[Theforum] Roll Call

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Tue Oct 30 17:10:59 CST 2001


A. Erickson wrote on 30/10/01 3:37 am

>Maybe we should do a quick roll call -- if no one objects. There's
>roughly 42 people on this list (Is that number a portent?) It seems like
>everybody is "in" for the moment. So...
>
>Who are you?

Martin, the Scottish one. Age 33 just gone.
http://www.easyweb.co.uk/pics/wedding/wed_DSC00002.jpg
http://www.easyweb.co.uk/pics/dropbox/DSC00717.jpg
(caution for the archives - that's an ephemeral pic.
It'll probably get a permanent home at some point,
just not yet)

Husband to Lucy:
http://www.easyweb.co.uk/pics/wedding/wed_DSC00023.jpg

and father to Morgan (just gone 8 weeks)
http://www.easyweb.co.uk/pics/morgan/

>What do you do?

Work as a management consultant for
http://www.pwcglobal.com/
basically helping large companies produce sites better
than this:
http://www.guinness.com/regions/gb/default.asp

A lot of that is helping them through the things they
need to do to get a site which is effective (including usable,
accessible, and manageable), which involves a bunch of
project management and liaison work between the
folks who want the site and the folks who are delivering it.

Depending on the client, I do all or fewer of:
* IA
* Usability
* Accessibility
* Standards-compliance
* Project management
* Content management
* eMarketing (how do you use your site to build relationships
   with customers?)

Currently working for a global alcoholic drinks company,
on consumer-facing sites for two of their portfolio of brands.
Anyone who's at the London beervolt will get bought at least
one of their products.

In the past, I've worked in voluntary organisations for about
9 years, 3 of them full time and paid (which sucked - long
story) as a fundraiser. I've written and rewritten constitutions
long after it stopped being fun. I've started voluntary orgs,
and been there when they matured, and when they died.

I've also been a semi-professional folk singer, so the brands
I'm working on rn are *very* close to my heart.

>What do you want to do?

Solve the hardest problems for and with the best
people.

Wouldn't mind a year or some out working here:
http://www.sea-explorer.net/

Would like a lot to work in another country for a couple
or so years in my current job. Italy would be nice, but
so would Oregon, or Canada.

I also want to see evolt develop from a hobby of a few people
into something much more professional, by which I don't
mean boring, unnecessarily rigid. I mean doing stuff because
we've collectively decided that it would be right thing to do
to build our community, and preventing arguments by being
able to show "Hey, we all decided that, and we built what
we decided". The criterion can be "For a laugh", as long as
we've decided that that's the criterion.

I also want evolt to be a place which builds mutual
trust and respect, accepting the best of what members
want and are able to offer, and giving back recognition
for that contribution and opportunities for personal
development and any other valid personal goals we
have in doing this stuff.

>What has been your experience with evolt so far?

Left MJ very early. Wrote lots of crap articles, and
a few not-bad ones, and got invited into Admin on the
strength of it.

Have travelled across the Atlantic to two bigish
evolt gatherings:
http://www.easyweb.co.uk/pics/dc/optimised/
http://www.easyweb.co.uk/pics/evoltcon2/
and think it's about time we had one in Europe
(Amsterdam was mentioned...)

Following the BoD discussion earlier in the year,
somehow I got elected President.

>Do you have a cat?

Kiedes aka 'stop that':
http://www.easyweb.co.uk/pics/cats/kiedes.jpg
(caption 'fuck off out of my sunlight, ya bastard')
http://www.easyweb.co.uk/pics/cats/DSC00183.jpg
(caption 'just fuck off')

Polly aka 'where the hell are you?'
http://www.easyweb.co.uk/pics/cats/polly.jpg
(caption "I'm about to run away... I am")

>Do you kick kittens?

No, I know what cats can do for revenge. Revenge
is a cat specialist skill...

>Got a URL?

http://www.easyweb.co.uk/

>If you limited yourself to one food for the rest of your life what would
>it be?

Coffee, probably. But real coffee, with the beans ground no more
than 5 minutes beforehand. And the beans have to be vacuum packed
and/or frozen. And with a tiny drop of hot (but not boiling) milk -
if you noticeably change the volume, you've added too much.

Mysore for normal preference, Kenyan in the morning and
Columbian at night.

>Boxers or Thongs?

Trust me on this, you don't want me in thongs.

>If you got into a fight with Taylor, would you win?
Yes, by not fighting. The first one to strike a blow has already
lost the argument.

Cheers
Martin

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email: martin at easyweb.co.uk             PGP ID: 0xA835CCCB
       martin at members.evolt.org      snailmail: 30 Shandon Place
  tel: +44 (0)774 063 9985                      Edinburgh,
  url: http://www.easyweb.co.uk                 Scotland





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