User:Eric

Major Overhaul/Addition Time

• ye be warned
• Also mainly as a coherent response to my current mess; sorry if i am venting a bit, i will try to control this (and help me with feedback)
• Also being vunerable now in all this (ie don't kill me)
• Also dev work for a proper linkedin as of now-ish'
• VERY informal (be SCARED, no ties here, only comfy working clothes and a blanket/sweatshirt)

Basics

TLDR

• The literal personified right wing strawman (or GenDer NeutRal StRaw PeRsOn/Golem or humanoid bird spooker) SMFH
• Perfect Storm (ie metaphor or katrina, depends on time and use case of me) of:
  • Mostly Type 1 ADHD
  • Perfectionistic OCD
  • ASD (more so aspie side, but w h o k n o w s (mental health ain't a precise field yet (can't wait for dna test use + eeg etc to kick off)
• Thus GREAT at obsessive edit/optimization and high stim work (like netwroking ALL of the near-infinite internet (ie it is fun, not overwhelming) ) )
  • Side note Love Your Work (hippie shit i know)
• In-Recovery from personal hell
  • So need feedback on toxicity/nonsensability/rants etc to improve
• Currently in shelter in place, in Parents home (ie millenial slob/ Taker according to fox news and the USA GOP etc ie i WOULD be on welfare and government funded SOCIALIST mental healthcare if not winning the Birth Lottery to middle class parents
  • I AM the "other" group / "them" they fear
  • Ie the RADICAL SICK LIBERAL MONSTER
• I Overorganize , good for wiki, bad for talking irl
• I also use a PILE of abbreviations
• Overexplaining (or just shit self esteem) so i will end this section here
• I also have lots of time to burn on boring repetative tasks and networking/pr

Rant Form

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. With florida being under "Shelter in Place" (or something like that, kinda rushing quarentine re-opening IMO) i have plenty of time to burn

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, and social media networking / support (on the OSE discord, and a pile of stuff on the Precious Plastic Discord)

Common Profile Picture

• As of 2020-ish
  • EricsZooTreePhoto1 a photo of a tree at jacksonville fl's zoo for the light show (holiday lights all over during winter break, lots of a e s t h e t i c , took like 250 or so photos (pre-edit/burst filtering)
  • To be snobby: Shot on Auto Mode, on an Iphone 7 (ios i know, TRAITOR, still waiting to buy a pixel), at night, with some lower artificial light, no glass other than a "lifeproof brand case (ie may be some dust/ plastic/glass scratches/distiortion hiding in there
  • Not SHOT in raw, but is uneditied in this form
  • Flexing photo "skill" and a perty photo imo
  • Also make picking me out easier on discord etc
  • May use it for a potential yt channel

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 (ie habits/how to understand my conlang of sorts)

• 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 with these, i don't quite have the knack 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?) )

Skillset/Usual Work

As of ~2020

• Wiki Maitnence / Optimization / Organization
• Networking/PR/QA
• Potential IRL makerspace / os work at local:
  • Elementary, Middle, High Schools, and community colledges + UNF / UF (ESPECIALLY if helped by "bigger fish" to be noticed
• Can do photography, SOME basic videoagraphy (need to learn artsy flicks + get a more "real" camera for hands on experience (ie i have a phone and a 2000's mirrorless, not a red 8k...)
  • Can also edit both decently (crop, arrange, color grade (decently), volume balancing, NLVE stuff using Blender, also gimp is no photoshop unlike blender...yet) )
  • I have an old photoshop certification from HS, but they are like the anti-os boogyman imo lol
• May get into local journalism
• HAS DONE anti-soapbox activism at UNF against a local (borderline? ie VERY close but not death cult ie wbc type stuff) cult to make walkways safe, and comfortable for all people
  • Ie:
    • Jewish Peopl
    • Islam People
    • Hindu / non abrahamic ppl
    • Queer (ie less sexology lang LGBT+) people
    • Disabled People
    • Group x that can be yelled slurs at, yet is "free speach" protected
  • Was called BAQW or Basic Aliance for Quiet Walkways (ie no sign wavin, slur yellin, nonsense spewin preachers ruining walk to class/causing long detours to avoid them/not ruining the park (ie the "green" ) ), and traffic due to media buzz
  • Esentially doing what police/uni officials SHOULD have done, but were too beurocratically red taped back and/or weak and/or supportive of their views to do
  • Made email+groupme, organized people (mainly lgbt+ people to piss em off by having a "queer picnic" on the green each day they came (ie MUCH BIGGER counterprotests) ), did satire (got a bigger sign and parodied him to show how bs his ideas are (for ex "as GOD says, and i quote, "HATE THY NEIGHBOR" , and be "an asshole yelling slurs at innocent minorities on the green" soapbox 1:15" etc in dramatic shakespeare esque drama (+ talking about how 25/32 sings cost ~40 USD and to spend this on some crazy sing rather than food for the poor etc) )
  • Did general rukus causin, was a good time, and turned pain and hate into a party, picnic, roast, and unf inside joke
  • Sucess or future political career killer (due to videos of my goofyness) WHO KNOWS, i just had fun and helped friends i guess

Contact Info

• Gmail: ericlotze@gmail.com

Internal Links

• Eric Lotze Log
• Eric's Post Meeting Comments

External Links

• My Open Circuit Institute Account Page