Kasper Souren, born November 28th, 1976, Netherlands.
Relevant professional experience
| 2009-present |
Part time IT expert for intal in Brussels, working on CiviCRM, Drupal, Ubuntu, LTSP. |
| 2008-present |
Self-employed social web consultant, MediaWiki, SEO, Drupal (Eiken en teak meubelen, Teak meubelen, Teak tafels, websites for NGOs, including B'Tselem, communities, artists and an art festival) |
| 2008 |
Developer at Hyves, in Amsterdam, PHP and MySQL on a large serverpark. |
| 2007 |
System Analyst, Python Developer and Wiki Guru for the TrustLet project at Fundazione Bruno Kessler, in Trento, Italy. Design and implementation of a framework for analysis of trust networks. |
| 2006 |
Core Developer (PHP, MySQL), Tech Team Coordinator, Knowledge Management for CouchSurfing (post-crash), in Montreal, California and New Zealand. |
| 2006 |
Software Developer and System Integration (PHP, MySQL, ActionApps, Windows 2000) for CEPES in Lima, Peru, for the Ministry of Agriculture, to publish information about their grants. |
| 2005 |
Design, Development and Training related to GNU/Linux and free software for community radio stations for Geekcorps Mali. |
| 2002-2004 |
Research and Development (AI, Python) to find structure in musical pieces, IRCAM, Paris, France. |
| 2001 |
Development of GNU Pascal libraries for non-pop composer Clarence Barlow, Den Haag, Netherlands. May till August 2002 |
| 2000-2001 |
Software Developer (Visual Basic, JavaScript, ASP, IIS, MSSQL, PHP, MySQL) creation and maintenance of several websites related to accessibility and medical information for PPC in Nijmegen, Netherlands. |
| 1999 |
Software Developer (PHP, MySQL) for Free Online in Nijmegen. |
Education
- 2001-2002 Course of Sonology, electronic music at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague.
- 1995-2000 Master of Science in Mathematics, University Nijmegen
- graduated in discrete mathematics with a thesis on string searching and regularity detection, besides mathematical subjects also courses in music psychology, cognitive science, ergonomics, object-oriented programming in C++, Scheme programming, modern physics, mechanics and philosophy
- 1989-1995 Secondary education, VWO St. Janscollege Hoensbroek
Python, PHP, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, C, C++, Unix shell, Perl, Scheme, SuperCollider.
A more extensive list of projects is available at
http://guaka.org/code
Official involvement
- Member of Board of Directors of Kunnafoni, a French not-for-profit organization to bring information to local communities in West Africa.
- co-founded Hitchwiki
- co-founded Wikipedias in Limburgish, Bambara and Peul
- installing and adapting the MediaWiki platform and plugins
- created and supported wiki communities
See also
http://guaka.org/wikis
- mother tongue
- Dutch, Limburgish
- expert
- English, French, German
- intermediate
- Italian, Spanish
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Research interests
social networks, trust, gift economy, human-computer interaction, music, AI, language
