About
About Me
My name is Etienne Savard. I'm a software engineer leaving near Montreal,
Quebec, Canada. I like to spent my free time (free as in free speech) with my two wonderful daughters and my wife when I'm not toying with Open Source projects (my own or other's).
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I'm particularly interested by Software Engineering (C, C++, Qt, Ruby, Rails), Agile methodologies and, of course, by Open Source Software.
My tools of choice are Open Source software and Open Source standards. I'm a Linux advanced user and, even though I'm not a sysadmin, I'm at ease with a terminal window.
My Open Source contributions
Below is list of all my contributions in the Open Source Community (excluding the projects hosted here) :
- Open BRR (Business Readiness Rating) : translation of the RFC to French;
- Producing Open Source Software : translation of the book to French (on going);
- Member of Ubuntu French Canadian Translators : translation to French using Launchpad (on going);
- NetBeans Community Contributor : plugin verifier team (I resigned August 14th 2010).
About Symbiosoft.net
Symbiosoft comes from the contraction of two words: Symbiosis and Software. That reflects my views about software development tools:
The software development tools should adapt to the developer and not the contrary.
I think that on of the best way to achieve that is by producing Open Source Software and, improving it iteratively using the inputs and comments from my peers.