Frederic Culot
I am Frederic Culot, a ports committer since October 16, 2010. This was my introduction email.
My mentors were sahil@ and wen@. They have been very helpful, many thanks to them!
I am now flying solo since February 10, 2011.
On October 23, 2011 I was appointed co-mentor with jadawin@ to assist clement@ during his reintegration into the project.
On January 28, 2012,
after more than 700 commits I finally earned my first pointy hat by
breaking INDEX :'(
I specified an unexisting dependency when importing www/trac-permredirect
(see ports/164377).
As a punishment I wrote a page listing the most common mistakes
committers could do to earn a pointyhat, hoping it could prevent such stupid mistakes.
On June 1, 2012, I started co-mentoring Jase Thew (jase@) with flo@.
October 16, 2012: already two years since my first commit :)
1,157 commits and 690 closed PRs later, I still find it fun so let's see
where we are in two years!
On February 15, 2013, an article I wrote about the organizational structure and the culture we have at FreeBSD was published in BSD Magazine.
On April 4, 2013, I started co-mentoring William Gryzbowski (wg@) with jpaetzel@.
On April 6, 2013, I gave a talk at the Central European BSD-Day
conference which took place in Naples. Here is the summary of my talk:
Business Schools teach you during expensive MBA studies how managers should shape
the structure and influence the culture of organizations so that they become more innovative.
Concepts such as natural systems, self-organization, creative swiping, boundary spanning,
empowerment are known to be helpful in making employees more creative. To save you the trouble
of paying for costly business courses and based on my view as a committer, this talk addresses
the question to know whether or not FreeBSD is the right place to develop innovative ideas.
You can have a look at the slides,
a picture taken during the talk, and a
video should be available soon.
On May 28 and 29, 2013, I managed the FreeBSD booth with some friends at the Solutions Linux exhibition in Paris. I prepared a poster to attract people to our booth.
