User:Btball
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I am Brian Ball, retired from the computer business and living in France (near Paris) with my wife and two sons.
Sandbox[edit]One of my interests is bringing information about the world to people, especially middle school and high school students, through experiential learning. A friend of mine and I created the WorldDay event which we've held four times so far. You can learn more about that at the Sandbox website. Buckminster Fuller and Gregory Bateson[edit]I've been influenced by the thinking of Buckminster Fuller and Gregory Bateson. One of Bucky's many inventions, besides the geodesic dome was the Dymaxion map. For the WorldDay event we created what we believe to be the World's largest, most accurate, flat map of the World (it is 10 meters by 20 meters). You can see pictures of it at the Sandbox picture gallery. My background[edit]In 2002 I retired from the computer business after working almost thirty years. I first started programming on an IBM 360/40 when I was in high school. I've programmed in many languages, too many to bore you with the complete list, but ranging from IBM assembly language through FORTAN and PL/1 to current languages (including scripting languages) like PERL and PHP. Now, I do a small amount of consulting for software startups but mostly spend my time doing volunteer work. I am on the boards of two schools, one of which I co-founded, The French Immersion School of Washington. Other interests[edit]
Wikipedia participation[edit]Mostly, I've been participating in new page and recent page patrol and doing minor cleanup using AWB. I've improved a few articles by translating information from the French version of the article to English and will do more translation as time permits. You can see my barnstar at my barn. |
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