Samuel Penn

I'm a Java/EDMS software consultant living in Hampshire, England. For the last few years my job has involved working on the specification, design and development of Document management, eRecords and Web Content management solutions, in particular the opensource EDMS Alfresco, though I've also worked with Hyperwave, Livelink and Documentum. At my new job, I will probably be working exclusively with Livelink.

Hobbies include gaming (computer games, roleplaying games, wargames and boardgames), reading, managing my Linux servers and programming overly complex simulations of the universe. I have a couple of Sourceforge projects, Mapcraft and Yagsbook, an open source RPG called Yags and I wrote the Cities Mapping Project.

Other places I can be found:

• HantsLUG
• Sourceforge

Photograph collection:

• http://dev.glendale.org.uk/gallery/

Previous identities (no longer valid, but I can still be found in mailing list and Usenet archives):

• sam@bifrost.demon.co.uk
• samuelp@aisb.ed.ac.uk
• smp@dcs.ed.ac.uk

• Books
• Playstation 3 Games

Currently building a new server (Deskcube D500) and reading up on OpenVZ.

• http://mapcraft.glendale.org.uk/ - Mostly working on software to randomly generate a detailed universe for a Traveller campaign, including world maps for several hundred thousand worlds.

My reading time is currently very limited.

• Flat Earth News
• The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
• Coalescent, by Stephen Baxter

• Hitchhiker, a biography of Douglas Adams
• Them, by Jon Ronson
• The Men Who Stare at Goats, by Jon Ronson
• The Emotion Machine, by Marvin Minsky.
• In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, a book about how memory (and the mind) works from a biological perspective. Quite interesting, though I'd prefer it to skip the autobiography bits.
• Sniper, a book about the history and tactics of sniping. Straightforward and an interesting read.

• Dark Heresy, about to start playing in a new campaign.
• True20, about finished playing in a fantasy campaign.

Previously:

• Traveller, running a Traveller game using Yags.
• Legend of the Five Rings, playing a Unicorn battle maiden.