User:Ixo

User Boxes

Olpcboxes Born Nov 26 2007 (C2/MP) Build 650 (rev latest) See Uruguay This user's time zone is UTC-8 (PST). en This user is a native speaker of English. @ Mail me... (wiki mail)

Volunteer in

help@ This user volunteers in OLPC Support. IRC Nick: ixo #olpc #olpc-help #olpc-support-gang Server: irc.freenode.net This user is a spare parts hound.

Top wiki pages

Weekly zine: Weekly_zine/0, Weekly_zine/0/ed, Weekly_zine/0/wiki-report, Weekly zine/1/wiki-report

OLPC:Wiki News, OLPC:News, Hardware Specs, Keyboard shortcuts,

Top Volunteer pages

Curators_and_coordinators, OLPC_volunteers_portal, Support_meetings,

Wiki Projects

Activities:

• My own User:ixo/Project list.

Pages cleaning up Wiki Page Restructuring Common Room, Wiki cleanup

• Glossary, Site map, Content stamping, OLPC:Wiki News, Sugar_Control_Panel, User Boxes

Top offsite

XO Map , Roadmap, OSUOSL.org, Stumbleupon, Nepal, Learning Org

My notes

XO laptop, TODO, User:IainD/Triage, scripts, Presentation, or using rsync for backup. 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)

(Picture taken on XO)

(Picture Real-Life)

(Real-Life #2)

Summary Details

• Name: Iain D
• 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 dontated via G1G1 program)

Experience

• IT Manager and Consultant: 20+ years
• Server/Services Management: 15+ years
• Volunteer with local non-profits 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 .

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

By iainD, Jan 21-27th, 2008. Costa Rica travels.

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.

Preferred sharing license: