WORK IN PROGRESS

About me

My name is Yannick Mauray. I am also known in some corners of the internet as the French guy from Switzerland.

In my day job, I am a software and web app developer. I regularly write programs in C#, PHP, Python, and Javascript. I used to write programs in Java, Groovy, Scala, and many other languages running on the JVM.

I discovered Ubuntu with the Hardy Heron release (8.04), and I have been using it ever since in some shape or another. I did use other linux distributions, either at home or at work, but I always come back to Ubuntu after a while. I am currently running Ubuntu "vanilla" on my main desktop machine, and Ubuntu MATE on the laptop.

I am a geek, and a maker. I spend most of my free time coding stuff, doing some woodworking, soldering wires to various single board computers, 3D printing objects with various degrees of usefulness, or even doing crochet !

I am also the host and producer of two podcasts : Tea, Earl Grey, Hot !, an unofficial Star Trek fan podcast, and Makers Corner, a tech oriented DIY podcast.

I recently joined the Ubuntu MATE team, to help with the rewrite of the Software Boutique.

Contact info

Contributions

As part of the Ubuntu MATE team, I have provided french translations for the website. I have also sent a few pull requests to upstream projects, including MATE Desktop Environment and brisk-nenu.

Since April 2021, I am in charge of rewriting the Ubuntu MATE Welcome / Software Boutique app. Every thursday, I try to do a one hour live stream on my Twitch channel, in which I showcase my progress, do some research, and a bit of live coding.

Although not directly related to Ubuntu, I have also contributed to snapd, by providing the necessary interface to allow snap apps to talk to `jackd1`, the daemon for the Jack Audio Connection Kit.

On top of adding that interface to snapd, I also enabled jack support in the OBS Studio snap.

Recently, I have joined the snapcrafters team, to help with maintening the many snaps that team is reponsible for.

Since September 2021, I host a one hour stream on the UbuntuOnAir channel (Twitch and YouTube) [More info on that when it actually starts]

Future Goals

I want to keep contributing to the Ubuntu MATE project,

Testimonials

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