User:JimTittsler

I was the Lead Tech at the OER Foundation, helping to develop and maintain WikiEducator and the technologies behind the OERu. I was also a developer of the eXe eLearning XHTML Editor project and promoted the adoption of WikiEducator by teachers in New Zealand as a way to both (1) produce open educational resources that can be freely used across NZ schools and (2) strengthen networks of peers through collaboration in that development.

I have demonstrated a variety of ways to deploy WikiEducator content. I've prototyped a web service that allows exporting a collection of pages as an IMS Common Cartridge or IMS Content Package.

About Me
I am one of the founders of the Tokyo Linux Users Group and a long time Python programmer (and one of the administrators of the Starship Python). In real life I am an active radio amateur (ham radio operator) (7J1AJH, ZL2IA, AI8A). I also enjoy hiking and swimming.

I've lived in several places in the United States. I grew up in Columbus, Ohio and went to university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I worked in southwestern Michigan (St. Joseph), Los Angeles (Chatsworth), and Silicon Valley. Moving to Tokyo, Japan in 1990 got me closer to many of the manufacturers that I was working with and I enjoyed living there for about 16 years. In late 2006, I moved to Gisborne, New Zealand (map) for a couple of years to participate in the eXe project, and then the Open Education Resource movement and WikiEducator. In 2010 I had the chance to live in Te Anau (map), in the remote Fiordland corner of New Zealand. At the end of 2013 I returned to Tokyo.