Welcome to the homepage of Chris Watkins
| My collaborations |
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Development stuff |
| Appropedia - Appropriate technology, development, sustainability. User page |
| Nabuur.com - "The global neighbour network." Assisting mainly with water and sanitation. User page |
| Development-related topics on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia user page.
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| Wikipedia - The concept inspires me. User page. I'm involved in several WikiProjects (collaborations to improve content) including: |
| Climate change Energy development |
| Learning & teaching at Wikibooks. Wikipedia user page. |
| Mainly Indonesian and English.
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| Wiki-based communities: Wikia.com has a number of community sites. My user page has miscellaneous net-related stuff, and links to the Wikia communities I'm watching. |
| Political: Wikia Campaigns, and also the Australian Greens' wiki... still experimental. |
| I'm looking and waiting for a community recipes site - for now see my recipes and recipe links.
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| Other exciting free sites |
| CouchSurfing - share your couch or spare bed. It can be a great experience. My username: Singkong |
| HelpX - work for accomodation. For work in Asia & developing nations, free. Most advanced nations, free reg, 10 euros/2 years to make contact with hosts. |
| OkCupid The most interesting dating site, with the most accurate matching, completely free. My username: Bayangan |
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| My other writing - see the blue box on the right. |
| Chris Watkins |
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| Languages:
English (native) Indonesian (fluent) Malaysian (conversational) Japanese & German (very basic - thanks, excuse me, delicious, mein linke Blinker ist kaput...). |
| My writing |
| Blog. Still deciding on a place... I'd like to figure out transclusion and RSS, and maybe even automatically list links to my most recent topics in a table on this page... Here's my out of date blog. |
| My recipes. Pleasure & health. |
| a.k.a. "Singkong2005" |
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| I love the way the internet facilitates collaboration, and I'm quite involved in several collaborations, as you can see in the box on the left. |
| Plans |
| Sometime in the second half of 2006 I'm heading to Asia on a one-way ticket. I'll visit and learn from development projects, gain experience and use it (perhaps) for a career, and (definitely) to share via Appropedia and Wikipedia. Partly, though, it's a lifestyle thing - I don't enjoy living in Australia, and long to get back to Indonesia, and explore other countries as well, broadening my horizons. |
| To help pay my way, I have a 3 options: |
| * Development work (probably further down the track) |
| * Exporting - I have some experience with this, so I'll be looking for those things that I know I can reliably sell. I specialise in scarves and shawls. |
| * English teaching. I think I'll enjoy this. Getting a gig at a university would be ideal. |
| If and when I do English language teaching, I plan to collaborate on lesson planning, using: Wikibooks, Dave's ESL Cafe, and perhaps The Teachers' Lounge, and TeachForward (not running yet). |