User:Coplan

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Daniel Travis "Coplan" North is a resident of the greater Philadelphia area, Pennylvania, USA. In the demoscene, on the internet and on several listserv groups, he is commonly known as Coplan. A self-proclaimed computer geek from the age of 10 and an audiophile for nearly as long, Coplan derived his alias initially for use on local Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's) on two principals: 1) Aaron Copland was a famous composer who has worked with the Philadelphia Orchestra and 2) Coplan (pronounced: ko-plan), when used by itself, was more appealing without the 'd'.

Contents 1 Coplan Today 1.1 Interests & Hobbies 1.2 Current External Projects 1.3 Past (Abandoned) External Projects 2 Wikipedia Categorization 3 Wikipedia User Watch 4 Recommended External Links

[edit] Coplan Today

Currently, Coplan continues to grow in his knowledge and interests in web development. Most of his work these days is done in PHP and MySQL. His interest and participation in the Open Source community continues to expand. But most of the time, he spends time with his family or he focuses (no pun intended) on his photography. He works as a Landscape Architect for a commercial engineering firm in the Philadelphia area. He still follows the PC Demoscene

[edit] Interests & Hobbies

• Computer & Electronic Hardware
• PC Demoscene
• Linux (Preferred distribution: Gentoo Linux)
• Web development with PHP, MySQL and sometimes PERL
• Photography

[edit] Current External Projects

• Antisoc.net - Literature and Movie reviews and discussions
• Coplan@DeviantART - Photography and other art forms by Coplan
• Fulcrum: Demo Collective - My demogroup
• Luminosity - Personal blog

[edit] Past (Abandoned) External Projects

• SceneSpot.org - SceneSpot was a demoscene portal with strong roots in the North American Demoscene. The website was abandoned early in 2006 in favor of my other projects.
• Static Line - Static Line was a demoscene magazine that was created to fill a void after DemoNews and TraxWeekly closed its doors. More information can be found at the Static Line stub.

[edit] Wikipedia Categorization

This user lives in or hails from Philadelphia.	en This user is a native speaker of English.	This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.
g This user contributes using Gentoo Linux.	html-4 This user is an HTML expert.	css-3 This user is an advanced Cascading Style Sheets user.
php-2 This user is an intermediate PHP programmer.	mysql-2 This user is an intermediate MySQL programmer.	This user doesn't know the Battle of Borodino from a tiger's bum.
This user is working on WikiProject Philadelphia.

[edit] Wikipedia User Watch

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• Epolk (Contributions)
• Vossanova (Contributions)
• IanBlade

[edit] Recommended External Links

• DeviantART - an art community
• Gentoo Linux - a popular source based Linux Distribution
• Scene.org - a source for demoscene news, productions and information