User:JohnPaschoud

Using my realworld name, because I've believed for a long time that online will increasingly expect people to be honest about their identities - even while many are not.

Now mostly retired from productive and academic computing, having dabbled quite deeply in a few fields, most recently Identity & Access Management (including the adoption of Shibboleth as part of a global standard for academic IdAM); in library, cataloguing and bibliographic systems (as a research projects manager and infosystems engineer at the London School of Economics & Political Science); and before that (and since, a lot, in a voluntary role) in large-scale demographic and political data; and before that in Geographic Information Systems and systems dealing with people and property data for governmental administrative applications such as town planning; and before that as an operator (and occasional systems programmer) and manager of academic computing services on larger computers stretching back into history via first generation (S100, 6502, C/PM, Apple, BBC etc) desktop computers, DECsystem10s, various (DEC) PDPs, English Electric / RCA System 4s, LEO 326s.

A Labour councillor in Lewisham, first elected in 1994. I have held special responsibility in Lewisham at various times for Planning, Road Safety, scrutiny of Education and Children's services, and looked-after children.

All sorts of voluntary roles in the Labour Party, mostly in Lewisham West & Penge, where I served as Election Agent for Jim Dowd (former MP), Ellie Reeves MP, Mayor Damien Egan, and quite a lot of candidates for council seats (including myself). So far, I have only lost one election for which I was responsible (one council seat in the London Borough of Bromley, in 2014).

A member of the LEO Computers Society, the British Computer Society, and the (BCS) Computer Conservation Society.

A fairly active STEM Ambassador, and a leader and facilitator of several Code Clubs (I might still be in some of their volunteer training videos), which are supported by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

A member of the Ex-Military Land Rover Association.

I sometimes have enough spare time to make interesting or useful things out of wood. But I'm not very good at that yet.

Not expecting, yet, to devote a great amount of time or energy to Wikipedia editing, as I have too many more energetic things to use it all up. But I may want to sit down more one day, whilst I still have some intellectual marbles left.

Next, I will find out how to get some of those Wp badges...