Hacking Life

When I have time, I often hack on GNOME. I have written a bunch of Gnome Developer documentation and keep on writing some, from time to time. I have also contributed various patches to Bonobo. I have tried to hack on gill some time ago: when I realized how badly gill needed work, I began working on gill backend: gdome. You can find my work on GNOME's cvs under the gdome2 module: Anders Carlson used to hack on gdome2 and Paolo Cesarino is working on it now.

I started writing a book on Bonobo with dirk-jan for O'Reilly but well... I guess I was not motivated enough or I did not have the guts because we never finished it. I organized in march 2000 the first GUADEC (link is dead now :) with the help of Hugues Pisapis, Julien Veyssiere and a few others.

I used to work for Eazel, as an intern, hacking on Nautilus, the new GNOME file manager. It was pretty cool. Of course, now, Eazel is dead and I have to make a living out of proprietary software for the french subsidiary of Sigma Designs. Such is life.

Real Life (diary moved from advogato.)

My life is not that exciting. You really don't want to know me. I kind of suck. Anyway, I was born in Millau (Aveyron, FRANCE) on July the 12th 1978 in the evening. I grew in a small village near Montpellier (FRANCE) till the age of 11. Then, my parents decided to go work abroad: we lived in the United Arab Emirates till I was 17.

I was accepted in the Classes Preratoires of the Lycee Joffre in Montpellier at the age of 18, stayed 2 years there and left for Telecom Paris where I studied micro-electronics, computer networks, distributed and real time computing.

Now, I am supposed to talk about what I like and what I don't like in life. So, I enjoy windsurfing and mountain biking. I also like to read good books (more precisely, Milan Kundera, Daniel Pennac, John Irving and many SF writers) or technical books (Computer Graphics, principles and practice is my prefered).

I hate clubs and night-clubs: a good evening for me is a meal with some friends in a nice restaurant with good wine (a gaillac for example. But not too much ;). An endless discussion on life and the way the world should be run is then welcome.