Author: Olivier Berger

Updated my homepage using ikiwiki

I have just updated my (to much outdated) professional homepage.

The result is at http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/

Of course it’s not finished, but it’s much more easily updated than the previous site which was handled with docbook website.

Now I’m using the ikiwiki wiki compiler to edit my pages locally, and generate a static content which I upload to the site.

Ikiwiki rules !

phpgroupware-0.9.16 in Debian’s NEW queue… unofficial binary packages available

phpGroupware 0.9.16 entered the NEW queue of Debian.

Meanwhile, interested users may test the packages following instructions at https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Phpgwdeb/Web/WebHome#Packages_availability

As you’ll see, the packages layout has changed a little bit compared to previous package, and not all phpgw apps are in (yet).

Update 20080314 : the package was refused because the (previously existing) copyright files were not precise enough on licenses relating to the program. Another try will follow as soon as I have completed my copyright/licenses review of the package contents (long and painfull 😉

RFS for phpgroupware

I’ve just completed a repackaging of phpGroupware for Debian, so I’m asking for sponsorship by a Debian developer (RFS sent to debian-mentors).

Potential sponsors, see you in FOSDEM tomorrow and sunday, maybe 😉

Update 2008/03/06 : Loïc Dachary generously proposed himself for sponsoring our package. I have updated the package whose source is still at the link above, to correct a few minor bits. Let’s hope it will make a nice journey to Debian NEW now.

Sympa and phpGroupware (soon ?) in Debian testing

Cool. We make progress on the PicoForge (1.1) dependencies in Debian :

  • Sympa was momentarily out of testing, since it had a “grave” bug when trying to install it over PostGreSQL. I found a workaround, I think, so removed the grave status of that bug, and now Sympa is back in testing. We’re still working out a proper fix… but in between I think I found something nasty around debconf and locales… more details later maybe.
  • phpGroupware, may soon come back to Debian. Due to its maintainer MIA, it was removed from Debian (testing and unstable), so we (Christian and myself) motivated to take over the maintenance of the package, and finally filed an ITP. Let’s see if we find sponsors, and how we manage to maintain it (we habe setup a project in PicoForge to do so)… I hope it won’t be too much work, and that the upcoming 0.9.18 will help lower the maintenance efforts.

Now all this is improving, we may concentrate on PicoForge again ? 😉

Conférence sur la contribution dans les projets libre à Brest le 15 février 2008

Je vais intervenir chez nos collègues de TELECOM Bretagne le 15 février 2008 pour parler de la
conduite d’un projet libre basé sur du logiciel libre.

Le teaser des organisateurs annonce :

Olivier, nous parlera plus spécifiquement du projet PicoForge, une
plateforme de développement collaboratif auquel il contribue. Nous lui
demanderons aussi d’aborder la question de la constitution et de
l’animation d’une communauté de développeurs et d’utilisateurs autour
d’un tel projet.

Cette conférence se tiendra dans le cadre de la filière de 3ième année
“Systèmes logiciels et réseaux” et est ouverte à tous.

Venez nombreux 😉

Update 2008/03/11 : les slides, sur slideshare :