LionelDricot

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I'm from Belgium, born on 9th of march 1981 and actual 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, system administrator, engineer student 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 Ubuntu french book.

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'm doing bugs reporting and triaging in both Gnome and Ubuntu Bugzilla.
I'm an active member of http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org and http://ubuntuforums.org , helping newbies and writing howto.
I'm working of the second edition of my book
I'm selected for the SoC 2006, working on a GnomeLaunchpadFrontend
I'm working in the wiki to improve specs

2006 :

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'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]

2005 :

I wrote an article in french for [http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2005/04/08/48-lhoary-ma-meilleure-amie the hoary 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.

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