User:Peter Ellis

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NOTICE - Will "Dave" who left a message here about STADAN (probably 26/27 February 2007) please leave a further message at the bottom of my User_talk:Peter_Ellis.

User:Peter Ellis & Andrew Alder meet in Canberra, Sat. 9 April 2005.

In case anyone wishes to see some credentials... Master of Management Studies in Project Management, University of New South Wales, 10 December 2003

First impressions can be so deflating, and then I go and put a photo of myself here just before I self-nominated (a fizzer) to be an Wikipedia:Administrators.

What foolishness! I should have cranked up the Geek factor weeks before that. GEEK CODE

BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK
Version: 3.12
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END GEEK CODE BLOCK

[edit] Interests

In my professional life I would be described as a "project manager", and my recent academic accomplishments bear this out as does my membership of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM). However, people seeing me in my work clothes would think otherwise... and you are left to draw your own conclusions the material that's here.

I am interested in places I live and have lived, and things I know about. I admit it: I'm the 'marginal' person, interested in some VERY odd things:

I know Linux and I run three seperate boxen - SuSE x 2, Fedora Core 3 (for the not-Linux crowd, 'boxen' is geek plural of 'box');
- I have met Andrew Tridgell on various occasions, because:
  - I interviewed him for my community radio network, and
  - I am a subscribed list-watching member of the local Linux User Group;
  - I am a paid-up member of my local "PC Users Group";
I regularly moderate at Slashdot [1] and read Groklaw [2] daily;
My BOINC SETI@Home total credits topped 100,000 on 28 November 2006.
I am webmaster for three organisations, in which I hand-code:
- a PHP-based site, and
- two flat-file based sites;
I have several blogs, one that I keep fairly active;

... and you're welcome to ask me for the URLs (if you know Wiki well enough);

POTY 2006

This is a Time magazine
Person of the Year 2006

en	This user is a native speaker of English.

AU	This user uses Australian English.

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

ADFA

This user is a student or graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW).

UNSW

This user is a student or graduate of the University of New South Wales.

This user is crunching numbers using BOINC.

html-3

This user is an advanced HTML user.

php-1

This user is a beginning PHP programmer.

vln-3

This user is an advanced violinist.

voc-3

This user is an advanced singer.

mnd-2

This user is an intermediate mandolinist.

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows.

This user contributes using Linux.

This user enjoys electronics or is an electronics hobbyist.

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This user is a member of WikiProject Canberra.

This user is a Christian.

This user is a Freemason.

This user has an amateur radio license.

This user is a fan of
The West Wing.

IANAL

I am a peri-legal at
Crane, Poole & Schmidt.

My Wikistress

I assist with the admin of another site, hand-coding some of the content that goes in via a submission-tool;
I have hand-coded the content for several parts of my work intranet;
I took delivery of one of the first clone TRS-80 units in Australia after sleeping in my car outside the nearest Dick Smith Electronics store;
I have conversed with Australian Living Treasures, Dick Smith, on several occasions (and... have email access to him), and my father flew with him on various occasions;
I have been hand-coding since starting on an IBM Model 1180 with its magnificant magnetic-ring memory!
I own several GPS units, one installed in my car;
I am a welded-on fan of The West Wing and anything Star Trek;
And... Amateur Radio was geek before the word was invented!
and I have previously mentioned: violin that is 'my' instument, but I'll get a note out of almost any string instruments and most others, too; Royal Australian Navy; reptiles because a son keeps several, and I assist; satellites because studying about them keeps my mind active; Christianity because I believe; broadcasting, radio, community radio station Radio 1RPH and the Australian Amateur Radio national news service, because I like the sound of my own mind; Canberra just is!; plus Choir singing of major choral works, Freemasonry because it's 'cool'.
In my spare time, I regularly write for several magazines.

And, you guessed it, "Get a life" is an alien concept.

