Tim McNamara

About: I'm a student at Victoria University of Wellington. I'm studying public policy, but I have a deep interest in technology. I live in New Zealand, but have spent a year or so in Germany.
Quick facts: Interests include humanitarianism, technology policy, innovation policy and the intersection between technology and social development.; Vegetarian; Python & JavaScript are where I focus my coding effort.
Where to find me:: Freebase.com; Twitter; Facebook; LinkedIn

Updated: 25 Sept 2010

This list will be incrementally be completed as I get time.

Helping out at Freebase.com.
Assisting with humanitarian projects, including to the Humanitarian OSM Team and CrisisCommons.
Community support with the Natural Language Processing Toolkit.
Contributing with the odd piece of code for the Sahana Eden project.
I have been attempting to build a network of emergency managers and technical experts to help build the Sahana Disaster Management System. Unfortunately, this project has been mostly silent for several months.
Testing for the One Laptop per Child intiative.
Developing automatic testing tools for Sugar.
Helping teachers understand how to use the Sugar Learning Platform and its Activities in the classroom.
Contributing to Google Refine.