Welcome!
My name is Aaron Dalton and I'm a graduate student in the Department of Music at the University of Calgary. My thesis research focuses on the madrigals of Filippo di Monte, particularly his 1 à 3 published in 1582. My musical preferences lie primarily in the Renaissance secular vocal realm with a great deal of interest as well in North Indian instrumental and South Indian vocal music.
Organizations
I am involved in a number of organizations and projects both academic and otherwise.
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Super Duper Games
This is my primary and most beloved project. SDG is a free website for playing (mostly) abstract games over the web asynchronously.
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FreeBSD
FreeBSD is one of the *BSD Unix operating systems. It is free to use and is, in my opinion, the best of the group. It is it's ports system that I am most enamored with and am currently a Ports Committer for the project.
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University of Calgary, Department of Music, Graduate Student Conference
I am a member of the organizing committee for the inaugural conference taking place April 25 & 26, 2008. This will hopefully become an annual event.
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International Abstract Games Organization (IAGO)
This is a fledgling association seeking to represent abstract strategy games (as a genre) that are not already represented.
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Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders
Project Gutenberg's goal is to digitize the vast canon of books now out of copyright. They are processing books in many languages. This process is run by volunteers who proofread scanned pages and their OCR derivations. While I have not been very active lately, it is a project I heartily support and encourage everyone to look in to.