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Name:	Otto de Voogd
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Homepage:	http://www.7is7.com/
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Editing Interests

I have been interested in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ever since they were trying to gain independence from the Soviet Union. Soon after independence I visited the countries. Estonia in particular made a strong impression on me and although I continued to live and work in the Netherlands I returned to Estonia regularly. The country has changed considerably since independence, and is now one of the freest and most successful economies in Europe. After traveling around the world for 1000 days I finally moved to Tallinn in 2005.

Because I now live there, and use Estonian sites in daily life, I have spent a lot of time developing the category for Estonia. But I also helped to develop the categories of the two other Baltic countries and some for other European countries. Besides editing Estonian categories for the Open Directory Project I am also busy trying to make and publish photos of major sights in Estonia on my website.

The European Union and European integration are also topics that interest me, specifically topics like our common currency, the Euro, and the Shengen area, thanks to which we can now travel from Tallinn to Lisbon without any border controls.

In the field of information technology I develop StatEye, an open source software package for the analysis of website traffic, volunteer for Mozilla, the organization that brought you Firefox, help out with the Access Firefox project, which offers accessibility tools for Firefox, and maintain Foxysearch.org a tool to search the Mozilla ecosystem. I enjoy creating resources for Firefox and sometimes even make games like Browser War Checkers, a web-game themed on the current browser war.

These interests also led me to start editing open source related categories for the Open Directory Project. Specifically those for Firefox and Linux.

Editing Work

The work of an editor involves building a category in a subject in which he or she is interested. We do this by looking and searching for interesting sites about the topic. Sometimes we also use sites suggested by the public, but most listed sites never got suggested, especially the more important and useful ones, such as official sites of governments, embassies, universities, schools, public transport, or sites about interesting topics such as history or science. So this really leaves us no choice but to look for them ourselves.

However developing categories is not limited to adding and reviewing sites. It also involves building category structures and linking between them, sorting sites to the most fitting category, writing category descriptions, adding and creating mozzies, and updating search strings. For example I have created a few mozzies for several categories and made a search plugin for DMOZ.

Join Us

The Open Directory Project is constantly looking for volunteers who want to help develop categories they are knowledgeable about. If you have an interest in a particular topic, please look for the category for that topic and consider applying to become an editor. For your application to be successful read the instructions and any feedback you get carefully.

If you can't join, you can also help us by suggesting good sites that are not yet included in the directory. For example sites that you use or have found to be useful. Write a good title and description and find the most appropriate category to suggest it to. An editor will almost certainly appreciate a well written objective description for a quality site.

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The original copy of my profile on DMOZ is also the most recent version.

Notice:Under no circumstances should you attempt to contact me or any other editor about the listing of your site. It would be unfair to give certain sites more attention at the expense of those who wait patiently. For questions about the directory you can visit Resource Zone.

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