[ Thanks to Sam
Varghese for this link. ]
“He’s probably New Zealand’s best-known FOSS figure today but
modestly attributes his achievements to seizing opportunities that
came his way and, occasionally, creating one or two of his own.“Next month, Torkington will be one of the four keynote speakers
at the Australian national Linux conference in Wellington, the
local element in a line-up that otherwise draws on the US of A in
toto. Born in Auckland, he spent some of his early years, from two
to four, in outback Australia, so there’s a bit of the Aussie in
him somewhere too.“The idea of teaching children programming arose out of a desire
to impart knowledge to his own brood. “I wanted my kids’ school to
teach programming. I figure it’s now a basic skill for ‘knowledge
workers’, like changing a tyre is for commuters,” he told iTWire in
an interview.”