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I'm from Belgium, born on 9th of march 1981 and former president of LouvainLiNux, a belgian LUG. Everybody call me "Ploum" online. Sometimes even in real life, so please use this nickname

• My email is ploum at frimouvy.org (or ploum at ubuntu.com or zeploum at gmail.com )
• My Jabber ID is ploum at frimouvy.org (the same)

• My blog : http://ploum.frimouvy.org ([http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?en English only])

I'm an OpenSource Evangelist that like to write (in french, mostly), to talk in front of a large crowd an to travel. I'm the founder and administrator of fritalk.com Jabber server (more than 2000 accounts) and the writer of an [http://www.eyrolles.com/Accueil/Livre/9782212120035/livre-ubuntu-efficace.php Ubuntu french book]. I studied Engineering at [http://www.uclouvain.be UCL] in Belgium and I'm working as a software engineer since 2006.

http://ploum.frimouvy.org/images/livre.jpg

My favourites projects in the FLOSS world are Ubuntu (of course), Debian, GNOME, GStreamer and Jabber. You've maybe seen me in the following communities : Ubuntu, Ubuntu-fr, Ubuntu-be, gnomefr, jabberfr, LouvainLiNux, Andesi,...

Besides OpenSource, my interests in life are Space & Astronomy, Technology, Martial Arts, Sports, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature Literature] and Travels around the world.

What have I done in the OpenSource world ?

(it won't be of any interest to you. I just want to keep tracks of what I did )

Currently working on :

• I use to be an active member of http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org and http://ubuntuforums.org , helping newbies and writing howto.

• I maintain the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/ToshibaSatelliteU200-163 Toshiba Satellite U200-163] page and the related ThinkFinger howto.

• Currently, I'm doing a break in all my OpenSource activities. After four years in the OpenSource community, two books, some conferences, install parties and a lot of friendly new faces, I feel the need to live a bit less in front of my computer.

2006 :

• On Novembre 14, I gave a conference at Louvain-la-Neuve, introducing more than 70 people to Ubuntu, Linux and Free Softwares. This was a Louvain-Li-Nux event.

• The second edition of my [http://www.eyrolles.com/Accueil/Livre/9782212120035/livre-ubuntu-efficace.php Ubuntu book] is available ! Lot of new goodness including a CC licensed chapter about the command line (see [http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?124-ubuntu-efficace the announce on my blog] for more informations).

• As a Summer Of Code, I did the [http://conseil.fritalk.com/conseil Conseil] software wich is an hard client interface against launchpad. Shame on me, it is not yet finished. It can read bugs but not modify them. I think I will not work on it before launchpad as true XML-RPC support.

• Bugs reporting and triaging in both Gnome and Ubuntu Bugzilla.
• Working on specifications for Dapper

• I wrote an article for [http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2006/06/01/110-the-long-time-support-flying-car 6.06 LTS release] ([http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2006/06/01/111-la-voiture-volante-long-time-support french translation])

• My [http://www.eyrolles.com/Accueil/Livre/9782212116083/ book about Ubuntu] is published, in french, at [http://www.editions-eyrolles.com/Livre/9782212116083/ Eyrolles Editions]. See [http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2006/01/06/88-ubuntu-le-livre my blog] for more informations. It was a commerical success according to the editor.

• I was the official interviewer for FOSDEM. Interviews were published on the FOSDEM website.

• I've launched Ubuntu-be, the BelgianTeam at FOSDEM, making [http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2006/03/01/97-it-s-a-long-way-to-the-top a little speech]. Ubuntu-be is now rocking thanks to a lof of very talented people, speaking a mix of both languages of our lovely country.

• My LUG and I organized an install party. Only 30 installation this time but it was still Breezy.

• I've launched the [http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2006/04/06/103-may-19th-the-open-discussion-day-19-mai Open Discussion Day] which was [http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2006/05/17/107-the-captive-clown a success]

• I did the official [http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2006/02/23/96-say-hello-to-your-planet sabdfl hackergotchi] ! Not kidding, that's my greatest contribution so far.

2005 :

• I wrote an article in french for [http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2005/04/08/48-lhoary-ma-meilleure-amie the hoary release] and for [http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2005/10/13/73-breezy-pitez-vous breezy release].

• I have worked a lot in the Wiki to improve specs
• I've done some french translations in Rosetta
• I organized a big Breezy install party with my lug : nearly 100 successful installations
• I gave a talk about Ubuntu at my University

• I was doing bugs reporting and triaging in both Gnome and Ubuntu Bugzilla, then Launchpad

• I've been working on a french book about Ubuntu for Eyrolles Editions

2004 :

• In July, Sébastien Bacher (seb128), invited me as an Ubuntu beta tester. I wrote a long review of the Warty-beta. The only "souvenir" : http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~mako/ubuntu-traffic/u20040903_02.html (look for "ploum")

• For Warty, I wrote the first Ubuntu FAQ in french (there was no french ubuntu website at this time). This FAQ was used as one of the first documentation of ubuntu-fr.org and was widely consulted. I also wrote an article [http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2004/10/21/4-ensemble-les-yeux-leves-vers-le-ciel for Warty release].

• I also wrote an howto about installing Warty on a very old laptop : http://wiki.frimouvy.org/CompaqPresario . (I receive a lot of email about this page and helped some people to have sound on their Compaq )

• I wrote a big documentation about using GNOME 2.6 and Spatial Nautilus (in french)
• I was doing bugs reporting and triaging in both Gnome and Ubuntu Bugzilla.

2003 and before :

• I wrote a long text called [http://wiki.frimouvy.org/ThePerfectDesktop The Perfect Desktop]. It was a long list of recommandations to make Debian+Gnome the perfect desktop. Just what Ubuntu did !

• I was at this time a member of the french debian community. (reporting bugs, writing documentation and helping newbies on http://andesi.org )

• I was for a few months responsible of the french translation of TheOpenCD.
• I was the webmaster, for more than a year of "La Grenouille Bleue", a website that was promoting free software under Windows

• I did [ftp://ftp.crans.org/pub/Install-party/Lionel_Dricot.ogm a speech at Cachan] about the use of OpenOffice. I also published an [http://www.framasoft.net/article1891.html how-to] about installing OpenOffice in an professionnal environment.

Related pages for Ploum : FullSearch(Ploum) Related pages for me : FullSearch(LionelDricot)

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