Well for the first time, I think it went very well (well if you keep asides some little material pbs such as a few ethernet cables...)

More than fifteen people gathered for the event. After doing some launchpad registering, we have started to speak of some themes that we faced in the Ubuntu development and managing bugs in particular.

I think the idea has been , and most are even interested to go a step further... It rocks !!! and since according the very first feedbacks I have the participants liked the evening too :) It is true that it was very nice and friendly... in the ubuntu community way :)

It is now official, since I have updated all the paper of our legal entity, that I am the new leader of the french Loco (http://www.ubuntu-fr.org). But I am not alone, and quite a renew of the team happened (and is still going on)... Of course I'd like to thanks all the guys who has worked hard to make ubuntu-fr what it is today. Thus trying to improve it, will be a greater challenge...

One of our the first decision has been to move our local entity address, to my private one, since we had some problems with the previous address... It should help us a lot...

But expect more to come : indeed we have lots of ongoing work, since we had already started the transition for some months : new website (the transition to drupal should be done within weeks..), new projects, rework of some existing procedures with the permanent will to include more and more people in the decision process... To sum up, lots of stuffs that I'll be glad to detail here :)

It's been a long long time that I have not blogged...more than 2 months. I know it is bad.

Well to sum up I've been really busy with many stuffs : the Hardy release, some marvellous holidays all accross Mexico, lots of activities around ubuntu-fr and quite a lot of work for my company.

But I have to blog on the upcoming event : thanks to my company I am heading to the Ubuntu Developper Submit in Prague. It will be really great to meet all the guys with who I, try, to work dialy :) So if you see my face (and my 2 meters that might be with it) come and talk to me !

For the last few days I have the feeling that the 5-a-day Ubuntu movement has the tendency to lower a bit... Is it just my feeling, I don't think so...
So come on evreyone, let's continue that great movement !
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Do 5 a day - every day! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day

Ath the end of this week I'll be attending, thanks to my company, the FOSDEM in Brussels. I'm thrilled about going what is sometimes called the best FOSS developers conference.

So if you see a more than 2 meters guy, whose face looks like the one standing next to this blog entry, just come to talk to me, I'll have less the feeling of being an almost anonymous guy :)

BTW, if you have any Ubuntu related stuffs planned, I'll be glad to join :) So leave me a comment...

Since the begining of the year, I have started a new job in a French company : Makina Corpus... The interesting thing is that this company is not only working with Open Source Softwares, but they are also really contributing to various projects and to the community.

At the beginning my work will be focussed on drupal. But I might also put my hand in plone/zope and GIS development since these are the main expertises of the company.

The good news is that, with the possibility that we have to work on 'our own' project I migth have a few more time to spend working on Ubuntu an Ubuntu-fr :)

I am sure most of us will agree to say that when a company proposes to support their products for Ubuntu, it is a good things... In the MOTU team, as far as I see, there is a will to report everything possible upstream.

So when Zimbra proposes to support their products on Hardy if the community shows an interest... the community should show the interest !

There is a vote system available on their bugzilla, in order to vote (the kind of stuff that Dell did for their innovation process, while we had the opportunity to ask for Ubuntu on Dell systems...).

Well you know what you have to do... it will only take 3-4 minutes of your time to register and vote... it will help to improve Ubuntu...

First blog post to be presented in the planet Ubuntu, which is the result of my new Ubuntu membership.

Well, in such occasion I guess an introduction might be the thing to do :) First of all, I am very proud to be part of the planet, since I am reading it for a couple of years now, with great respect to many of the participants...

back to me : I am born 30 years ago in the South West of France...... and then one day I've been introduced to Linux... and then many years later, I heard of something called ubuntu... And now I am here still in the South West of France, exactly Toulouse :)

Lately I have been quite involved in the French Loco, as I am one of the responsible of the whole french site.

But I am also making my road inside the MOTU world, trying to be a good contributor... and one day may be, I'll have enough skills to become a MOTU. But this is clearly not the case at the moment :)

To conclude I might say that I also like pizzas, it is true, but I think that the only who might say that, has the hidden goal to export some more italian food out of the country :)

Since yesterday Community Council, I am officially an Ubuntu Member... So the first step of my mid-term road inside the Ubuntu World has been acheive...

Thanks a lot to all my supporters that went to the meeting, especially Cesare and Daniel... ROCK ON ! :)

Lately I've been taking more and more time doing stuffs on the ubuntu world. Both on the french community (I am one of the responsible of the ubuntu-fr.org), but also on the distribution itself.

So I've decided to apply to the Ubuntu membership. It should be decided soon (in the next few monthes let say) during the community council, where stands a few top members of the Ubuntu world, like Mark Shuttleworth (the ubuntu founder) or Daniel Holbach (my mentor). I hope everything will be ok.

It will be just one step on the MOTU (Master Of The Universe) road, that I hope I'll be able to accomplish... But that will be another membership that I'll apply in the next years :)