John Cummings
Online Education
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Cummings is an open-knowledge strategist with 11 years’ experience helping UN agencies and cultural institutions publish and share content under open licences to amplify global access. As Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO and the Science Museum Group and now working with FAO and Wikimedia Sverige, he has trained hundreds of staff and developed repeatable processes that put thousands of images and publication texts onto Wikipedia, reaching millions of monthly views across dozens of languages. He led partnership work for the 2030 Wikimedia Strategy and has launched institution-wide programmes—Wikimedian in Residence tracks, staff manuals, and FindingGLAMs—that turn archive collections into openly licensed public knowledge. His projects span cultural heritage, health, environment and gender, and include organizing high-profile events like Wiki4Women and exhibitions with Wikimedia chapters. Notably, he built the world’s first freely editable multilingual virtual museum using QRpedia and consistently focuses on operationalising open licensing so organisations can sustain public impact.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Environment: journeys through a changing world, Environmental Science, Pass, 60 Credits, Environment: journeys through a changing world, Environmental Science, Pass, 60 Credits at The Open UniversityFoundation Diploma in Art & Design, Art & Design, Pass, Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Art & Design, Pass at Hereford College of ArtsCoach Practitioner, Coach Practitioner at TPC LeadershipAdvanced Leadership Programme, Youth Leadership, Advanced Leadership Programme, Youth Leadership at WYSE InternationalWikimedia UK Trained Trainer, Wikimedia UK Trained Trainer at Wikimedia UKMozilla Open Leaders Programme, Mozilla Open Leaders Programme at Mozilla FoundationPostgraduate Diploma, Fine Art, Pass, Postgraduate Diploma, Fine Art, Pass at University of the West of England
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (186)
python10
code-generator10
altium-designer10
wikipedia10
commodore10
qml10
slicer10
gcode10
3d-printer10
pyqt10
cnc-controller10
slicing10
sd-card10
printer10
hardware10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
articlewikirank/hackthepress-wikirank
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:32 commits, 32 pushes, 1 comment in 1 day
mrjohnc/Map-of-the-open-movement
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:75 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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