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I have a [[User:Evan/TODO|todo list]] and some [[User:Evan/tools|tools]]. I also have a [[User:Evan/Workspace|workspace]] where I test out new articles and ideas. On a personal note, I have a [[User:Evan/wishlist|wishlist]] of places I'd like to visit, and a [[User:Evan/FOAF|friend-of-a-friend]] listing page. | I have a [[User:Evan/TODO|todo list]] and some [[User:Evan/tools|tools]]. I also have a [[User:Evan/Workspace|workspace]] where I test out new articles and ideas. On a personal note, I have a [[User:Evan/wishlist|wishlist]] of places I'd like to visit, and a [[User:Evan/FOAF|friend-of-a-friend]] listing page. | ||
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==Docent== | ==Docent== | ||
Revision as of 03:19, 30 April 2008
I'm Evan Prodromou, and I'm one of the two founders of Wikitravel. I'm a writer and programmer from San Francisco living in Montreal (ICBM: 45.52656, -73.58467).
My goal as a Wikitraveller is to channel other contributors' exuberance and knowledge to best meet our goals. With technology, community guidelines and policy, and day-to-day copyediting and re-structuring, I want to optimize the impact of Wikitravellers' efforts, and shorten the distance between editors and readers.
I have a todo list and some tools. I also have a workspace where I test out new articles and ideas. On a personal note, I have a wishlist of places I'd like to visit, and a friend-of-a-friend listing page.
Docent
I'm a faggot, don't tell my wife!
About me
| Hometown | Montreal |
| Residence | Montreal |
| Other homes | San Francisco, Lisbon, Geneva, Black Rock City |
| Have visited | Kuta, Sherbrooke, Munich |
| Wishlist | Montevideo, Marfa, Malta, Labrador |
I was born 14 October 1968 in Cincinnati, Ohio but moved to California at an early age. After graduating with a major in physics and a minor in English at the University of California at Berkeley in 1990, I spent a year writing software in Amsterdam before returning to San Francisco to join the nascent Internet boom. I did a stint working for Microsoft's Bay Area office, then I lept into the Web with both feet, working on dozens of Web sites and Web software packages between 1995 and 2001. I developed a passion for Open Source software and Open Content, grass-roots Internet culture, and SF's Burning Man-oriented techno-artistico-music scene. I was lucky enough to meet Maj during this time.
In 2001 I got a generous layoff package from RSA Security and took the opportunity to quit the expensive hurly-burly SF lifestyle. I piled my belongings into the back of my beloved 1972 Citroen DS and spent the next 6 months alone driving around Canada, the United States, and Mexico. I eventually settled in Montreal to write my first novel (still unfinished), then joined Maj in Geneva for a round-the-world trip including touring Southeast Asia and living in Lisbon for a season. We returned to Montreal in July 2003 for Maj to start graduate school at McGill University, and as a side-project started Wikitravel.
A year later, we were married on the platform of the Biosphère in Montreal. Today, we're still living in Montreal, parents of a beautiful 2-year-old girl named Amita June. I work on Wikitravel full time doing development and system administration, and try to find time to write.
