I am an official Member of the GNOME Foundation and of the FACIL non-profit organization (defending FLOSS and users' digital rights in Québec). I was previously president of the GNOME Foundation, among other things.

With over 15 years of involvement in the Free Software community and open-source methodology, I have a particular affinity with this branch of the IT industry. My experience in the field, combined with my background in business, makes me one of the very few publicly available bona fide free/open-source marketing & business management consultants on the planet who can claim expertise in the field with a straight face. If you're looking for someone with a deep understanding of how the FLOSS community works, thinks and feels, and who can help your business integrate with it the proper way, you may be interested in my services.

Direct contributions

Design

See my interaction design page.

Code

Here's my geek badge, click it for details on open-source code contributions:

You can also look at my Github profile.

Here is some software I wrote or contributed to:

• Pitivi, the video editing application for which I have been an official co-maintainer and interaction designer for a couple of years. I am now involved in an occasional fashion due to my other professional obligations, so please do not send bug reports to me (use the bug tracker!)
• Specto, notification software
• Post-install installer for Ubuntu, a software setup tool for freshly installed Ubuntu machines
• FrontBringer, a script to manage postponed files
• My semi-automated PHP lightbox gallery script
• Tango icon theme for Apache
• Recipe Manager

Quality assurance

My continued involvement in Free and Open Source software has made me file hundreds of bug reports and thousands of comments on various pieces of software that I have used and loved. Over time, I have involved myself in bug triaging to ease the developers' task. My bug reports are scattered over the web, but are for the most part contained in:

• GNOME (the majority of my work is over there; nominated among the top bug reporters in 2009 and in 2010)
• LibreOffice
• OpenOffice (obsolete)
• Abiword
• Ubuntu and others (Launchpad)
• Freedesktop

I also have a list of some of the top bugs I'm proud to have helped solve or investigate.

I maintained Pitivi's automated user interface test suite for some years.

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Latest blog posts on Free/Open-Source software

• The Longest Debugging—The journey towards a reliable Linux workstation
• Liberté logicielle et matérielle, compte rendu de l’émission La Sphère du 16 septembre
• Defence against the Dark Arts involves controlling your hardware
• Reviewing the Librem 15
• Renommer un périphérique audio avec PulseAudio
• Helping Purism structure its messaging
• 2015 Annual Reports mailed out
• Back from the GNOME Summit
• GUADEC 2016, laptops and tablets made to run GNOME, surprise Pitivi meeting
• Vice-President’s Report — The State of the GNOME Foundation

Read more of these in the FLOSS category of my blog.