Skills Exchange

This is a place for you to offer your skills to the community, and express your desire for new skills.

You can offer your skills to train others in, and to use in other's projects.

Undergoing major overhaul and updating.

Geoffrey Topham

Skills offered

Skills desired

All Areas Breaking things Fine Arts 2D artwork support construction (wood, canvas) Painting Drawing Sculpting (wood, ceramic) Photography (black and white film processing) Screen Printing Musical instrument design (drums and didgeridoo) Woodworking (will certify) Table Saw Miter Saw Digital Audio Audio field recording Editing, nondestructive Music arrangement in Reason, Live Music Sequencing and arrangement Drums, percussion Didgeridoo Electronics Soldering Circuit-bending Contact Microphone construction Basic cooking (no baking) Philosophizing Over cold beer Mycoculture Jar and Tub method

Bicycle repair / building Electronics Circuit design and theory Sewing Tailoring dress shirts and denim hand stitching Programming Puredata / MaxMSP Arduino Processing Web application design Or how to set up a better skills exchange forum Social engineering Community building Persuasion Personal engineering Time management Overcoming creative block Health / wellness

Dan Locks

Skills offered	Skills desired
User:bikemandan
Physical Bike fixin' Woodworking (better than some, worse than others) Sharpening things Basic Fiberglass/epoxy work Sailing (and therefore knots) Rock climbing (and therefore different knots) Sewing, as in, I can make a sewing machine do its thing with easy fabrics. Laying Hardwood Floor. Cerebral Python (I defer to John here) Shell (better than I'd like) Various packaging systems (RPM, DEB, Sun-pkg)	Welding cool looking jointery electronics troubleshooting modern basic navigation Perl

John Stoner

Skills offered	Skills desired
User:jstoner
software architecture, design and development Java (blech, but it gets the job done)--Java3D, enterprise Java stuff, Python(wheeeee! <3)--Visual Python, Jython basic soldering writing/documentation	Mastery of functional programming(Haskell, Scala...) git finer points of soldering MIDI 3D modeling(Blender...) Basic sewing Welding zeroconf programming under GPL-compatible APIs

Nathan

Skills offered	Skills desired
User:Nathaner
Adobe Creative Suite (Desktop Publishing, Graphic Design, Video Editing, etc.) LAMP & most other web dev crap. though not professionally like some others Content Management Systems Soldering/basic electronics intermediate 3D modeling (Mostly Cinema 4D, just picking up Blender again) some carpentry, metalworking & the likes	More in-depth Linux - somewhere between make install and building your own kernel Welding Screen Printing Digital Audio Workstation Rube Goldberg Cage Fighting Compiled programming languages

jkantarek (Jeff Kantarek)

Skills offered

Skills desired

Computers and Web development C/C++ (intermediate) Ruby (intermediate) JavaScript&CSS (intermediate) Drupal (intermediate) Linux (intermediate) OS X (intermediate/advanced) PHP (basic) SQL (basic/intermediate) Version control systems (git,svn) (intermediate) Electronics Soldering (intermediate/advanced) PCBs and Schematics (Eagle, PADS) (intermediate/advanced) modifying parts for sewing (basic) circuit theory and design (basic/intermediate) Arduino/Lilypad/AVR micro controller programming (intermediate) Art/Crafts Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign (intermediate) final cut pro (basic) Cooking (intermediate) sewing (basic)

Carpentry 3d printers/laser cutters Metal Work & Wielding Sewing FPGAs 3d molding QT software development

Paul Mantz

Skills offered	Skills desired
Computer Science Algorithms Computer Vision Computer Graphics (OpenGL) Language Design Programming Languages Perl C LISP/Scheme PHP Matlab Programming Utilities Software Design Principles Revision Control Systems (git, svn, cvs) GNU Emacs Crafts Knots Cutting a Bitch	Electronics FPGA Programming Programming Languages Haskell Python Crafts Dying Spinning Fabrics

Tim Saylor

Skills offered	Skills desired
Programming (python, php, sql, dom, javascript) Linux Woodworking Data Mining basics (rusty) Basic Knitting	Forging Moldmaking Advanced carpentry (joints, wood types) metalworking gardening CNC Milling lathe

Joe Fallon

Skills offered	Skills desired
Handy with most of the tools Arduino/avr programming Some basic circuit design Matlab	Bow Hunting Skills

onthelevel (Anne)

Skills offered	Skills desired
User:onthelevel
HTML/XHTML/CSS interaction design, specializing on interaction verbiage usability research, conducting usability studies, iterative design photography: both digital and film, as well as darkroom expertise various Adobe products: Photoshop, Lightroom, Dreamweaver, etc social media/communications/public relations flickr: the power user crash course writing/editing: creative, academic, technical geology/mineralogy/gemology Danish language/culture Old English/Anglo-Saxon language/literature making chain maille, jewelry and otherwise basic papercraft and bookmaking basic presentation skills navigating academia jiu-jitsu (Japanese, not Brazilian--pretty rusty at this point) yoga conference/event planning	more about strobism/lighting (in photography) screen printing electronics various "how to fix/hack things" woodworking/metalworking (and milling and forging) furniture making bike care/repair functional urban/indoor gardening 3D printing/laser cutting sewing welding glassblowing letterpress/block printing Linux Python Cold Fusion Drupal Javascript

Bill Mania (billmania)

Skills offered	Skills desired
User:billmania
Python C basic soldering effective communication in English Esperanto SQL, normalization, OLTP, OLAP, dimensional models sailing Cooking and baking vegetarianism Atmel microcontrollers 1-Wire robotics basic woodworking basic welding automotive mechanics basic carpentry, plumbing, electrical wine vermicomposting Linux SysAdmin, DBA, NetworkAdmin	electronic circuits PCB fabrication robotics microcontroller programming FreeCAD sewing

Spenser Gilliland (spenser)

Skills offered	Skills desired
User:spenser
C/C++, Shell basic soldering basic woodworking basic welding automotive mechanics basic carpentry, plumbing, electrical drinking beer embedded Linux FPGA, VLSI gEDA tools	Ruby, Python, Haskell Analog Electronics 802.15.4 Radios microcontroller programming Homebrew CNC