Peter Simonyi

I call contra dances in central Canada. I’ve called for Ottawa Contra Dance, ContraMontreal, and Toronto Contra Dance, plus a couple of non-series barn dances.

Here are a few videos from dances I’ve called. (Thanks to Grace for getting videos of the bands they’ve played in a few times when I happened to be calling.)

I work part-time in arts production support, primarily making the paper (and PDF) concert programmes for the Doors Open for Music at Southminster series. I do a lot of editing of artist biographies and sorting of promotional materials.

I have created and run parallel-text (translation) subtitles for choral performances and produced full-length booklet programmes. I’m also noted as a thorough proofreader, at least when proofreading what other people have written.

I graduated from Carleton University (computer science) where I worked on topics including encouraging exploratory interaction, undo systems, and collaboration on large touchscreens in the HotSoft lab.

I’ve published several Firefox extensions, but most are now obsolete and no longer available. A couple of them remain somewhat useful: Open Bookmarks Slowly, and Show comic title-text.

My occasional drive-by contributions to Free Software projects are mostly uninteresting. But one patch I wrote was described as “impressive Make magic” by Christian Brabandt, maintainer of Vim. I took it as a compliment.