Karl-dieter Crisman
Professor Of Mathematics And Computer Science
Wenham, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarKarl-dieter Crisman is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science with 18 years of experience bridging academic teaching and practical open-source engineering. Based in Wenham, Massachusetts, he contributes to major community projects like SageMath and PreTeXt, focusing on localization and internationalization to make technical documentation and websites broadly accessible. He also works on the OpenWeBWorK problem library as a full-stack developer, improving mathematical problem definitions, fixing compatibility with Python 3 and Sage, and refining student-facing clarity. His combined academic role and hands-on OSS work show a commitment to both rigorous mathematics and usable educational tools. Notably, he initiates language support expansions (including German) and fixes subtle UX and conditional-probability issues that directly improve learning outcomes.
18 years of coding experience
German, English
Stackoverflow
4,394reputation
174kreached
192answers
7questions
python
top-5%
Github Skills (28)
xslt10
internationalization10
localize10
localization10
html10
text-editing10
localized10
linear-algebra10
sage9
authorisation9
python9
template-engine9
authorize9
templater9
authorizations9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
PreTeXtBook/pretext
Feb 2015 - Aug 2022
PreTeXt: an authoring and publishing system for scholarly documents
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:6 reviews, 37 commits, 74 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Karl-dieter primarily focuses on improving the localization of the project's documentation system. Their contributions include correcting typos in existing localization files for languages such as English, Bulgarian, Afrikaans, Portuguese, Spanish, Hungarian, French, and Czech. They also initiated the development of a German localization file, indicating a focus on expanding the project's language support. These contributions demonstrate a commitment to making the documentation accessible to a wider audience.
stempublishingpdfpretexttextbook
sagemath/website
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
Source for https://www.sagemath.org/; submit Issues/PRs here to update the website
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 46 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Karl-dieter primarily focused on localizing the website's content. They modified the `templates/base.html` file to include language options, added translations for various languages in the header, and updated links within language-specific pages. They also fixed broken links and updated information related to the website's content.
sagemath
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