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)
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. 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)
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 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?) )
Contact Info
- Gmail: ericlotze@gmail.com