General
| Name | wpwalker |
| About Me | ๑ Making web since the web was born. ๑ “We all talk about ‘peace, peace’, but peace doesn’t fall from the sky. We have to do something to create it. Human beings have to solve their problems themselves. And the right way to create peace is to engage in dialogue.” ๑ Making web as a way to help people do that. Have made or advised on a goodly number of websites in the Tibetan community in India, and still do this, for the sole purpose of learning and sharing with the Tibetan IT community. [2001 to present] Maintainer of TibetWrites.in [2019 to present] [updated July 2023] |
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| Current Location | Island in the Sea, World, Universe, Eye of God |
| WordPress Origin Story | WordPress for Tibet: I was a forestry tech turned “document tech” turned web dev tech when i came to McLeod Ganj India, home of Tibet-in-exile and the Dalai Lama, for a visit. There i learned much more about the Tibetan situation and about Buddhism, and believing that the Web is the most powerful tool for humans since the printing press, believing in communication and not violence to solve problems, believing in the Web as the stupendous means of communication between humans today … whew … pant pant … ok … felt that the most useful thing i could do with my life was be a guide for learning how to make websites, . With the focus on sharing good practices, how to find out things, how to be flexible, rather than any particular technology. At that time CSS was just taking off. Interactive websites were very special. As years went by the things i “taught”* progressed to server configuration, advanced CSS, PHP programming, and finally as they matured, CMSs. I experimented with a few, and WordPress kept drawing me back for its simplicity, extensibility, commitment to good standards and ethics. As WordPress has grown, i have grown with it. And many Tibetan techies seem to have found it useful as well — WordPress is now the core of many Tibetan websites, with many capabilities and languages thanks to awesome documentation, tutorials, and range of plugins. I continued to build websites in WordPress so that i could learn, so that i could continue to share. Thank you WordPress! Everything passes, everything changes. In 2018 i’m not doing the same things that i was doing back in 1996 nor in 2010, although my core Web principles and my service have not changed. WordPress in 2018 is going in a different direction and is no more the tech and the group that drew me in in 2010. So i am moving on to ClassicPress, with much gratefulness to WordPress for getting us here! * “taught”, because i’m not really a teacher, or anyway a very bad one. I do like to talk about tech, so that’s what i do. |
Extras
| Company | Tibet-in-exile, Tibetan and Thai dhamma |
| Job Title | Web builder to the stars |
| Interests | Internet web, Web of information, Dhamma web, Web of life, Web of people, Web of languages, Web of interconnections of minds, Web of interconnections in my mind, … “WordPress Usage” choices: ‘Personal’ and ‘Business’. Is that all there is to life? There’s nothing there for me to tick! 🙂 |
