Vincent Untz

• Blog: http://www.vuntz.net/blog/

• Homepage: http://www.vuntz.net/

• Email: vuntz@gnome.org

• IRC nick: vuntz

Short bio

When he's not procrastinating or eating ice cream, Vincent Untz shows his real face: he is an active Free Software enthusiast, GNOME lover and advocate. Rumours say Vincent started contributing by triaging bugs for the GNOME Bugsquad, before becoming maintainer of various GNOME modules. However, he finds it's simpler to declare he is a "touche-à-tout", since he worked on various (some say random) areas of the desktop, and he held several positions in the GNOME project: Release Manager (2007-2011), member of the GNOME Release Team (2005-2011), GNOME Foundation director (2006-2010) and chairman (2009-2010), among many other roles. Vincent is still pushing French as official language for GNOME, and hopes to succeed really soon now.

Photo: What do I look like?

• https://plus.google.com/photos/110020735578104565833/albums/5644297546504005441/5644297552037909666

• http://flickr.com/photos/fcrozat/2305532694/in/set-72157604025233966/

• http://tieguy.org/pics/GNOME/GUADEC2006/PEOPLE/mugshots/IMG_0873

• http://dev.linux-foundation.org/~till/dam2-2006/photos/image-large.html#current=0509-113116-1200x586.jpg

• Cached versions available at http://people.gnome.org/~vuntz/photos/me/

What am I working on?

In GNOME, I used to work on (in random order):

• things I forgot

• Evangelism at conferences

• GUADEC 2014 Program Committee

• GNOME Foundation Advisory Board, as representative for Novell/SUSE (2010-2014)

• GUADEC 2013 Program Committee

• several modules I maintained (2003-2015):

  • gnome-web-photo (2011-2015)

  • gnome-panel (2003-2013)

  • libwnck (2004-2013)

  • gnome-menus (2004-2013)

  • libgweather (2008-2013)

  • gnome-desktop (2004-2012)

  • gnome-session (2006-2012)

  • pessulus (2005-2012)

  • gsettings-desktop-schemas (2010-2011)

• Planète GNOME-FR, as maintainer/editor (2008-2013)

• GUADEC 2012 Program Committee, as chairman (2012)

• Planet GNOME, as maintainer/editor (2009-2011)

• GNOME-FR non-profit organization, as founding member and president (2005-2011)

• Google Summer of Code, as admin and, in some years, mentor (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011)

• Organizing hackfests (2008-2011)

• GNOME-wide roadmap (2007-2011)

• Release Team, as member (2005-2011) and release manager (2007-2011)

• GNOME 3.0 (2008-2011)

• GNOME Foundation Board, as director (2006-2010) and chairman (2009-2010)

• Gran Canaria Desktop Summit aka GUADEC + Akademy 2009 (2008-2009)

• Rhythmbox, with my IM Status plugin (2007-2009)

• Outreach Program: Accessibility, as admin (2008)

• GNOME Goals (2006-2008)

• Google Highly Open Participation Contest, as admin and mentor (2007-2008)

• Women's Summer Outreach Program, as coordinator (2006)

• GNOME Support Forums, to help users (2006)

• GNOME Bugsquad (2002-2005 (?))

• GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee, as member (2002-2005) and chairman (2002-2005)

• GnomeICU, as contributor (2002-2003)

My non-GNOME activities include:

• For work items, see my LinkedIn profile

• openSUSE (2008-2021) (see my wiki page)

• OpenStack (2012-2019) (code contributions, election inspector, OpenStack-fr board member, etc.)

• desktop-file-utils (2006-2015)

• freedesktop.org, and especially specifications (2006-2014)

• cups-pk-helper (2008-2013)

• Ubuntu (2004-2007) (see my wiki page)

• sometimes organizing tracks at events (community track at RMLL (2011, 2012), desktop track at Linux Plumbers Conference 2010, desktop track at RMLL 2006, etc.)

• and more

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