User:Bochecha

Mathieu Bridon

I'm a french junior system engineer in an IT service company specialized in FOSS.

I'm currently living in what others call "the most beautiful city in the world": Paris (they are so wrong -_-)

I also am a Novell CLP and a RHCE.

Realisations in the FOSS community

Fedora

I've been using Fedora since Fedora Core 5 (Bordeaux, what a wonderful name :-). Since then, I've been an active member in the French community.

Mohamed Elmorabity and I co-founded the Fedora | Paris project. What we do is gather the Fedoristas who live in Paris and have diner more or less every 2 weeks, and more if the night goes on. Of course, we all already know each other on IRC or on the forums, so those meetings are more a way to know the non-geek-side of each other, and build friendship inside our community. The subjects of conversation can be geared towards Fedora but it is not mandatory. We are not a LUG, Fedora is merely what brought us together. Put in other words, Fedora | Paris aims at seeing what lays beyond the geeky mask. Fedora | Paris is also responsible of providing the restaurants and after parties for the Fedora Community regarding events organized in Paris. As a result, we are proud to count Max Spevack and Yaakov Nemoy as international guests (as well as the French community members who don't live in Paris but gave us a visit).

I also contribute to Fedora by packaging.

Under pressure (and guidance) from Thomas Canniot, I became a Fedora Ambassador in June 2008.

As of February 2009, I am the assistant secretary of the Fedora-Fr NPO.

Development

I initiated Shomyu. The goal is to provide a web application for members of a community to locate themselves and add a short description about them.

Shomyu was born after frustration from not being able / wanting to use the proprietary Frappr service that Fedora-Fr was using at this time. Let's hope Shomyu can replace it if it ever gets in a working enough shape.

I also contribute to the PyF framework. PyF is a pure Python framework for building flow-based applications, that is applications that can handle lots of data without ever loading more than one item in memory at a time, thus being highly scalable.

Events

I participated in the organization of several events in France.

Plans for 2010

Here's what I want to do for 2010:

• Help develop more the french speaking community and have it work in a less "insular" way.
  • Thomas and I published our 2009 activities and financial report and we will continue doing the same each year, which is a great first step in communicating on our actions
  • let's try and find more ways to have better relationship with the rest of the broader community
• Put to use the XO that I bought and help the OLPC / Sugar projects.
  • OLPC-France needed more XO for a deployment in Madagascar, so I guess it's more useful to a Malagasy kid than sitting idly on my desk...

Contacts

• e-mail: bochecha {the weird "a"} fedoraproject {I think the english word is "dot"} org
• IRC: bochecha on Freenode.
• Blog: http://blog.fedora-fr.org/bochecha