You may be wondering who I am. Well I'm not going to tell you my biography in
case you try and steal my identity 
Instead...
I'm particularly interested in participatory politics/sociology in technology, in the hacker ethic and Aristotelean/Marxist ethics. As such, I try to keep actively involved in politics, working in pressure groups on the environment, development and digital rights. I'm leading the UK's first local Creative Commons project Remix Reading.
I also like to go for long walks, do a spot of gardening, read a good Milan Kundera novel, sit back and listen to some music, zone out in front of Neighbours or Star Trek, and occasionally just do nothing in particular. If I ever, by some strange bit of luck, get money I really like to travel. Though as this map shows, that doesn't happen too often:
What I do
Most of my time is divided between being a full time student (I'm on a Philosophy MA) and activism. I'm also a freelance journalist, paying the rent with articles that can be found in the writing section of this web site. Here's an incomplete, relatively short list of things I'm doing, and things I've done:
I lead Remix Reading, the UK's first major localised free culture / Creative Commons project.
I do lots of digital rights of activism. At the moment I'm part of an effort to set-up the Open Knowledge Foundation as a well-integrated digital rights activism network. Remix Reading will be part of a UK-wide free culture campaign. I'm involved with the Information Accessibility Initiative, part of the OKFN. I've also done a lot of lobbying on software patents with the FFII, and bits and bobs with the Association for Free Software and the now defunct Campaign for Digital Rights.
I do media and promotion work for the The KDE Project. I wrote the guide to working with the media for the Quality Team Project, and gave a presentation on the project at the KDE conference, aKademy, in August 2004. I also occasionally do this and that for the usability and promotion teams, and have done a small amount of artwork for KDE users.
I used to be the coordinator of the Reading University Campaigns Forum, a group that organises and encourages political activism at Reading Uni (UK). I was one of the main people behind my University's switch to green electricity. I'm also a Greenpeace activist.
I do a little web work for friends and family. I administer the Acre Woods Collective, which hosts this web site. I set-up my father's web site, Professor Stephany Griffith Jones' web site (an economics professor and the mother of a friend), and I've done a little work on the web site of Country Cottage Plus. I've also done web work and consultancy for the Sustainable Development Commission.
Things I no longer do
Others things that I'm not really working on any more (mostly because I finished them):
Science & Engineering Ambassadors was a job I did for SETPOINT
Hertfordshire; it's a portal for schools and businesses to coordinate
cooperation, to make managing visits, long-term help etc easier. It uses Perl
and MySQL and was a pretty big project.
NewToLinux.org is an English & French
web site for GNU/Linux newbies.
QuickRip is a DVD ripping application written
in Python. I've handed over ownership to Jesir Vargas, after I found I simply
didn't have the combination of time and skills to get the most out of the
project.
Battle for Wesnoth - I've
contributed some scenario balancing and a couple of multiplayer maps
TomPong - a simple Pong game
written in Python and Pygame
GPlaylist - a M3U/HTML
playlist generator
GNE - GNE's Not an Encyclopedia (dead)
Hacktivism.ca
(dead)
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