Paul Jones

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paul Jones is Strategic Consultant in Informatics at Intrahealth International as well as the director of ibiblio.org (the site formerly known as MetaLab and SunSITE UNC). In addition to speaking and writing engagements all over the world and the internet, Paul teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Media and Journalism.

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Open source app takes on Ebola and mental health in Liberia

Angie Nyakoon and Amanda Gbarmo Ndorbor are two outspoken and energetic women who oversee the Mental Health Unit at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) in…

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pjones

29 Aug 2017

What was your first programming language?

WATFOR was a reduced version of FORTRAN (yes both were written in all caps) from Waterloo University used to educate freshmen in computer science at NCSU in 1968.
Its cousin WATBOL was a reduced version of COBOL (again note the all caps) was also lightly used as was 360/Assembly language.

pjones

24 May 2016

19 years later, The Cathedral and the Bazaar still moves us

For what ESR err Eric Raymond is up to now see his very active blog: http://esr.ibiblio.org/ and his collected (by him) writings including Cathedral and Bazaar http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/