Edward Cherlin

Founder and CEO at Earth Treasury

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Editor at FLOSS Manuals
  • Bid Chairbeing at PyCon
  • Founder at Earth Treasury

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Past
  • Installfest Cordinator at Silicon Valley Linux Users Group
  • Senior Technical Writer at Maskless Lithography, Inc.
  • Senior Technical Writer at Maskless Lithography

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Education
  • Presidio School of Management
  • Promatch
  • University of Durham
  • Yale University

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Edward Cherlin’s Summary

End poverty at a profit

Plan: Start a new non-profit, Earth Treasury, following on One Laptop Per Child (OLPC; http://laptop.org) to link schools around the world for various purposes, including teaching the children how to go into business together. I have enrolled in the Sustainable MBA program of Presidio School of Management, affiliated with Alliant International University, in order to learn some of what is needed to carry out this plan, including whom else to recruit.

Edward Cherlin’s Specialties:

Generalist and Activist

Peace Corps, South Korea
Soto Zen Buddhist training
Programmer in APL, LISP, Forth, Basic, C/C++, Java, and more
Market Analyst in the full range of High Tech
Managing Editor, APL News, Springer-Verlag NY
Founder and Co-Chairman, I-APL, Ltd. (free math software in several languages)
Co-Founder and President, Coalition Against UCE
Founding Member, Open Voting Consortium
Volunteer, One Laptop Per Child

Edward Cherlin’s Experience

  • Editor

    FLOSS Manuals

    (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    2008 — Present (1 year)

  • Bid Chairbeing

    PyCon

    (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    2008 — Present (1 year)

    I am on staff for PyCon2009 in Chicago, and I chair the bid committee for PyCon2010 and 2011 in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are in the region, and you or your company use Python, come join our bid, and come to the conference. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2010Bid

  • Founder

    Earth Treasury

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; E-Learning industry)

    November 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)

    Piggyback on One Laptop Per Child in the US and around the world. Free software, literature, and other educational materials. Wireless and satellite Internet. Connecting schools and other groups in developed and developing countries via e-mail, chat, Webcams, and commerce, and teach schoolchildren how to create sustainable international businesses.

    End Poverty at a Profit

  • Volunteer

    One Laptop Per Child

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; E-Learning industry)

    March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

    Volunteer Coordinator and Recruiter
    Localization Administrator for Haitian Creole and Cambodian Khmer.
    Shadow CEO, organizing volunteers to do all of the jobs that management neglects: electricity and Internet for villages, teacher training, translations, integrated development of villages in governance, economy, health, education, roads, and more.

  • Founding Member

    Open Voting Consortium

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    2003 — Present (6 years)

    Open Source Voting software that produces a paper ballot, so that both the paper and the electronic records can be audited. Electronic voting is essential for some disabled voters. It reliably prevents overvoting and spoiled ballots, and greatly reduces undervoting, but by itself it is inherently insecure and unauditable. Commercial voting system vendors have a dismal record, producing shoddy software and continually violating election laws.

  • Installfest Cordinator

    Silicon Valley Linux Users Group

    (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    September 2008 — April 2009 (8 months)

    Arrange Installfest locations. Provide Linux distributions on CD or DVD for installation on participants computers. Work with LUG President Andrew Fife on getting repurposed PCs with Linux into schools.

  • Senior Technical Writer

    Maskless Lithography, Inc.

    (Machinery industry)

    June 2008 — September 2008 (4 months)

    Stealth startup

  • Senior Technical Writer

    Maskless Lithography

    (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

  • Board member

    WIRE AFRICA

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    December 2006 — November 2007 (1 year)

    Creating a business plan to end poverty in Africa at a profit.

    http://www.wireafrica.org/

    http://africa.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

  • Senior Technical Writer

    InnoPath Software

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    March 2007 — June 2007 (4 months)

    They brought me back! Writing and editing documentation for mobile phone management software.

  • President

    Coalition Against UCE

    (Computer Software industry)

    1996 — 2007 (11 years)

  • Senior Technical Writer

    Shopping.com

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

    Owned by eBay.

    API Technical Writer. Java, WSDL, XSD

  • Senior Technical Writer

    InnoPath Software

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    December 2006 — February 2007 (3 months)

    Writing and editing documentation for mobile phone management software.

  • Simputer Evangelist

    Encore Technologies

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    March 2003 — October 2006 (3 years 8 months)

    Marketing Simputers, the only computers designed for poor people.

  • Senior Technical Writer

    VeriSign, Inc.

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VRSN; Computer & Network Security industry)

    February 2006 — September 2006 (8 months)

    Senior Technical Writer
    Unified Authentication documents
    Managed Public Key Infrastructure documents
    Java and C SDKs

  • Senior Technical Writer

    AOL

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)

    August 2005 — February 2006 (7 months)

    Documenting AOL's new Platform Services, which AOL is using internally to make its own applications interoperate, and which partner companies are using to connect their software to AOL for a variety of business and consumer offerings. Java and C++ SDKs.

  • President

    CAUCE

    (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 1996 — January 2006 (10 years)

    The Coalition Against UCE lobbies for effective laws to prevent e-mail spam, specifically Unsolicited Commercial E-mail.

    http://www.cauce.org/

  • Senior Technical Writer

    Kon-Tiki, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

    API documentation for multimedia network downloading software with Digital Rights Management
    Perl, Java, HTML

  • Senior Technical Writer

    eBay, Inc.

