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My name is Mel Chua, and this page describes the Appropedia-related projects I'm working on. Feel free to contact me with any comments, questions, or ideas you might have, or check and see if I'll be traveling near you sometime soon.

Interests

I'm an electrical and software engineer and community facilitator from Boston. As the first in my family to grow up outside the developing world (Philippines, China), I have an active interest in appropriate tech, especially the seldom-explored topic of how electrical and computer engineers, programmers and computer scientists, and other people involved with electrons can get involved. I've been involved administrating (both in the content/community and the technological sense) Mediawiki-based projects for several years and am keenly interested in decentralized collaboration, locally run hackathons and sprints, and university outreach and participation. I believe that integrating appropriate technology and open source into the undergraduate engineering curriculum will make all three communities of practice stronger.

Current goals and projects

Get Appropedia to choose and pursue measurable outcomes for the 2009 calendar year. Once those are chosen, I'll be adding more projects to this list.

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-My name is Mel Chua. I'm an engineer (electrical) from the Boston, MA area and the first in my family to grow up ''outside'' the developing world (Philippines, China), so I have an active interest in appropriate tech, especially the seldom-explored topic of how electrical and computer engineers, programmers and computer scientists, and other people involved with electrons can get involved.
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-I'm most active on the [http://wiki.laptop.org OLPC wiki] - you can find out more about me via my [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mchua userpage] there (it's fastest to reach me via my talk page on that wiki or through email - firstname at firstnamelastname dot dom).
+My name is [http://blog.melchua.com/about/ Mel Chua], and this page describes the Appropedia-related projects I'm working on. Feel free to [http://blog.melchua.com/contact/ contact me] with any comments, questions, or ideas you might have, or check and see if I'll be [http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/mchua/ traveling near you] sometime soon.
-Here are some [[User:Mchua/Templates|templates]] I use occasionally.
+== Interests ==
-I'm working on an essay with Curt on [[User:Mchua/Open source engineering|open source engineering]]. I also occasionally help with software stuff on Appropedia.
+I'm an electrical and software engineer and community facilitator from Boston. As the first in my family to grow up outside the developing world (Philippines, China), I have an active interest in appropriate tech, especially the seldom-explored topic of how electrical and computer engineers, programmers and computer scientists, and other people involved with electrons can get involved. I've been involved administrating (both in the content/community and the technological sense) Mediawiki-based projects for several years and am keenly interested in decentralized collaboration, locally run hackathons and sprints, and university outreach and participation. I believe that integrating appropriate technology and open source into the undergraduate engineering curriculum will make all three communities of practice stronger.
+== Current goals and projects ==
+* Get Appropedia to choose and pursue [[Appropedia:Measurable outcomes|measurable outcomes]] for the 2009 calendar year. Once those are chosen, I'll be adding more projects to this list.