User:Reechard

'''Pianist. Composer. Author. Software Engineer.'''

Richard Walker was born in greater Los Angeles, California in the 1960s. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Richard was a student of the late Robert Sheldon, of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Sheldon had studied with the renowned teacher Egon Petri. Richard often goes by the nickname "Reechard", i.e. "Richard" in the French pronunciation.

Wikimania 2012 proposal: Saving Egon Petri

Biography prepared for Wikipedia: Sarah Cahill (pianist)



Public-domain (Poland and USA) image of added to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.

Todo

Explain why so much of the WP process for image copyright clearance was useless to me

There is room for improvement in the way the copyright alerts work. Paragraph 2 sentence 1 below makes it extremely unlikely that anyone other than myself will successfully assert and take it all the way to Commons CC-0.

Done/Other
 * Added Witold Lutosławski, another photo found in Ruch Muzyczny confirming archive is well worth investigating. Online archives of magazine only date back to 1995, but all issues contain re-printed articles of note from the past
 * Petri photo copied to Commons, with universal CC-0 (public domain USA). Awaiting admin approval
 * Successfully argued image is PD-Poland in WP forum on image copyright. We have Petri photo!
 * Polish copyright law confirms this photo is in the public domain
 * The photo re-appears there in 2006 in his article on Petri
 * Stefan K. gave me his source, a Polish music magazine he scanned the photo from, and which he writes articles for
 * Contacted Stefan K. regarding Petri photo. His is the best I can find
 * Cleanup pass over Leo Laporte
 * Cleanup pass over the TWiT podcasts template
 * Added OpenVOS the the list of POSIX-compliant via compatibility feature
 * Added Sarah Cahill (pianist)
 * Alex Lindsay errata
 * Daisy Whitney update
 * Egon Petri student list update
 * Gabriela Lena Frank Carnegie Hall Commission
 * Amber Mac update
 * Citations for article on Loose Change (2007 film)

Notes


 * Cite using WebCite Remember to remove the circle-R trademark assertion after "WebCite"
 * Add Robert Sheldon? Look for suitable published source material, may be able to locate song cycles.
 * Incorporate suggestions made in Editor review/Reechard to Sarah Cahill (pianist). These sources are yet to be used.