User:Angelo.romano

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itQuest'utente è di madrelingua italiana.

scnSt'utenti canusci lu sicilianu comu la sò lingua matri.

en-3This user can contribute with an advanced level of English.

es-3Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español.

nl-2Deze gebruiker heeft een middelmatige kennis van het Nederlands.

fr-1Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

ca-1Aquest usuari pot contribuir amb un nivell bàsic de català.

Location

This user comes from Sicily.

This user comes from Italy.

Music

This user plays the guitar.

gtr-3This user is an advanced guitarist.

bss-1This user is a novice bass guitarist.

This user is a music composer.

Beliefs

This user is a social democrat.

This user sees nothing wrong with the human form and doesn't view it as something that needs to be hidden.

This user supports the European Union.

This user wants Sicilian to be recognized as first and official language of his native country.

This user wants all of Europe to adopt the euro.

WikiProjects

This user is a participant in WikiProject Football.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Sicily.

Programming

py-4This user is an expert Python programmer.

js-2This user is an intermediate JavaScript programmer.

C-2This user is an intermediate C programmer.

c++-2This user is an intermediate C++ programmer.

Java-2This user is an intermediate Java programmer.

PHP-2This user is an intermediate PHP programmer.

css-3This user is an advanced Cascading Style Sheets user.

xhtml-3This user is an advanced XHTML user.

Perl-2This user is an intermediate Perl programmer.

Other

This user's motto is foizza Paliemmo!

This user drinks beer.

This user has a Flickr account as @aromano.

This user is a football coach

This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles.

ehThis user speaks basically Canadian English, and is proud of it

girl-0This user is single by choice (not of him)

UOThis user has an affiliation with the University of Ottawa.

My Political Compass Scores
http://www.politicalcompass.org

Date	Social	Economic
December 3, 2005	-6.15	-5.13
February 26, 2006¹	-7.23	-7.00
May 9, 2006	-7.08	-7.38
May 21, 2007	-6.72	-6.88
October 22, 2007	-6.41	-6.75
January 6, 2016	-7.38	-7.03
June 6, 2022	-7.49	-7.13
¹ I think the imminent Italian general election did some effects on my current beliefs...

First name: Angelo
Last name: Romano
Born: June 19, 1982 in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, Italy
Citizenship: Italian
Currently living in: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
What I do now: Computer scientist (Web developer)
Known languages: Italian & Sicilian (mother tongue), English and Spanish (fluent), Dutch (intermediate level), and some basics of French, German and Catalan too
Favourite football team: Palermo FC

More stuff about me

Professionally, I am a senior software developer and a computer science graduate. I enrolled at the University of Pisa in September 2000, then achieving a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science in October 2004 and a Master's Degree in Information Technology on 12 October 2007.

I lived in Pisa, Italy (yeah, the city of the leaning tower) from 2000 to 2007, and then I spent a year in Florence working as a Web developer. In November 2008, I finally left my bittersweet homeland and moved to the Netherlands. After a few months in Amsterdam, in February 2009, I moved to Groningen, where I lived until September 2011, when I moved to Berlin, Germany. I successively spent 1.5 years in Utrecht before moving to Barcelona, where I have lived from March 2016 to March 2023, after which I moved back to Sicily, in the city of Palermo.

I also had an exchange student experience in the January-May 2004 period at the University of Ottawa, located in Ottawa, the capital city of Canada, where I learned that few English I am able today to use.

I spend my free time enjoying drinks and live music alone or with friends (but now to a much lesser extent than earlier), playing and writing songs and trying to become a football coach. I also used to organize and manage football teams at the local university Sports Services (CUS Pisa) for the Intramural University Leagues with unimpressive results (at least the lads did respect me; that's what I cared about...).

Another thing I love, which is still difficult for me financially, is travelling around the world, especially unplanned trips. A short list of places which I hope to visit before I die is available here.

Music

I released several homemade demos and CDs, which can all be found and downloaded at my personal music website. I also played live concerts (solo and with band) around Europe extensively, hitting countries such as Germany, Spain, Portugal, Poland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Latvia with my original songs.

My favourite topics

Sicily, its history and its culture, Italian football (and related things, of course), Italian politics, history of rock music, the universitary world of Italy (because I think culture is the real richness) and, surely, anything else you want ;-)

Things to read

Political theories

• Social democracy
• Democratic socialism
• Christian communism
• Eurocommunism

Swedish way to social democracy

• Social welfare in Sweden, Scandinavian welfare model, Olof Palme

Canadian way to social democracy

• Medicare, Tommy Douglas, New Democratic Party

Left-wing politics of Italy

• Italian Communist Party
• Enrico Berlinguer
• Giorgio Napolitano
• Democrats of the Left
• Party of Italian Communists

Something about my island

• Sicily, Flag of Sicily and Sicilian language
• U.S. Città di Palermo

Political/social ideas I support

• Free migration
• Civil unions
• Labor rights
• Public education and university
• European integration
• Medical cannabis
• Euthanasia
• Abortion right

Various

I also contribute occasionally on Italian Wikipedia, mainly about Sicilian, Canadian, musical and political articles, and (very) rarely on English Wiktionary, Sicilian Wiktionary, French Wikipédia, [http://commons.