Haikel Guemar

Self Intro

Name: Haïkel Guémar
Location: Lyon, France
IRC nick: number80
I work as a senior software engineer (currently doing: Distributed middlewares for HPC and cloud computing)
I use Fedora as my main OS since 2003 and i'm a Fedora Packages Maintainer since 2006
Cloud WG/SIG member
Fedora Board member for F21-F22 releases
I hold a MSc in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

application programming: C (Posix, Gtk+), C++ (Boost, Qt4, Gtkmm), Python (SciPy, Twisted), Objective-C.
web programming: python (turbogears, django), php
basic administration skills on servers: web, scm (svn, git, hg), databases (Postgres, MySQL) and workstations.
package monkey ^^

Fedora Collection as packager/sponsor
Fedora Usability as hacker (python, pygtk).
Welcoming new users (assistance through irc, forums, writing some documentation)
Fedora Ambassador (Lyon, France).
Member of Borsalinux-fr (French speaking contributors and users group)
Animate the Fedora Lyon monthly meetings (informal Local Fedora User Group).
Writer/Reviewer for Fedora-FR documentation project.
I wrote few articles about Fedora for local magazines.
Organization of a FedoraProject presence in JDLL (October) along with ambassadors BenoîtMarcellin, MaximeCarron and some fellow guys. JDLL (Journées Du Logiciel Libre| Free Software Days) hosts meetings between Free Software related actors (companies, associations, projects etc.) and public, many conferences.