Communication
YouTube channel
Besides the publications below, I also have my own YouTube channel, where I typically cover different and varied content that I don’t necessarily write about on my blog. Feel free to subscribe! I appreciate the interest of every single new subscriber, it motivates me to publish great new content on that platform too.
Talks and workshops
- July 2024: Calendaring in the modern desktop (GUADEC 2024, joint talk with Georges) [video]
- July 2020: Raising your favorite GNOME desktop app back from the dead (GUADEC 2020) [video]
- July 2020: interviewed on the "Linux Unplugged" podcast, episode 361 [audio]
- September 2019: The Pitivi project, State of the Union and live demo (JILL/SQIL 2019) [video, in French]
- September 2017: interviewed on Radio-Canada show "La Sphère" (francophone counterpart to CBC's "Spark" show) on September 16th, 2017, as a designated expert on Free & Open-Source software and hardware.
- October 2016: opening session (GNOME Summit 2016, MLL, ÉTS)
- August 2016: The making of the new Annual Report (GUADEC 2016) [video]
- August 2016: Freedom-respecting laptops & tablets manufactured to run a pure GNOME (GUADEC 2016) [video]
- September 2015: national TV channel Télé-Québec summoned me to explain privacy implications related to social networks, in two segments of a documentary about Work & Social Media.
- September 2015: The GNOME Project and the GNOME Foundation, State of the Union (FACIL, the Notman house)
- May 2015: Pitivi, 10 years of libre video editing (LGM 2015)
- July 2014: opening and closing sessions of GUADEC 2014
- July 2014: Pitivi, a cutting tool at the bleeding edge (GUADEC 2014) [available on the Pitivi showcase]
- August 2013: Extreme containment measures: keeping your bug reports under control (GUADEC 2013) [vidéo]
- August 2013: Pitivi & GES, towards 1.x (GUADEC 2013) [available on the Pitivi showcase]
- January 2013: Pitivi, an overview (Montréal Python #34)
- August 2012: GStreamer Editing Services (GStreamer conference 2012) [video]
- May and July 2012: Pitivi & GES, the State of the Onion (GNOME Asia, GUADEC 2012) [available on the Pitivi showcase]
- September 2011: Pitivi workshop (Montréal Libre 2011)
- September 2011: open discussion/workshop on open video editors (Open Video Conference 2011)
- May 2011: Pitivi and the state of video editing on Linux [video, slides] (Libre Graphics Meeting 2011)
- May 2010: Pitivi, an overview [slides] (Libuntu 2010)
- May 2010: GIMP workshop (Libuntu 2010)
- March 2010: Pitivi, an overview [slides] (Ubuntu Global Jam Montreal 2010)
- August 2009: Screening for psychological problems in the intensive care unit (Severe burns intensive care unit, CHUM Hôtel-Dieu)
- May 2009: Pitivi, history and developement [video, slides] (Libre Graphics Meeting 2009)
- May 2009: How to Inflict Trauma on your Audience [video, slides] (Libre Graphics Meeting 2009)
- January, 2009: Specto (Polytechnique)
- January, 2009: GNOME Power Manager (Polytechnique)
- December, 2006: Introduction aux logiciels libres (Collège de Maisonneuve)
Publications, articles & archives
- My articles on Planet GNOME, including some of the more philosophical or popular ones:
- Overhauling your Open Source project's "Developer Experience" and redefining the workflow:
how to revive & structure a community-driven open-source software project in a lean & agile way to avoid team burnout - The goldsmith and the chaos warrior: a typology of workers
- Fix it thrice: TDD, the importance of user data integrity, perceived accuracy through imprecision
- A program's obsolescence: the antithesis to programmed obsolescence
- Prenez garde aux tabloïdes de l’open-source: beware of open-source tabloïd journalism
- Reducing our Core Apps' software inventory: "lean" production and management applied to bug tracking
- Staring into the Axis’ Abyss: the Railgun map: how GNOME can solve its 2012 crisis, revigorate its ecosystem and remain competitive
- Don't make me scroll
- Pourquoi je quitte Ubuntu pour Fedora: why Canonical is not the catalyst of innovation that it claims to be
- On GtkSwitch
- Desktop in the Shell: the irrelevance of icons on the desktop in a modern graphical environment. This article was cited as an influential reference in the making of Nautilus 3.0
- GNOME pour les non-ordinateuriens: some usability observations on non-technical GNOME 2 users
- On software patents et À la défense de Mono: on the futility of shunning technologies based on software patents
- Overhauling your Open Source project's "Developer Experience" and redefining the workflow:
- My blog posts about "Getting Things GNOME"
- The Pitivi User Manual
- Argumentaire sur l'utilisation des logiciels libres à l'Université de Montréal
- official GULUM version (mirror)
- my version (before simplification)
- FAÉCUM's derivated version
- Killing the Desktop Metaphor with GNOME (obsolete, replaced by this blog post on Planet GNOME)
- I Don't Want to Care About the Trash
- Why The GIMP's User Interface Is Not As Terrible As You May Think
- Simplifier ses fichiers et favoris: penser spatialement