LionelDricot

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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.
Hacking and helping on the [http://www.bongo-project.org/ Bongo] mail & calendar server.
I hold a short weekly chronicle about free softwares on [http://www.purefm.be/ PureFM radio].
I will give a talk about Ubuntu in SMEs at [http://ubuntulive.com Ubuntu Live] in Portland

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.

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