|original proposal]]), [[OLPC_Bellingham/Repair_center/inventory|inventory notes]]
 ==== Top wiki pages ====
-* [[Weekly zine]]: [[Weekly_zine/0]], [[Weekly_zine/1]]
+* [[Weekly zine]], [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], [[Repair_centers]], [[Peripherals]]
+* [[Hardware_specification|Hardware Specs]], [[Keyboard_Shortcuts|Keyboard shortcuts]], [http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&user=ixo|User Logs]
-* [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], [[Talk:Repair_centers]]
+* [http://dev.laptop.org dev], [http://wiki.laptop.org/teamwiki teamwiki]
-* [[Hardware_specification|Hardware Specs]], [[Keyboard_Shortcuts|Keyboard shortcuts]], [[http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&user=ixo|User Logs]]
 ==== Volunteers start here: ====
-* [[Portal:Volunteers]], [[Curators_and_coordinators]], [[OLPC_volunteers_portal]], [[Support_meetings]],
+* [[OLPC_volunteers_portal]], [[Curators_and_coordinators]],  [[Support_meetings]], [[XO Troubleshooting Guide]]
-==== XO Activities: ====
+==== XO addons: ====
-* Top addons: [[Midnight Commander]], [[Thunar]], [[XoIRC]], [[Speak]], [[FireFox]], [[DrGeo]], [[Clock]], [[Xeyes]], [[Doom]]
+* Top activities:  [[elements]], [[xo-get]], [[XoIRC]], [[Speak]], [[DrGeo]], [[Clock]], [[Doom]], [[Colors!]]
+* Top Linux commands:  [[Firefox]], [[Opera]], [[rsync]] , [[Midnight Commander|mc]], [[thunar]], [[xeyes]], [[xawtv]]
-* My own projects: [[/Project|Activities]] , [[/Template|Templates]], Terminal linux command [[/scripts|Scripts]]
+* My own projects: [[/Project|Activities]] , [[/Script|Linux Scripts]] , [[/Template|Templates]],
 ===== Wiki clean up: =====
-* [[Wiki cleanup]], [[Wiki Page Restructuring Common Room]], [[Table of Contents]]
+* [[Wiki cleanup]], [[Wiki Page Restructuring Common Room]], [[Table of Contents]], [[:Category:drafts]]
-* [[Glossary]], [[Site map]], [[Content stamping]], [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[Sugar_Control_Panel]], [[User Boxes]]
+* [[Glossary]], [[Site map]], [[Content stamping]], [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[Sugar_Control_Panel]], [[User boxes]]
+* [[Special:Newpages]],
 ==== Top offsite ====
-* [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=114558805698125207804.000001132ad0d5f3d14f8&ll=40.111689,-97.470703&spn=30.004645,54.580078&z=4&om=0&iwloc=000001132ad22c56b15d4 XO Map] , [http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap Roadmap], [http://olpc.osuosl.org/ OSUOSL.org], [http://iain-davidson.stumbleupon.com Stumbleupon], [http://www.olenepal.org/activities_download.html Nepal, Learning Org], [http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build-number current build#]
+* [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=114558805698125207804.000001132ad0d5f3d14f8&ll=40.111689,-97.470703&spn=30.004645,54.580078&z=4&om=0&iwloc=000001132ad22c56b15d4 XO Map] , [http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap Roadmap], [http://olpc.osuosl.org/ OSUOSL.org], [http://www.olenepal.org/activities_download.html Nepal, Learning Org], [http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build-number current build#], [http://www.sodis.ch/Text2002/T-Howdoesitwork.htm Solar drinking water], [http://iain-davidson.stumbleupon.com Stumbleupon]
 ==== My notes ====
+* [[/Notes|XO laptop]], [[/TODO|/TODO]], [[/Triage]], [[/Script|scripts]], [[/Presentation|Presentation]],  [[/Builds|Builds]], [[/Seven Challenges|7]]
-[[/Notes|XO laptop]],
-[[/TODO|/TODO]],
-[[/Triage]],
-[[/Scripts|scripts]],
-[[/Presentation|Presentation]],
-or using  [[/rsync backup|rsync for backup]].
