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Founder, [[Earth Treasury]]
Founder, [[Earth Treasury]], an NGO to link schools around the world for education and business


AKA Edward Cherlin
AKA Edward Cherlin
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法雲默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज
法雲默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज


[mailto:echerlin@gmail.com]
[mailto:echerlin@gmail.com My e-mail]


AIM or ICQ chat: mokurai
AIM or ICQ chat: mokurai


408 219 4178
408 219 4178

[http://www.linkedin.com/in/cherlin My LinkedIn profile]


When I wrote a guide for new Internet users at Newbie.Net, there were three questions I couldn't answer:
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)
* How to stop spam. So I founded the [http://www.cauce.org/ Coalition Against UCE] (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)
* 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].
* 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].
* 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.
* 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]].


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.
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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[[Math]]
[[Math]]


[[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] [http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/ gravity waves].
[[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].


Co-founder of global anti-spam organization, [http://www.cauce.org/ The Coalition Against UCE (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)]
Co-founder of global anti-spam organization, [http://www.cauce.org/ The Coalition Against UCE (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)]


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
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


[[Simputer]]: Simple, inexpensive, multilingual computer for poor people
[[Simputer]]: Simple, inexpensive, multilingual computer for poor people
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Village [[telemedicine]] over [[wireless]]
Village [[telemedicine]] over [[wireless]]


Science Fiction: John Brunner would have loved this 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?).
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?).


[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+++
[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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Revision as of 04:41, 18 March 2007

Founder, Earth Treasury, an NGO to link schools around the world for education and business

AKA Edward Cherlin

גרשון בן יסעף

Эдуард Георгеевич Черлын

장영구/張永久

法雲默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज

My e-mail

AIM or ICQ chat: mokurai

408 219 4178

My LinkedIn profile

When I wrote a guide for new Internet users at Newbie.Net, there were three questions I couldn't answer:

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.

Generalist

Buddhist priest, software developer, market researcher, technical writer, Peace Corps volunteer, cook, goatherd, music teacher...

I edited the Geode processor manuals for National Semiconductor, before they sold the product line to AMD. (The Laptop contains an AMD Geode processor.)

Languages: Hebrew, German, Latin, Russian, French, Swahili, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, Classical Greek, Lojban, Klingon

Programming languages: APL, LISP/Scheme, FORTH, SNOBOL, FORTRAN, COBOL, Algol, Java, C, C++, Pascal, Smalltalk, Python, scripting languages. And I'm learning Squeak.

Unicode

Free/Open Source Software: I-APL, Open Voting Consortium, others

Math

Science Check out Astronomy Picture of the Day and the world's biggest telescopes, for neutrinos and gravity waves.

Co-founder of global anti-spam organization, The Coalition Against UCE (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)

Music: Yale Concert Band and Marching Band, clarinet; First Prize, Classical, in first-ever Foreigner's Korean Music contest of the Korea Herald on gayageum; Slavyanka Russian Chorus; Music Around the World pre-school multilingual music program; banjo, recorders, spoons, piano, harpsichord, dumbek

Simputer: Simple, inexpensive, multilingual computer for poor people

Village telemedicine over wireless

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?).

Geek code GAT d-- s+:+ a+++ C++ UL++ P+ L+++ E- W++ N+++@ o+ K++ M+ b+++ e+++ h---- r+++ w--- APL++++ House, MD+++

en This user is a native speaker of English.
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