| Scott Weikart
Scott Weikart, Ph.D., is Senior Systems Administrator
based at
Bengineering, the engineering department at Benetech.
He does much of the data processing of datasets used
by HRDAG projects, with an emphasis on automated techniques to clean
and
canonicalize data, de-duplicate datasets, and link records between
datasets. He has been designing, building and running Unix and
GNU/Linux servers and storage systems for 20 years.
In 1984, Scott
co-founded the non-profit Community Data Processing,
where he co-designed a sophisticated membership database system.
In 1986, Scott was technical founder of the non-profit
PeaceNet online
network, which grew into the Institute for Global Communications
(IGC) family of networks (PeaceNet, EcoNet,
WomensNet, LaborNet). He served many roles at IGC until 2002, including
Board Member and Executive Director.
In 2001, Scott joined Benetech as Senior Systems Administrator.
He
designed and implemented all non-Java code needed to run a Martus
Server
(including designing a novel high-security mode for
running a Linux kernel, and developing an automated installation
system
usable by people with no Unix or GNU/Linux experience). He runs
all the
GNU/Linux servers for Bookshare.org and Martus.
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