Hi, I'm Kevin

I’m a Libre Software Craftsman.

About

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My name is Kevin Ottens and I live in France. In general, I love to learn new things regularly which can be technical or about soft skills. Because of that depending who you talk to, you can get a very different picture:

  • Software Craftsman, since I’m a developer by trade and I like to share new insights on the job with others;
  • Free Software Hacker, since I’m involved in several projects, most notably with KDE;
  • Community Whisperer, since I study communities and help with their stewardship when I can;
  • Graphic Facilitator, since I like to do sketchnotes or help meetings using live scribing or innovation games;
  • Researcher, since I also have an academic background in general and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in particular;
  • Aikidoka, since I’ve been practicing this martial art for years.

But really even in the different facets above, I always feel like there’s more to learn and more progress to be made. In fact I’m just a mere explorer.


If you want more exhaustive and professional information, you can also download my formal resume.


Projects


Latest Post

Aug 29, 2025

Web Review, Week 2025-35

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-35. Open Source is one person Tags: tech, foss, community, maintenance This stays true, most projects are maintained by a single person and that’s a problem. Where is the support from all the businesses benefiting from FOSS? https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/ The World Runs 20 Billion Instances of Curl. Where’s the Support? Tags: tech, foss, maintenance, politics The situation is still complicated for maintainers… And companies benefiting from their free labor don’t get it. Read more

Contact

To get in touch with me you can use email, Mastodon or IRC (‘ervin’ on the freenode network).

When possible I sign my messages using my GPG key ID 8DEC C9E2.

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