User:Eric

Basics

I first came across open source ecology by the ted talk and my own research. I always have been interested in Various Mechanisms, DIY/Making, Gardening/Aquaponics, and modern self sufficiency. I kind of watched from a distance for a while getting to know the movement. I thought I might as well join and contribute some.

My main skills are photograhy + videography, photo + video editing, audio + music editing, and graphic design. I also love to tinker, but am probably less strong with my skills there than others (Although i would love to learn). The softwares I am familiar with are: Gimp, Krita, Blender, OpenShot Video Editor, and Audacity, as well as Adobe Creative Cloud and Autodesk Software. I am in the process of learning Freecad, Basic Coding, Open Foam, and Sweet Home 3D as well. I am also a technology enthusiast; I am quite knowledgable in PC Building + Related Tech Standards, Live Audio Mixing, Photography, Videography, Audio Production, as well as VR/MR/AR. Granted I do not have degrees in these things (YET), but I have read up on them, and physically dealt with them quite a bit. For now I won't be a full time developer due to being a student, but I will contribute wherever i can, as well as chime in with any ideas I have.

As of lately my contributions have mainly been generic research/fleshing pages out, cleaning up the wiki (organisation + fixing links etc), and various PR like contacting possible SME's

The Templates I Use

• Granted these are more so guidelines
• Full OSE Product Page Template done originally as one page early on in development, then replaced with a link to the geneology, or is replaced with only a basic description and links etc as versions are made. Possible Improvements:
  • CAM section?
  • Get people who now what they are talking to fill out the industry standards page, rather than a 15 min search by me
  • Perhaps rename it as off the shelf products or something?
  • Also have a DIY/Open Source Distinction?
• Basic Placeholder Page Template
• Construction Set Page Template may update this to a more condensed format, but the spacing can be useful for reading the long lists inherent in this, perhaps "*" with enter lines in between each?
  • Could use some improvement, perhaps do away with "Uses" and "allows for" and add a basic description section
  • Also perhaps add a seperate description/goal/philosophy page, and make the page a more simplistic geneology like page?

Misc other things i tend to do

• Adding a "=User:Name's Rant=" section for personal tangents and first person writing that is still relevant to the original page (ie not the discussion page)
• Use excessivly clunky yet also precise page names and abbreviations (FEEL FREE to help withg these, i don't quite have the nack for this...yet)
• Use wikipedia excessivly
• ARMCHAIR THOUGHT
• Attempt to link all pages together (Ie no pages without categories/internal links to relevant pages and links from those pages to the aformentioned page)
• Make a pile of redirects to prevent the issue of typos/other names leading to beleiving a topic hasn't been covered/loosing pages/duplicating subjects
• Attempt to merge similar pages
• Plotting devious plots for OSE's far future
• using lots of parenthesis (such as this (although somethimes this can get cunfusing and i should use brackets perhaps?) )

Contact Info

• Gmail: ericlotze@gmail.com

Internal Links

• Eric Log
• Eric's Post Meeting Comments

External Links

• My Open Circuit Institute Account Page