[edit] Wikipedia:Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test online version

180 Peter Ellis 20:06, 20 January 2006 (UTC) - and probably conservative
126 Peter Ellis 01:28, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) - conservative in retrospect!

[edit] Kate's tool

As at 29 March 2006 (after just over 2 years of editing) my data from Kate's tool is:

Total edits: 2328

Image uploads: 111 (109 cur, 2 old)

Distinct pages edited: 937

Edits/page (avg): 2.48

Edits by namespace: Articles 1518

Deleted edits: 53

First edit: 2004-03-17 03:42:12

[edit] Academic

Master of Management Studies (MMgtStudies) in Project Management - University of New South Wales through the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, the Capital city of Australia Australian Capital Territory

Subjects that I particularly enjoyed included: Human Resource Management, System Dynamic Modelling, Microeconomics for Managers, Facility and Property Management, Communicatuions and Information Systems, Fundamentals of Surveillance Technologies, Legal Process and Procedure, Satellite Communications, Strategic Management, Project Management Body of Knowledge

Diploma of Applied Science (DipApSci) - Royal Australian Navy College, Jervis Bay, New South Wales

And, I have the itch to do a PhD on a field of economic / social / government administration (although I've been advised to write a book on a part of the subject first, in order to cure the itch.)

[edit] Wiki contributions

As of February 2007, my aim will be to raise the grading / status of the pages I have written. Template:Grading_scheme

[edit] Making a goose of myself!

Just after the opening of the 2006 Commonwealth Games I was talking to a family member who their knows ducks and geese and who swore to me that it was a goose rather than a duck that was used in connection with the Michael Leunig storyline. Accordingly, I inserted, "(A live white goose was substituted, presumably because it would be easier to handle and better visible by cameras.)" That person has since seen footage of the duck in question and has recognised the error of the ways. Accordingly, I too must take responsibility and apologise to the Wikipedia community in general and the Games organisers in particular. Peter Ellis 11:24, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "10 random pages" that I'm working with

Note: I do not necessarily touch or 'fix' things that I could!

For the archive, see User:Peter Ellis/10 random pages.

Current...
- Sixteenth (18 November 2006): Thir - disambig; John_Newlove - poet; Fare Thee Well - disambig; Mario Teaches Typing - mmmario; Sadanand Joshi - petropublishing; John Neale Dalton - a cleric; Neural ensemble - all in the mind; Bount - character; Little Whinging sends you 'potty'; Illinois' 6th congressional district - politics.

[edit] Copyrights User:Peter Ellis/Copyrights

I am proud of my substantive contributions to Wikipedia, many listed below, and I appreciate other people's work.

I am referring to Wikipedia from several web sites that I maintain, because I realise the usefulness of the articles and the intellectual rigor achieved by collective work (whatever the doubters and gain-sayers dredge up from time to time.)

I agree to multi-license:

all my written contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

	Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0 and 2.0
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under the GFDL and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 and version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.

Licensing rights granted to Wikimedia Foundation

I grant non-exclusive permission for the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to relicense my text and media contributions, including any images, audio clips, or video clips, under any copyleft license that it chooses, provided it maintains the free and open spirit of the GFDL. This permission acknowledges that future licensing needs of the Wikimedia projects may need adapting in unforeseen fashions to facilitate other uses, formats, and locations. It is given for as long as this banner remains.

all my image contributions, as described below:

I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
Subject to disclaimers.

This image is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution ShareAlike License v. 2.5:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
Attribution: Peter Ellis

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User:Peter Ellis

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[edit] Interests

[edit] Wikipedia:Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test online version

[edit] Kate's tool

[edit] Academic

[edit] Wiki contributions

[edit] Pages I have written (established) include...

[edit] Written for... (inc. edited...)

[edit] Useful text

[edit] Making a goose of myself!

[edit] "10 random pages" that I'm working with

[edit] Copyrights User:Peter Ellis/Copyrights

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