I wasn’t quite polite. I made my first post published on Planet KDE without making the traditional “who am I post” ;). Sorry about that, so there is it.

So my name is Michaël Larouche (ok that’s was easy to guess :P), I’m 19 year old and I’m living in Sept-Iles(Moisie sector), Quebec, Canada. My nickname on IRC is DarkShock. I’m getting a “DEC” (Collegial Study Diploma) in Computer Science (IT), next I’m planning going to University in Computer Science. I’m been programming various languages since I’m 15 year old. I have made several small projects in C, C++ before moving to C# with a big project(a IRC client). During that time, I have a small Mandrake linux install with KDE of course. My main reason because I wasn’t using Linux full time was because of my winmodem(damn those crap piece of hardware). Yep I’m (still) stuck on dialup because the DSL and Cable provider doesn’t offer their service in the part of my city. Some day I buy a external 56k modem, and I’m using Linux full time since :). I’m using Gentoo Linux AMD64 now btw.

One day in May 2005, I have seen a journal post on Da Linux French Page about Kopete seeking for new developpers. I always wanted to be a part of KDE project and that was my chance :). Before, I have many trial with Qt and KDE in C++. After 3-4 months, I’m now a Kopete developer. I have worked on the global identity stuff. We sync the MSN plugin with MSN 7 features both I and Gregg Edghill(CodingSlave). Also, I hacked on Jabber, plugins and core stuff. See my SVN status at CIA.

The future
What coming next for my involvement in KDE ?

-A “secret” project I’ll talk about it in a next blog post. I have this application idea since 2004. It’s still on prototype stage with 2-3 directory with trys and mockup. It’s related to emulation(gaming), that’s the only thing I can tell for now

-More Kopete development of course Of course the KDE4 porting/rewrite but also planning to hack on libkopete and Jabber plugin.

-Help to KDE apidox, tutorials and book (a promise to ade(Adriaan de Groot) :))

-I’m thinking maybe hack on kdelibs4 on randoms areas like UI, IO, Network, and for sure the new database module(database access is a core part for my “secret” project).

-and other things that I will hack wandering around all KDE

But still I need to juggle time around school, social life and KDE hacking

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