User:nealmcb

I'm Neal McBurnett. I've been sharing information and tools world-wide since 1979, initially as a Usenet contributor. I co-founded the world's second web-based community network, [http://bcn.boulder.co.us/ Boulder Community Network] in October, 1993.

I was an early adopter of Wikipedia. I know Ward Cunningham and used the first wiki, his WikiWikiWeb, so it made sense to me. My first edit here (creating the Boulder, Colorado page)[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boulder,_Colorado&oldid=321962] was on 2002-09-28. I'm active with the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group, a Wikimedia affiliate.

I conceived of and developed the open source [https://launchpad.net/electionaudits ElectionAudits] software and used it to audit Boulder's 2008 and 2010 elections, and helped get risk-limiting audits adopted in Colorado and elsewhere, as described at [http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/elections/corla/ The Colorado Risk-Limiting Audit Project (CORLA)]. I've contributed to a variety of other [https://github.com/ron-rivest/ElectionAuditWareRepo ElectionAuditWare] including the two prominent tools [https://github.com/FreeAndFair/ColoradoRLA ColoradoRLA] and [https://github.com/votingworks/arlo Arlo], also both open source.

I love to analyze data, and helped design courses which use Apache Spark on big datasets like [https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html the ones Wikipedia has].

I've been active with Ubuntu since the early days, and was involved with the Server team in its early years: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NealMcBurnett.

I taught Artificial intelligence at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2012 and 2013.

See my [http://neal.mcburnett.org/ home page] and my [http://neal.mcburnett.org/blog blog] for way more than you probably wanted to know about me, my interests, and links to things I think are funny, fun, useful or important.

Supporter of WikiLove and Concordia (even if it is "inactive")

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