Software

I have always liked free/open-source software and from time to time, I contribute to some of the software that I use. Some of the software that I have developed or contributed to for work is also open-source.

Currently I am working for:

• Freexian developing Debusine. A distributed build system focused on Debian packages (open-source).

Free and open-source software that I have authored and use daily:

• Kamus dictionary: a prototype that I've been preparing to use Wiktionary translations in an easier way.
• github-action-push-to-another-repository, with extensive docs. Used to push data from a source repository to a destination repository.
• qdacco: Catalan-English dictionary. Implemented in C++/Qt. Available on Debian, Ubuntu. Production ready.
• qnetload: network bandwidth monitor for the desktop. It started as a replacement of xnetload when xnetload was not maintained and nowadays it has some more features. Implemented in C++/Qt. Production ready.
• radio-pi: it started as a small Python3/Qt program to listen to internet radio stations using a Raspberry pi using a remote, small TFT screen and speadkers. Nowadays we don't use it for the Raspberry pi but I use it almost daily on the computer. Good for hacking.

Free and open-source software that I have contributed to for fun:

• Small contributions to Django, django-crispy-forms. I hope that in the future I will be able to contribute again.
• Grub2: I added gettext support (my favourite contribution) and some other small improvements (2009-2010).
• I contributed (many of these before 2010) with small features or bugfixes to Pydance, pidgin, Amarok, gnokii, geeqie, xdiskusage

Free and open-source software that I have created or collaborated on as part of work assignments:

• Citation Style Language: my main contribution was adding all of the Elsevier standard styles as dependent styles
• citeproc-js: Mendeley Desktop was one of the first applications to integrate citeproc-js. I wrote unit tests for, reported bugs and gave feedback to citeproc-js during the first releases
• Chronojump importer: a tool which is part of Chronojump, used to import sessions from different SQLite files
• A variety of applications for the Swiss Polar Institute: SPI Media Gallery, Project Application. For Arctic/Antarctic expeditions: science-cruise-data-management

I am a big fan of OpenStreetMap. I wrote part of the backend of a mobile app to find Benches.

During my 10 years of employment at Mendeley I was part of the team of Mendeley Desktop (not open-source).