= Didier Raboud, aka OdyX =
== Me ==
Hi !

First of all, If you want to hear from me in my allday life, visit my weblog (mainly in french, sorry) : http://didier.raboud.com/

I was born in 1986 in Switzerland where I spent a large part of my life. I'm living in the French speaking part, near Lausanne, Vevey, in a little town named Corseaux. I'm now studying ''Electrical and Electronical Engineering'' at the [[http://www.epfl.ch|EPFL]].

I'm now spending a year in Madrid learning Spanish and trying to make that year a success.

= Linux Experience =
I first began to use Linux '''as a complete beginner''' (I felt I was ''advanced Windows user'') thanks to a custom distribution based on Fedora Core 2 (then 3 and 4), made by a team in my school : [[http://poseidon.epfl.ch|Poseidon]]. for our ''lowcost'' laptops. Conversion was long and hard, but I've finally saved my soul. After destroying my system at least 4 times (loosing 3D acceleration, RPM-crap, and so on), I began to look around. I finally installed the new born Breezy on a partition for a moment. After one month, I deleted all my Windows stuff, formatted my Hard Drive and Installed Kubuntu Breezy alone for it to. Since then, I increased my Linux skills up to installing Kubuntu Dapper in begin of March.

I plan to improve my little C++ and packaging skills so as to be able to become MOTU and maybe more.

= (K)Ubuntu contributions =
First of all, I use KDE! I'm no sectarist, but I use it per choice and because I like the way it works. So I'd like to contribute for Kubuntu (with a K).

I'm trying to involve in Kubuntu-devel community, I wrote some ''minutes'' for the meetings :
 * [[Kubuntu/Meetings/2006-05-22]]

== French-speaking community ==
I'm pretty lot on [[http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org|the forums]] of the [[http://ubuntu-fr.org|French-speaking community : Ubuntu-fr]] (where ''fr'' means ''francophone'' and not ''from France''!) and I contribute from time to time on its [[http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/|wiki]].
== Kubuntu-fr ==
I'm know involved seriously in creating the Kubuntu-fr website and community (closely connected tu Ubuntu-fr's though). See the [[http://wiki.ubuntu-fr.org/projets/kubuntu_fr|project's page]]. We hope we will have it done for Dapper !
== Bug Tracking for Kubuntu Dapper ==
I reported [[https://launchpad.net/people/odyx/+reportedbugs|some bugs]] on Launchpad. Happily, Dapper '''is''' good, so not so much work !

I spent relatively a lot of time on those bugs :
 * [[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/39312|39312]]
== Translations on Rosetta ==
I translate mainly for French as there would be NO sense to make a different version for swiss-french, the differences are so little (like ''no insecable space into «»'') : [[https://launchpad.net/people/odyx/+translations|my translations]]. Particularily :
 * [[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+source/ubuntu-docs/+pots/packagingguide/fr/|packagingguide]]
 * [[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+source/kubuntu-docs/+pots/aboutkubuntu/fr/|aboutkubuntu]]
 * [[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+source/ept/+pots/libept/fr/|libept]]
 * [[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+source/kde-guidance/+pots/guidance/fr/|kde-guidance]]

== IRC ==
Actually, you can find me very often in #ubuntu-fr, #kubuntu-fr, #kubuntu, #kubuntu-devel. I try to help as much as I can, in my possibilities.

= Else =
== Interests ==
 * Scouting (since my 12 and still going on)
 * Vocal art (been in various choirs since my 8)
 * Coding
  * BASIC on TI-92+ (very funny)
  * C++ at school (I have to practise)
  * PHP (idem)
 * Cryptography, security
  * Author of a "maturity work" about RSA (coded RSA in BASIC though)
 * FLOSS philosophy
 * Languages
  * I'm swiss-french speaking
  * german (not fluent, but can speak pretty well)
  * swiss-german (understood, have to practise)
  * english (not fluent, but can speak pretty well)
  * spanish (almost fluent)
 * Audio encoding
  * I began to read the Vorbis specs, but it stays a little complicated for me yet...

== Hardware ==
I own a Dell Latitude D800 named ''DoxoR'' which is made of:

 * Nvidia Geforce FX5200 3D Card
 * ipw2200 Wifi Card
 * IR and Bluetooth cards