Section oriented past

Name :René Mages ( to pronounce perfectly this french name click here )
This photo was taken during the Metz LSM 2003 (listening Philippe Aigrain): located on the right with a black T-shirt, you can see João Miguel Neves on the left and Jean-Claude Guedon in the middle.
Born in 1946 in Nice; now living in the french riviera (see last section)
Academic curriculum : Agregation of Mathematics ( numerical analysis speciality )
My pride and joy : actively supporting the Free Software movement for many years.
My bible : Information Feudalism : Who Owns the Knowledge by Peter Drahos & John Braithwaite
My favorite Ogg Theora stream : http://stream.unice.fr:8000/essi/stallman.ogg by RMS
My favorite blogs :
- Philippe Aigrain Blog
- Tristan Nitot Blog
My wiki : http://nosoftwarepatents.wikidot.com ( private but readable …)
My website : http://logiciel.libre.googlepages.com ( logiciel libre = free software )
My great peak of jealousy in 2006: when Erik Josefsson makes a premedited raid on champagne bottles
- http://blog.free765.eu/post/2007/07/01/Champagne-for-the-celebration

In summer 2004 Postcard action leader with Holger, Gibus, Adulau …. :
- http://lists.ffii.org/pipermail/sk-parl/2004-August/000004.html
- http://kwiki.ffii.org/Postkard0407En
Pins-badges FFII France ( conception and spread ) :
- http://ramix.nexenservices.com/ffii/badges
Daily help to Gibus since july 2004 ( mainly in translations ). You can see trace directories
- http://people.ffii.org/~rmages/swpat/
Board member FFII ( since december 2007 ) : http://www.ffii.org/Board
Board member FFII France ( since february 2006 ) : http://www.ffii.fr/
Board member LINUX AZUR Lug ( since October 2005 ) : http://www.linux-azur.org
Member of AFUL & APRIL ( since 2002 ) : http://www.aful.org http://www.april.org
Member of Organisation committee JM2L 2006, 2007, 2008 : http://jm2l.polytech.unice.fr/
Participation to LSM Meeting since 2001 : http://2007.rmll.info//rubrique2.html?lang=en

Admin of these wikis ( only the first in english )
One of my greatest joys : to be in front of European Parliament with a yellow T-shirt the 5-6th of July 2005 in Strasbourg and to see in live the "kayak battle"
- http://gallery.ffii.org/v/BxlStbRizox050706/c_2005_A_Barrionuevo_00001.jpg.html
My first FFII board meeting : saturday 07/07/07 in Paris
My second FFII board meeting : sunday 07/12/02 in Brussels
My third FFII board meeting : saturday and sunday 08/03/29-30 in Göteborg
My forth FFII board meeting : saturday and sunday 08/08/2-3 in Berlin

Section oriented present & future

present goals & projects

preserve a good balance between analysis & action (this goal was added during GA2007)
continue to strengthen the perenity of FFII french chapter and to develop partnership with AFUL & APRIL
try
- to push Interoperability at the level of an european right ( see FFII statutes item 2.3 ):
- to accelerate the making of FFII goodies ( T-shirt, pins …. )
weak point : difficulties to understand some words in colloquial english ( like intellectual property, patent attorney or monopoly … it's not a joke ! )
strong points ( main strength ) : determination & availability & spare time & enthusiastic & non-moderate.
favorite quotation :

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

Favorite Linux distribution : Debian
Basic knowledge : GNU/Linux, TeX/Latex, Bash, Smalltalk and Squeak, Php and wikini, Python and mailman.
Basic knowledge : french, english, chinese (3 linguistic trips in China)

email : rmages AT ffii.org
My GnuPG-fingerprint is C9D5 18C7 8973 8190 F94B 48B2 DFCC 0699 2CC4 55D9
- you can get my public key here.
cell : +33 (0) 680 606 496
fax : +33 (0) 494 957 050
postal address :
- FFII France (siege social)
- 636 avenue Marguerite Audoux
- 83700 SAINT-RAPHAEL
- FRANCE
Home coordinates GPS : Latitude N 43.42359° Longitude E 6.78289°