Free Software contributor since 2004. Hoping to be able to spend more time on it.

Funding goal

I work as an independent. This puts me in a precarious situation, as I have to constantly spend time looking for customers. This also prevents me from working on larger scale projects. With a more steady income coming from this Liberapay account, I could focus more on my FLOSS contributions and have a bigger impact.

Current focus

My main activity these days centers around two areas.

I co-maintain Fractal, a Matrix client for GNOME. This entails way less code than I wish I wrote, and mostly takes the form of project management tasks, with some wordsmithing sprinkled on top.

Bug squashing is, alongside translations, the first activity I participated in when I started working on Free Software. Ever since, I’ve been providing maintainers with some relief, by triaging their issues, implementing new strategies or improving existing ones if needed, and ensuring their trackers become more manageable.

I sometimes highlight my recent achievements on Mastodon with the #AFdoesFLOSS hashtag.

You can also see some of my activity on the GNOME GitLab.

Past work

Since I started getting involved, my work spanned a wide range of areas. Some highlights follow.

As a GNOME internationalisation (i18n) coordinator for about fifteen years, I ensured our translation process was the best there is. Maintainers could rely on me to help them sort out any issue they faced and get guidance from me when they needed it. Translation teams had a smoother ride, as I was here to organize their efforts and solve problems for them. On top of that, I coordinated the French translation team.

I have organized conferences and hackfests ranging from a handful of people for a couple of days to thousands of visitors for a full week. I later used the expertise I gained in this domain to guide other organizers, and help select applicants for various events.

A director of the GNOME Foundation for three terms, I represented my fellow members, and was the liaison with some internal committees and external entities. During that time, I was also Secretary of the Board, and improved the process for taking and publishing meeting minutes.