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Subject:    If you need some French brain :-)
From:       "SIMON Cle'ment (SQY)" <SIMON () sqy ! sema ! fr>
Date:       1999-03-30 9:34:00
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Hi there,

No no... I'm not referring to our tasteless french cuisine...

Anyway, a quick introduction... My name's Clement SIMON, 24 years old,   
and I'm french. I'm a computing science engineer at SEMA GROUP Telecom.   
I'm running Redhat Linux at home and I've downloaded KDE and about to   
download KOffice (or pieces of it anyway). Since I'm just a beginner, all   
I know (that could be of interest in this project) is C, C++, Perl and   
all your run-of-the-mill WWW stuff (HTML, Dynamic HTML, Javascript,   
CGI)...

After taking the time to lurk around a little bit, I have to say that I'm   
impressed ! Seriously... And along with my full support, I'll offer you   
my (free) help, if you want it. :-)

I'm afraid I've already got my hands full at work, so I can't be much   
help as a developer right now. In the meantime, I'll be glad to help you   
if you got some translation work to do. I speak english fluently (633 at   
TOEFL, several trips to UK, USA and Canada) and I've already performed   
some translation work. In 1997, I translated chapter 11 from "The Design   
and Implementation of 4.4BSD" from English to French. I wasn't supposed   
to do this, it was just to help someone (my brother, in fact) who was a   
little bit behind schedule... :-)

If you'd like to know my motivation for helping you... Let's say that I   
generally oppose everything Micro$oft-ish (even if we use it at work...)   
and, if given the opportunity to use something else than MS Office,   
something better, that doesn't crash, that doesn't hog your 64 Megs of   
RAM, that doesn't yadda yadda... (I think you'll get my point)... If that   
opportunity presents itself, then I'll be glad to give a hand....

Furthermore, I'm also a strong advocate of free software, and for a free   
WWW in general. I know this is a lot of work for you all, and you'll need   
all the help you can get. People providing free software to the world   
should be considered as mankind benefactors. I know it's a lot of work...   
I know it can be ungrateful work, but I believe that, in the end,   
everybody gets his due.

And what more ? Oh yeah... It can be fun too... What would be benevolous   
work if you didn't have fun now and then ? ;-)

Ok, enough rambling... Contact me if you're interested...

Sincerely,
  Clement

PS : Alternatively, you can contact me at simoncl@club-internet.fr, which   
is my e-mail at home.  

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