4 Generations: Shown from left, "Poppa" Chris Cope, "Great Grandpa" Lloyd Cope, "Daddy" Tyler Cope and "Max" Maximillian Hines Cope, born January 16, 2004 in London UK

My wife Lesley and I live in Nepean, a neighbourhood in the City of Ottawa, Canada's National Capital. I've got 3 pretty terrific kids, Tyler, Jessica and Melissa.

My son Tyler, is a graduate of Carleton University where he obtained a Bachelor of Computer Science (high Honours). Tyler is a partner in a firm called CleanCode, a young dynamic company providing business and technical consulting services to North American and European private and public sector organizations. CleanCode specializes in portal implementation and custom enterprise web application development, using state-of-the-art technologies from market leaders such as Vignette, BEA and SUN.

My eldest daughter Jessica graduated from Canterbury High School (OSSD) in 1998. Jess shares my love for "Wettin-a-line"  Jess plans to attend the Kemptville campus of the University of Guelph in the fall of 2007, where she will take a 2-year Diploma course in Agriculture.

My youngest, Melissa ("Mel" to her friends)  graduated from Sir Robert Borden High School. in 2004 and went on to study Criminology at The University of Toronto where she graduated with an Honours B.A. with a Criminology major and History minor in the spring of 2007.

I am work for the City of Ottawa as an Economic Development Consultant. I have been heavily involved in several "business friendly" projects at the City including connectivity projects set out in the City's Broadband Plan especially, the rural broadband project and the city-wide toll-free calling telephone initiative to make the entire city (post amalgamation) a single telephone calling area.  Previously, I was Director, SmartCapital Special Projects at The Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation or "OCRI". In that capacity, I spent four days per week at City Hall, working on community technology projects. I am also working as Coordinator of ORCnet an organization of people and businesses working with the City's help, to deploy broadband in the rural communities of Ottawa

I have a special connection with The National Capital FreeNet / Libertel de la Capitale Nationale  From 1997 until the end of 2000, I was NCF’s Executive Director, and although I am no longer a member of FreeNet’s paid staff, I continue my involvement with NCF and am a member of the FreeNet Board. Since 2001, I have held the position of President and Chairman of the Board.

I am Vice President of Telecommunities Canada Inc., an organization that represents and promotes the Canadian community networking movement at the national and International level. I am a member of the working group of the Eastern Ontario Broadband Coalition (EOBC) a group made up of community stakeholders who recognize the need to bring together all the organizations in eastern Ontario, working on the common objective of providing broadband connectivity to the majority of residents, businesses and institutions across eastern Ontario.

I am on the steering committee of The Millennium Learning Centres, a CAP network with 16 sites and until recently was on the Board of Volunteer Ottawa, where I chaired the Technology Committee and served on the Volunteer Learning Network. I am past Chair of the Nepean Environmental Committee, a citizen advisory committee of the former City of Nepean.

While my principal hobby is messing around on a computer, fishing is also a passion and most summer weekends, you'll find me at my favourite pastime, washing off lures behind my 14' aluminum boat, "The Basstub"

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