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[edit] Waitak - 维德 - Duy Đức
Question of the hour: What does a sustainable culture look like in detail?
I've spent time as a professor, CTO and head of an NGO. I've scaled way back on my WP activities, but still manage to spend some time close to daily. Things I do as a Wikicitizen include:
- I keep an eye on pages on my watchlist (see here for a list). Particular areas of interest include:
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(More on my contributions below.) Things that interest me include:
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[edit] Fighting poverty
- Local economies, and the role of barter in developing them. Current question: How would a sabbath economy work in practice?
- Eliminating poverty, particularly in ways involving information technology and other applications of appropriate technology. I see projects like XO-1, Simputer and Jhai as good ideas, although none of them quite gets there. Among other things we're working on an 8Mb Linux distribution. uClinux, uClibc, Lua and Buildroot are all components we're looking at. There are lots of tiny little cool tools that help, like Zile for example.
- I'm interested in what might be called appropriate engineering - community scale manufacturing that whose products and methods are appropriate for developing nations with very little infrastructure or capital investment. Some great examples of appropriate engineering (many agricultural):
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- Kevin Kelly's Street Use blog is great food for thought.
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- I can be often be found in Hong Kong's wilder places (no, not those... the other sort of wild...)
- I play several musical instruments, some more interesting than others.
- I love jazz, contemporary Christian and many other kinds of music, and am grateful that Internet radio makes up for the lack of jazz stations in Hong Kong (Radioio Jazz is my station of choice)
- I've eaten gumbo in New Orleans, mussels in Bruges, dim sum in Hong Kong, sashimi in Tokyo, clam chowder in Boston and San Francisco, salmon in Alaska, uhu in Kona and Wiener schnitzel in Vienna. I've been to Manila and Baguio, and enjoyed the bagoong, but I drew the line at balut. Eating moringa leaves was a high point.
- I'm fond of Belgian beer, especially Grimbergen, Bush (which is not made by these guys), Delirium Tremens and Kwak.
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[edit] Contributions
[edit] Articles I've started
I tend to contribute most to Wikipedia by writing content. Some of the articles that I've started include:
plus a lot of redirects. Here is a list of (non-redirect) articles that I've started.
[edit] Edit stats
[edit] Other contributions
- You can check on how many edits I've done here (or for a more complete list, here). (3,271 as of March 3, 2007) I averaged 265 edits a month over the last 11 months.
- Here is a list of the 120 content (non-talk, non-user) pages that I've edited more than twice as of March 3, 2007.
[edit] Other communities
[edit] Tests (some sillier than others)
- ^ Not that I can read either one of them... I just think they're pretty.