-[[/Builds|Builds]],
-[[/Seven Challenges|7]],
 ===== Other =====
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 [[Image:User-IainDavidson-sl.jpg|thumb|150px|Right|(Picture from Second Life)]]
 [[Image:User-IainDavidson-lego.jpg|thumb|150px|Right|(Picture from Lego World)]]
-[[Image:User-IainDavidson-xo.jpg|thumb|150px|Right|(Picture taken on XO)]]
+[[Image:User-IainDavidson.png|thumb|150px|Right|(Real-Life #1)]]
-[[Image:User-IainDavidson.png|thumb|150px|Right|(Picture Real-Life)]]
 [[Image:User-IainDavidson-glow.png|thumb|150px|Right|(Real-Life #2)]]
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 * Proud owner of a Nov 12th, G1G1 OLPC - XO-1 Laptop (MP) - arrived Dec 20th 2007.
 ** (also purchased another one for local relative, 2 laptops were donated via G1G1 program)
+** Regional XO Repair center (4+ XOs in various stages of repair)
 Experience
+* Recycler and eWaste Manager: 30+ years
 * IT Manager and Consultant: 20+ years
 * Server/Services Management: 15+ years
-* Volunteer with local non-profits organizations: 10+ years.
+* Volunteer with local non-profit organizations: 10+ years.
 * Web 2.0 / Website development: 8+ years
 * Wiki management / user: 7+ years
 * Linux 'sysAdmin'/User experience: Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, OpenSuSE
-Equipment working, available for testing
-* i386/i586: PI 166, PII 400, PIII 800/1G, P4 1.8/2.4/2.6
-* Mac Plus, iMac 350/500
 Odd factoid
 * Has '''Museum of Technology''': 3 rooms filled with historical and unique technology.
 ** ''Examples:'' IBM PC (286/386), Tandy 1000, Apple IIe/MacPlus/MacSE/MacIIcs/IIe,
 ** Commodore C64/Amiga/Pet, Atari 2600/7800, iPortal, Vectrex, etc .
+** Mac Plus, SE, SE/30, IIci, IIgs, Performas, iMac 350/500, etc.
+** i386/i586: PI 166, PII 400, PIII 800/1G, P4 1.8/2.4/2.6, AMD, and others....
 = Further details =
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 * [http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?p1=234&p2=179&p3=136&p4=0|Global time zone array]
+{{clear}}
 = XO Sightings =
-By iainD, Jan 21-27th, 2008. Costa Rica travels.
+Travels By ixo, Jan 21-27th, 2008. Costa Rica, July 29-Aug 3rd : Glacier Bay Alaska
+<gallery>
-[[Image:XO-Sightings-Arenal_Volcano-Costa-Rica.jpg|250px|By ixo, Jan 21, 2008]]
+Image:XO-Sightings-Glacier-Bay-Alaska-USA.jpg|Glacier Bay, Alaska, United States<br/>By ixo, August 1st, 2008
-[[Image:XO-Sightings-Monteverde-Costa-Rica.jpg|By ixo, Jan 25, 2008|250px]]
+Image:XO-Sightings-Monteverde-Costa-Rica.jpg|Monteverde, Costa-Rica (contential divide, 1,500 m altitude) 40 mph winds<br/>By ixo, Jan 25, 2008
+Image:Weekly-zine-0-Greetings.jpg|300px|2008 Jan, ixo with XO on vacation- Samara, Costa Rica
-[[Image:XO-Sightings-Lake_Arenal-Costa-Rica.jpg|By ixo, Jan 22, 2008|250px]]
+Image:XO-Sightings-Arenal_Volcano-Costa-Rica.jpg|Arenal Volcano, from Arenal Hotel, Costa-Rica<br/>By ixo, Jan 21, 2008
-[[Image:Weekly-zine-0-Greetings.jpg|400px|thumb|center|2008 Jan, ixo with XO on vacation- Samara, Costa Rica]]
+Image:XO-Sightings-Lake_Arenal-Costa-Rica.jpg|Lake Arenal (with windmills on montain edge), Costa-Rica<br/>By ixo, Jan 22, 2008
+</gallery>
-Descriptions:
-* Arenal Volcano, from Arenal Hotel, Costa-Rica
-* Lake Arenal (with windmills on montain edge), Costa-Rica
-* Monteverde, Costa-Rica (contential divide, 1,500 m altitude) 40 mph winds
 = Approach =
-Very open minded, and always interested in hearing ideas or feedback.  Please leave a message on my talk page or just start up a conversation.
+Very open minded, and always interested in hearing ideas, suggestions, or feedback.  Please leave a message on my talk page or just start up a conversation. Preferred sharing license: {{OBX license cc|by-nc-sa|3.0}}
-Preferred sharing license: {{OBX license cc|by-nc-sa|3.0}}

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