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[[File:Kasper-hitch-nh.jpg|thumb|300px|[[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[[:guaka:|site]], [[User talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> hitching in [[New England]] taken by [[User:Amylin|Amylin]], September 2007]]
[[File:Kasper playing guitar at beach.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Playing guitar at the beach in [[Nelson]], [[New Zealand]].]]
He was born in [[Nuth]], [[Netherlands]], but lived in [[Paris]], [[Mali]], hitchhiked through [[Europe]] and [[South America]] for If there's a long time, and worked a bit in [[Lima]], [[Peru]]; [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], the [[United States]], [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]], from [[Thailand]] to [[Hong Kong]] and in [[Europe]]. Lived in [[Trento]], [[Italy]] since July 2007, and as of January 2008 in [[Amsterdam]]. In October 2008 he hitched from [[Amsterdam]] to [[Jerusalem]] through [[Turkey]]technical problem with Hitchwiki, [[Syria]] and [[Jordan]]contact hitchwiki524 AT myusername DOT org.
== Professional activity ==
Hitchhiking [[:kasper:hitchhiking-great-business|has been great]] for developing my professional skills.
In 2008 I started working as an [[:guaka:consultancy|independent free software consultant], mostly with Drupal, also some CiviCRM and MediaWiki (e.g. for [http://wikimini.org/ Wikimini]), mainly with NGOs but also for businesses (such as my family's [http://sourenmeubels.nl/ teak furniture business]).
As of 2016 I'm focused on building a fintech company, [[:b2bpay:about|B2B Pay]].
on behalf of the 5 Luxembourgish people who are tired of seeing their little country's name being misspelled
'''guaka''' is one of the administrators of this wiki. He moved the wiki from <tt>hitchhikingguide.org</tt> to Wikia, since over there it was being spammed all the time. And then, on November 24 2006, to [[project:about|hitchwiki.org]], together with [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]].
Guaka is or has been also active on many Wikipedias (he founded the [httphttps://bm.wikipedia.org Bambara] and the [httphttps://ff.wikipedia.org Fulfulde Wikipedia]) and on Wikitravel. And he has worked on many online projects, but Hitchwiki.org is definitely his favorite, because of:
* the free license,
* the convivial atmosphere,
* [[Africa]]: [[Bamako]] ([[Mali]])
* [[Oceania]]: [[New Zealand]], [[Auckland]] to [[Wellington]] and around the South Island, [[Australia]], from [[Sydney]] to [[Melbourne]]
== Random stuff ==
=== [[Driving for your driver|Driving for my drivers]] ===
* In 2005 or so, getting out of Paris, after being dropped at a really bad spot I started [[walking on the highway]] in the hot sun and after half an hour I was picked up by a guy moving from his stuff from [[Paris]] to somewhere south from [[Toulouse]]. He let me drive his car for 2 hours.
* In June 2008, hitching from Amsterdam to [[Avignon]], I managed to get to a busy gas station in [[LuxemburgLuxembourg]] at around 22:00 and found a ride straight to my destination. The car's dashboard was not working, I wasn't convinced of the driver's driving style and after an hour or so, and asking about my driving license, he offered me the steering wheel. I drove all the way to Avignon.
* In August 2008, hitching from [[Berlin]] to [[Trento]] an Italian at a gas station close to [[Munich]] was a bit tired. He had dinner there and I showed him my driving license and I drove all the way to Trento through the pouring [[rain]].
