User:Jomegat
Jomegat
My real name is Jim Thomas. Among many other things, I am the Pathfinder Director for the Northern New England Conference. My involvement with Pathfinders has inspired me to organize the Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book at Wikibooks back in October 2005. The project grew until 2011 when I was inspired to ask the NAD to adopt the project so that we could expand it to include an instructor's manual for the new Investiture Achievement curricula (which replaced Advent Youth - or AY - that same year).
The IA and AY curricula are more religiously overt than the Honors are, so it was not possible to host an IA Instructor's Manual at Wikibooks. Wikibooks has a Neutral Point of View (NPOV) policy that would prohibit the inclusion of overtly religious material. The NAD embraced the concept, the material was imported here.
An additional advantage of hosting with the NAD is that we can now include images of the Honor insignia. The NAD allows the use of this copyrighted material in conjunction with youth ministries only. That meant the images could not be hosted by Wikimedia (the organization that runs Wikibooks and Wikipedia). They require that any images they host be licensed such that they can be used for any purpose including commercial. By hosting these resources here, we are not bound by those policies (though I do agree that their policies are a very good idea in general).
With the exception of church-related insignia and graphics, we are still bound by the licensing adopted by Wikimedia. All of the material here except for said images is licensed under the Creative-Commons CC-BY-SA license. That is what allowed us to create these resources in the first place. Other people around the globe contributed material to Wikipedia, which we were able to include and modify for use here, provided that the modified work also be licensed under CC-BY-SA. This is a Very Good Thing, and it means that you are allowed to reproduce, modify, adapt, or even bind and sell any of the text you find here. CC-BY-SA is designed to protect the user of the material, not the producer.
Why Jomegat?
Jomegat would be more properly rendered J Omega T, or jωt. My middle initial is W, and the Greek letter omega looks a lot like a w, so jωt (which appears in a lot of equations found in electrical engineering) looks deceptively similar to my initials. In fact I was working with some of these equations once when my wife asked me what I was doing. When I told her I was working on a math problem, she said "That's not math. First of all, there aren't any numbers on that page, and second, you've written your initials all over it."
I hadn't noticed the similarity until that moment. And there were no numbers on the page
More About Jomegat
I am also an electrical engineer, father of three, and husband of one. I advocate the use of Open Source Software (I switched from DOS to Linux in 1995, before Windows 95 was released), and I love woodworking, whitewater paddling, hiking, camping, and identifying wild plants.
Honors
These are the honors I have earned. They are listed according to the year I earned them (most recent first) and then alphabetically.
Welcome to the Pathfinder Wiki, Jomegat!
First steps tutorial
The Pathfinder Wiki is for the collaborative development of Pathfinder resources for the North American Division.
You do not need technical skills to contribute. You can easily change most pages. Please introduce yourself and let us know what interests you.
Goodies, tips and tricks
- Please fill in the edit summary and preview your edits before saving.
- Sign your name on discussion pages by typing ~~~~
Getting help
- Read the Using Wikibooks book for a friendly introduction to wiki editing. Even though it is not hosted here, it is a very good resource for wiki editing.
- You can get direct help by chatting with other volunteers using the free Discord messenger service.
- You can also get help in this very Wiki in the community portal.
Made a mistake?
- You can restore a previously saved version by clicking the History button on any page, found after clicking on the three dots (ellipsis) in the menu.
- Need to rename a page? Use the Move tab, found after clicking on the three dots (ellipsis) in the menu.
- To request a page be deleted, add {{delete|your reason}} to the top of the page.
¡Bienvenido al Wiki de Conquistadores, Jomegat!
Tutorial de primeros pasos
El Wiki de Conquistadores es para el desarrollo colaborativo de recursos de Conquistadores para la División Norteamericana.
No se necesita habilidades técnicas para contribuir. Puede cambiar fácilmente la mayoría de las páginas. Por favor, preséntese y cuéntenos qué es lo que le interesa.
Consejos y trucos
- Por favor complete el resumen de edición y haga una vista previa de sus ediciones antes de guardar la página.
- Firme su nombre en las páginas de discusión escribiendo ~~~~
Obteniendo ayuda
- Lea el libro Using Wikibooks (solo disponible en inglés) para obtener una introducción amigable a la edición de wiki. Aunque no está alojado aquí, es un muy buen recurso para la edición de wikis.
- Puede obtener ayuda directa chateando con otros voluntarios usando el servicio de mensajería gratuito de Discord.
- También puede obtener ayuda en este mismo Wiki en el portal de la comunidad.
¿Cometió un error?
- Puede restaurar una versión previamente guardada haciendo clic en el botón de Historial en cualquier página, encontrado después de hacer clic en los tres puntos suspensivos en el menú.
- ¿Necesita cambiar el nombre de una página? Utilice la pestaña de Trasladar, encontrado después de hacer clic en los tres puntos suspensivos en el menú.
- Para solicitar que se elimine una página, agregue {{borrar|su razón}} en la parte superior de la página.
