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Template:Userboxtop Chris Watkins
a.k.a. Chriswaterguy

My homepage tells you more about my history.
Template:Userbox tasks Template:User watsan Template:User EWB Australia Template:User topicadmin Template:User porting helper Track changes: Water · Flood control · Water conservation · Water supply· Solar distillation · Rainwater Template:User topicadmin Track changes: Sanitation · Composting toilet Template:User topicadmin Track changes: Culture and development Template:Userboxbreak Registered on Appropedia on 26 June 2006. Template:Boxbottom

I'm an Australian engineer with a passion for sharing knowledge to make a better world, and I've been involved in Appropedia since the very early days. I'm based in Melbourne.

What I do here

DOING:

A:Service learning and related pages.
Brochures, firstly for service learning (with the skills of people who understand these graphic design and such).
A:Internships
A:Funding (hoping to have a crowdfunding campaign started for September)
Partnership with EWB-Australia, esp putting EWB Challenge finalist entries onto Appropedia.
Communications - getting more interaction happening between us in the Appropedia community, through A:IRC meetings or Google Hangouts, and by moderating the discussion lists.
Community interviews for the Appropedia blog. Planning to start in September 2012.
Blog posts about announcements, our vision, and why all this matters.

DID - in the past, and can help as needed:

Our spam filters & spam link blacklist.
Pywikipediabot for performing "gnome" tasks (I run ChriswaterguyBot)
Moving category pages to mainspace when needed (conserving history by using the export and import functions)
Work on the meta pages about Appropedia.
Promoting Appropedia (want to find interns and volunteers to work with on this, instead)
Welcoming new people. (You're still welcome - I just don't patrol new users!)

WANT - but don't have time to do myself:

Porting - esp finding help in converting appropriate PDF documents and web pages to MediaWiki markup. This can be a great intern job (esp if the intern has access to Adobe Reader Professional).

Custom search engines

Sometimes I make custom search engines, like Public Domain Search, or this Linux search (for the occasions when I want to strictly search only Linux-related sites):

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More

My favorite videos (on appropriate technology etc) are on my Youtube homepage.

Contact me via my talk page, or try me on instant messenger:

Google's mail chat: singkong

Skype: chriswaterguy

Or call (In Indonesia): 0821-22-007-049

Microblogging: Identi.ca & Twitter

Follow me on Identi.ca, an open source microblogging service with cool features (and more control over your own content: @chriswaterguy. (I'm also on Twitter at the same username: @chriswaterguy).

I manage Appropedia's accounts also: @@appropedia (Identica) and @appropedia (Twitter), and my personal Identica account and Twitter account. Below are the Twitter feeds:

@appropedia

@chriswaterguy (personal)

My blog posts

Here's my old blog. New blog coming soon...

I also blog on the Appropedia Blog.

Content ideas

Feel free to look at or use anything from my Content/Ideas page.

Subpages

Priority:

Tasks: User:Chriswaterguy/Tasks (Shortlist, what I plan to be working on right now.)
Category:Chriswaterguy's working pages - especially Strategy 2012 (which includes prep for Board of Directors meetings).

Appropedia content:

Notes for mainpace: User:Chriswaterguy/Content
Drafts for mainspace: User:Chriswaterguy/Incubator
Carbon capture and storage (mix of content for mainspace and for openCCS): User:Chriswaterguy/CCS

Wiki management:

Site tech: User:Chriswaterguy/Tech
Wikignome work (repetitive site tasks: User:Chriswaterguy/Wikignome

Meta & strategy:

Appropedia Foundation and strategy: User:Chriswaterguy/AF
Appropedia Blog, ideas for posts: User:Chriswaterguy/Blog
Communications: User:Chriswaterguy/Comms
Appropedia partnerships: User:Chriswaterguy/Partnerships

Non-Appropedia:

Misc personal notes: User:Chriswaterguy/Non-Appropedia
Custom search engines: User:Chriswaterguy/Search

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 I'm an Australian engineer with a passion for sharing knowledge to make a better world, and I've been involved in Appropedia since the very early days. I'm based in Melbourne.
-=== What I'm up to ===
+=== What I do here ===
 '''DOING''':
 * '''[[A:Service learning]]''' and related pages.
-* '''Brochures''' for service learning.
+* '''Brochures''', firstly for service learning (with the skills of people who understand these graphic design and such).
 * '''[[A:Internships]]'''
 * '''[[A:Funding]]''' (hoping to have a '''crowdfunding''' campaign started for September)
 * '''Partnership with EWB-Australia''', esp putting EWB Challenge finalist entries onto Appropedia.
+* '''Communications''' - getting more interaction happening between us in the Appropedia community, through [[A:IRC]] meetings or Google Hangouts, and by moderating the [[A:discussion lists|discussion lists]].
 * '''Community interviews''' for the Appropedia blog. Planning to start in September 2012.
 * '''Blog posts''' about announcements, our vision, and why all this matters.
-'''DID''' - I've worked on these in the past (and can help as needed):
+'''DID''' - in the past, and can help as needed:
 * Our [[Special:AbuseFilter|spam filters]] & [[MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist|spam link blacklist]].
 * [[A:Pywikipediabot|Pywikipediabot]] for performing "gnome" tasks (I run [[User:ChriswaterguyBot|ChriswaterguyBot]])