Name: Ben Spade
Member since: 2000-04-22 02:39:19
Last Login: N/A

Homepage: http://www.spade.com/

Notes:

I juggle. I used to do Linux consulting for Linuxcare, and I preach Open Source to anyone who will listen. It is all the same thing, really.

I was president of SVLUG (www.svlug.org) for 1998 and 1999, while the average attendance grew from about 35 per meeting to several hundred, although I can't claim credit for that. An active LUG is a good place to observe human interaction, and the abuse and nurturing of volunteers. (They work better with nurturing than abuse - remember that.)

I wrote my first computer program in 1963. My original programming language was Fortran. A good Fortran programmer can write Fortran in any language, I currently write Fortran in sh, perl, php, and others. I have never written a C program from scratch, but then I have read that there has only been one program ever written from scratch, and we all have been modifying and porting it ever since.

My contributions to the Community include:

• a mirror of the Howto documents since 1996 - my ISP provides 20 MB of disk space for the web, what better use than to relieve the load on other documentation sites
• Contributions to the documentation of XBanner, and a mirror of its web site
• Minor contributions to the 'phorum' software package
• Evangalism at every opportunity

spade certified others as follows:

• spade certified spade as Journeyer
• spade certified elise as Journeyer
• spade certified kijiki as Journeyer
• spade certified KirkWylie as Journeyer

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• spade certified spade as Journeyer
• elise certified spade as Journeyer
• davidm certified spade as Journeyer
• kijiki certified spade as Journeyer
• KirkWylie certified spade as Journeyer

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