Joining Lanedo
Today is a new step in my life : I’m starting to work for Lanedo, an European GNOME company.Each change in a life is a somewhat sad. I’m leaving an innovative usability job with a bunch of very good...
View ArticleCricket, cows and GNOME 3
How strange. I’m sitting in my apartment in Belgium, I don’t hear any horn, my food tastes surprisingly unspicy and there’s no cow in the streets.It is impressive how quickly India can grow on you....
View ArticleElections 2011: fostering the GNOME commercial ecosystem
During last Fosdem, I bumped into Joaquim Rocha, from Igalia. — I heard that you joined Lanedo, he told me with a bright smile. Congratulations! — Well, thanks, I replied. I guess we are competitors...
View ArticleOne year of LibreOffice
Not so long ago, OpenOffice.org was the less attractive project of the Linux ecosystem. You would need it, you would use it daily but you would not think it was possible to contribute to that project...
View ArticleWhat happened during GSoC 2011?
I know I’m very late, but I really wanted to talk about this year Google Summer of Code.For the third year in a row, I was a mentor. And this year I have a huge deception to share. I’m really sad. This...
View ArticleCrosscompiling LibreOffice for Windows on Linux
LibreOffice heads to become one of the most prominent Free Software in the desktop ecosystem. Despite an increasing trends towards alternatives, most of desktop users out there are using a Windows...
View ArticleA freasy future for GNOME
Last week, Lanedo sent me to GUADEC, the GNOME developers and users conference. As you may have read elsewhere, the conference was wonderfully organized, with splendid weather, gorgeous food and...
View ArticleWhen technical experts do the job of politicians
As most of you know, I’m working for Lanedo, an Open Source consultancy company. Free software is not reserved to students and a geek elite anymore: it’s a real professional solution that brings many...
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