User:Donovan
Introduction
My name is Donovan Jones. I am a software developer from New Zealand. I am a competent wiki editor and plan to assist the OSE in this capacity. I do not plan to collaborate or assist in other ways in the medium term. Essentially I am a WikiGnome, as such it is probably safe to ignore me.
Current objectives
- Improve metric support on the wiki.
- Work on Work_Log_Guidelines particularily Date_Format_Convention.
- Work on and improve categories.
- Wikifying pages: work on wiki linking.
Thoughts
As an outsider there are a few things that i would like to help improve.
Support for the Metric System
Three countries use non-metric measurement systems: Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States. I believe for OSE to a have a global impact it needs better support for the metric system. Many collaborators will only be able to source metric parts. I want to help provide better metric support at leas on the wiki.
Wiki standards
Standards like the Date_Format_Convention are important in a wiki, they create consistency, help define a framework withing which people can become more productive and in general help to make the wiki more functional. As such I will be editing peoples Logs, please let me know if you would prefer I left them alone.
Other Skills
I do have some other skills that may be useful to the OSE. I am an experienced data munger, if you need scripts written to process and convert data feel free to drop me a line. Things like
- Writing cron jobs
- Talking to databases (postgres/mysql/sqlite)
- Pulling in xml,yaml,json,html,csv,wiki markup
- Spitting out xml,yaml,json,html,csv,wiki markup
- Talking to REST web services.
My language of choice is perl. My colaboration method of choice is [1].