Me

I am a 25 years old French system administrator, living near Paris.

About my Linux profile, I started using Linux with Red Hat 6 in 1999. I then really become a regular Linux user since Mandrake 7.0 with a KDE based interface. I used Mandrake until 9.0 release of Mandrake, and then decided to try debian, and was truly satisfied with it, despite the long configuration time it took to have a working environment. I found the apt tools really cool compared to rpm one.

I was seeking for an easy-to-use and install Linux distribution. I found the "no-name-yet", known as Ubuntu today, and become to take some test with it and immediatly loved it) I have sticked with it and Ubuntu makes me love the GNOME environment since this date.

I also went in Africa for one month with a non-governemental organisation, Africeduhttp://www.africedu.fr : (project 2006: Lome, capital city of Togo), shipping in a school 60 computers set up with Ubuntu 5.10 (and upgraded there to 6.06 from on old hard drive!). We made some training there.

I am now a MOTU, ie Ubuntu developer :)

As a programmer, I know C++, XHTML/CSS, PHP, XML/XSL/XPATH, shell scripting (Bash/Ksh) and java languages. I am currently learning python which seems to rock on!

Ubuntu Involvement

  • As previously told, I am a MOTU! I am working more specifically in my two prefered areas: ubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-server teams. I worked also on [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Bzr] in the desktop team for packaging (add and update a package) and some other pages are still in progress to have step-by-step usage of such workflows.
  • I am involved in French ubuntu-fr loco team as a member of the administration team and part of the chair (as the secretary) of ubuntu-fr French association.
  • I am also the author of Simple Comme Ubuntu, free book (under CC:By-Sa licence), part of framabook collection, solded at more than 2 200 copies only by the Internet, and downloaded more than 200 000 times at the very moment. This book is always updated with the last version of Ubuntu. A version to be integrated with Dell PC is in preparation.
  • I contribute to French wiki documentation documentation and wrote some wiki pages like ndiswrapper page or Smartmontools page.
  • I also went in Africa for 1 month with a non-governemental organisation, Africedu: (project 2006: Lome, capital city of Togo), shipping in a school 60 computers set up with Ubuntu 5.10 (and upgraded there to 6.06 from on old hard drive!). We made some training there.
  • My main goal now is to promote Ubuntu in France, and particularly in Paris with Ubuntu Party. This is why I am one of the main organizers of Ubuntu events in Paris (like "Ubuntu Gutsy" and recently "Ubuntu Hardy"). In November 2008, 29rd & 30th: Intrepid Feist was an amazed party with more than 4 000 visitors in two days. Main channels: #ubuntu-fr-party@Freenode
  • I runned bugjams during the ubuntu global bug jams also in Paris
  • Finally, I try to represent the French community at big events (like RMLL, Linux Solution, Fête de l'humanité, Paris Capitale du Libre) or smaller one (Braderie de Lille and LibreAcces, festival of free music in Paris where people can download the music from Ubuntu workstation).

Projects

  • In addition to my task as a MOTU and ubuntu-fr secretary/representation/events organization, I work as a personal project in a parental control GUI, called GChildCare.