Stuff I do
- Editorial board member and webmaster for the JIRIRI
- Benevolent hotliner for Suicide-Action Montréal
- Benevolent research assistant at the CHUM Hôtel-Dieu's Burn Intensive Care Unit
- Member of the GNOME Foundation
- Founder and benevolent dictator of the Psy-chose student journal
- List of the articles I wrote there
- Member of the Université de Montréal Linux User Group (GULUM)
- Psychology experiments
- Information Technology, Free and Open Source software
- Studies in psychology
- Bounty offers for anyone who wishes to fix my favorite FOSS bugs
- Volunteer for the Comic's Installfests
Publications, articles & archives
- The PiTiVi User Manual
- Killing the Desktop Metaphor with GNOME
- Argumentaire sur l'utilisation des logiciels libres à l'Université de Montréal
- official GULUM version (mirror)
- my version (before simplification)
- FAÉCUM's derivated version
- I Don't Want to Care About the Trash
- Radio-Canada et la vidéo libre en direct: archives d'un échange de courriels
- Se connecter à umontréal en VPN sous Ubuntu Linux
- Why The GIMP's User Interface Is Not As Terrible As You May Think
- Simplifier ses fichiers et favoris: penser spatialement
Other articles (that may be completely outdated, irrelevant, or insane), random notes or thoughts may sometimes be found in this folder, on open-source.ecchi.ca, or in various Psy-chose journal issues.
Talks
- 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)
My babies
- Specto, a notification software
- Installateur Ubuntu, a software setup tool for freshly installed Ubuntu machines
- Kirika, a web server
- FrontBringer, a script to manage postponed files
- My semi-automated PHP lightbox gallery script
- Tango icon theme for Apache
- Various other pieces of software
Translations
I have created or corrected translations in software such as Tasks, Contacts, Dates, GNOME-Schedule, Transmission, Specto, etc. Some of my past translations were done in Launchpad. Nowadays, I usually translate software from the source code repository itself, and email the changes directly to the developers.
The very website you are looking at is an example of that: since your web browser is configured with English as its primary language, the English version of the contents are currently displayed. If your browser was set to any other language, the French version would be displayed.
Code patches
- olive
- jokosher
- pitivi
Bug reports
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 for my own projects (Specto, Kirika, etc.) as well as others' (PiTiVi, Avant Window Navigator) 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; I was even nominated among the top bug reporters in 2009)
- OpenOffice.org
- Abiword
- Ubuntu and others (Launchpad)
- My bounty offers (a list of current bugs that hold dear to me)
Design
For some of my favorite projects, I have designed new logos and icons (when they were missing, confusing or lacking in elegance), sometimes accompanied with a new website to improve the project's image and presence on the web.
I also designed logos for organizations or enterprises such as Ecchi.ca or Tabib Consultant Inc.
Logos
Icons
I made some of the icons used by the following software:
- Navit
- PiTiVi
- homebank
Usability reviews
As a long time artist, graphic designer and usability fanatic, I have been immersed in Human Interface Guidelines and analysis of efficient human-computer interaction and ergonomics.
I have made various comments or usability reviews on software user interfaces (such as Audacity, GRsync, Homebank, Tracker Search Tool, GNOME Schedule, DVD95, urandr, Labyrinth, GNUmeric, Abiword, Liferea, Epiphany, etc.), filed hundreds of bug reports (see above), blogged on the matter, and designed the user interfaces of Specto and PiTiVi.
UI design
Websites
- Kirika
- Anti-FUD
- Nekohayo
- My blog
- Nanokron Studios
- Tabib Consultant Inc. (request)
- François Chiocchio (request)
- Jiriri
- Open-Source
- My tutorials
- Specto
- PiTiVi
- DVD95 (request, based on a template)
Movies
Visit studios for the complete list of movies I made or participated in.Contribs
This is Jeff's (a.k.a. Kiddo or Nekohayo) personal home page. To the left are my modest contributions to the world.
To the right (below) are my latest blog posts.
Journal
Desktop in the Shell
RSS Pour en finir avec Dieu
Previewer in the file chooser
Psychologie et administration
WTFraise
GNOME pour les non-ordinateuriens
Burnt by disc burning
Problème des barres noires résolu
Le pack bitos du donjon de la numérisation
Expérimentation culinaire du jour
Coded entirely by hand in XHTML 1.1 strict and valid CSS, without frames or tables. Created using Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with gedit and GIMP. Some icons are from the Tango project under the creative commons license.