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Personal
Crazy French living in Canada. Meet my puppy: Stella
Job
My current job at Novell, involve working on SLED and Linux on the desktop. Prior to that I worked on OpenOffice.org.
My spare time is mostly used by libopenraw, Exempi, Niepce Digital,
gphoto and other digital photography related
Free Software projects. I used to spend a lot of time on
AbiWord.
My CV.
Interests
- Computing
Mostly UNIX and Open Source oriented technologies. (more...) - Photography
I do some Photography. (more...)
Talks / conferences
- July 2008: GUADEC 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
- September 2007: OOoCon2007, Barcelona, Spain
- May 2007: Libre Graphics Meeting 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada
- July 2006: Desktop Developers' Conference 2006 talk in Ottawa, ON, Canada: Cross Desktop Application Scripting. Get the slides
- May 2006: CLLAP 2006, in Québec City, QC, Canada.
- April 2006: Club Linux Outaouais, monthly presentation in French at the LUG meeting in Gatineau, QC, Canada: Photo numérique avec Linux. Get the slides
- July 2005: Desktop Developers' Conference 2005 talk in Ottawa, ON, Canada: Free Software for Digital Photography. Get the slides
- May 2005: talk at GUADEC 6 in Stuttgart, Germany, about Digital Photography in GNOME. Get the slides.
- June 2004: talk at GUADEC 5 in Kristiansand, Norway, about Digital Photography in GNOME. Get proceedings paper and slides.
- April 2004: talk in French at the Libr'east conference, Marne-la-Vallée, France. You can download the slides in PDF.
- April 2002: I have written, with Dom Lachowicz, a paper for a presentation of AbiWord at GUADEC 3, Sevilla, Spain.
Writings
I also write a weblog available here.
Reading
What I read recently...
Contacting me
If you want to contact me electronically:
- e-mail: hub@figuiere.net
- jabber: hfiguiere@jabber.org
- GTalk: hfiguiere@gmail.com
- SIP: hub@ekiga.net
If you want to add me to your "buddy" list in jabber, make sure you have either a recognizable user id, or to let me know who you are. Same for SIP: I won't answer calls from unknown callers.