Hello. My name is Scott and I'm a dork.

I'm a web developer named Scott Wilcox who currently lives in Staffordshire, England. I've been developing sites and projects for the past eleven years and I’ve seen quite the number of changes in that time. More recently I’ve become more interested in open data, local data use and visualisation/service production for local areas. I honestly believe that the more data that is released to the general public - the better our lives will become.

I'm lucky enough to have seen lots of the world in my time. Living in the England, the USA and Canada for periods of my life. Culture and life around the world has always seemed to fascinate me so it probably won't be too long before I'm off on my travels again.

It seems this year, I'm mostly seeing more of our beautiful country towards the South West. I've visited Cornwall a couple of times this year and seen gorgeous places like Fowey, Land's End and Crantock Bay. Whilst I was in Fowey, I came across the fantastic Pinky Murphy's which I would recommend you all visit at some point if you're down that way.

On a more personal note, I've been dealing with the issues and side effects of having Perthes disease as a child which can be quite difficult to deal with but I get by as best I can do. I now have more issues and could do with a hip replacement, however I'm trying to push that back as far as I can do.

 

Geocaching & Outdoors

I adore the outdoors. I love walking, biking, hiking and geocaching. I've been interested in nature for as long as I can remember and only now do I seem to be visiting more places in this great, beautiful country of ours. GeoCaching is also a big part of that and there aren't too many days that pass without me finding a cache or two. I also own a number of geocaches too.

 

Projects

I own and run several popular projects around the web. One of these is tweekly.fm which now has over 160,000 users.

Community & Open Data

I do a lot of volunteering work in the local technology circles. This includes social media surgeries, hacks and hackers events and anything else local that I can help with.