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

    Documenting Java methods for converting Java objects to XML representation for further conversion to HTML, SOAP, and other formats; training materials for new developer hires to become productive within two weeks
    Office, cvs, Java

  • Simputer Evangelist

    Encore Technologies

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    March 2001 — March 2004 (3 years 1 month)

    Encore Technologies, based in Singapore, is one of two manufacturers of the Simputer, the first commercial computer product specifically designed for poor people. My assignment was to explain to the public how this would work, and to promote the Simputer to US computer companies. Although I had some success in bringing the Simputer to their attention, and some companies had publicly stated goals and programs that would have fit, I ultimately failed to convince any of them that this would be a profitable venture.

  • Senior Technical Writer

    Sentius Corp.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    2002 — 2003 (1 year)

    RichLink Software 4.0 Platform Guide
    Documentation of Web annotation software in multiple languages,
    including API
    FrameMaker, Visio Pro, XML, Mac OS X, Linux, Windows 2000

  • Senior Technical Writer

    LynuxWorks

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    2003 — 2003 (less than a year)

    Documentation for LynxOS, BlueCat Lynux, and other embedded and
    real-time software products and development tools. User's Guides,
    Board Support Guides, Porting Kit Guides, Release Notes
    FrameMaker, Windows 2000, Linux, LynxOS, LynxOS-178

  • Senior Technical Writer

    AOL/Nullsoft

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

    2002 — 2002 (less than a year)

    Design online API documentation system using Doxygen for WinAmp 3
    Wasabi SDK.
    Testing: application, SDK, localization
    XML, HTML, CVS, Windows 2000

  • Senior Technical Writer

    Microsoft WebTV

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    October 2000 — March 2001 (6 months)

    API Technical Writer for Microsoft TV Advanced Client, running in settop boxes. I had primary responsibility for DVR software, and contributed to many other documents.
    Word, Microsoft Help Workshop

  • Senior Technical Writer

    KLA-Tencor

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; KLAT; Semiconductors industry)

    November 1997 — March 2000 (2 years 5 months)

    Sole writer responsible for all documentation for three generations of laser microscope system for semiconductor wafer inspection and defect classification. The first generation used Silicon Graphics workstations as controllers and for 3D display. The second and third used Windows computers instead. All systems used robotic wafer handlers with the capability for networked SECS/GEM control. I was responsible for user and technical manuals, addressed to novice users, application engineers, system administrators, field service engineers, factory automation engineers, and others.
    FrameMaker, RoboHelp, Photoshop, Illustrator

  • Senior Technical Writer

    Agilent Technologies

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; A; Telecommunications industry)

    2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

    Complete SDK for optical switch from engineering documents and
    original research papers.
    MS Office, Visio Pro, Windows NT

  • Market Researcher

    GIGA Information Group

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; FORR; Computer Hardware industry)

    1991 — 1997 (6 years)

    Contract researcher and writer of high-tech market reports; editor of conference reports

  • Managing Editor, APL News

    Springer-Verlag, New York

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

    1983 — 1991 (8 years)

    Write, edit, manage, produce ready for printing a specialist magazine on the APL programming language and its applications. When I started, there were no PostScript APL fonts, so I had to paste daisy-wheel output into pages typeset from Pagemaker files. The appearance of usable fonts and better tools occasioned a number of articles on the subject, including a little of the story of non-Latin fonts and typography in general, and of Unicode. Now, if one has the font, one can just type ⍎X←'⍎X' (a recursive expression useful for testing the quality of APL interpreters, and winning entry in one of Stan Kelly-Bootle's programming contests).

  • I had a title??

    EASI APL Systems

    (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    1983 — 1984 (1 year)

  • Senior Analyst

    Strategic, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Market Research industry)

    1981 — 1982 (1 year)

    High-tech market analysis and market research publisher.

  • Peace Corps Volunteer

    Peace Corps

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; International Affairs industry)

    June 1966 — September 1968 (2 years 4 months)

    Teaching English at Kyeonghi University Attached Middle School, Seoul
    Also studied Korean Kayageum and won a prize in the Korea Herald Korean Music Contest for foreigners. Interview in Korean on national TV by TV personality "Flyboy".

Edward Cherlin’s Education

  • Presidio School of Management

    MBA , Business , 2007 — 2007

    Dropped out, Dec. 2007

  • Promatch

    High-tech job-finding skills 1996 — 1996

    Facilitated workshops on basic computer skills, and on job searching on computer; technical interviewer in interview II workshop

    Activities and Societies:
    Training team

  • University of Durham

    audited , Classical Chinese , 1972 — 1973

    Completed three-year course in one.

  • Yale University

    BA , Mathematics and Philosophy , 1963 — 1967

    Activities and Societies:
    Rifle team, Football Band, Concert Band, Dwight Hall, intramural soccer

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Edward Cherlin’s Interests:

Ending poverty; languages, music, math, physics, science fiction, Free Software

Edward Cherlin’s Honors:

1st Prize (classical), Foreigners Korean Music Contest, Korea Herald 1968

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