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

Apr 25, 2025

Web Review, Week 2025-17

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-17. Privacy is power Tags: tech, privacy, philosophy, politics Reminder of why privacy matter and why we shouldn’t collectively give in to the data vultures. https://aeon.co/essays/privacy-matters-because-it-empowers-us-all Librarians are dangerous Tags: book, culture, learning Very nice praise to an underrated and underpaid job. Can we have more librarians please? https://bradmontague.substack.com/p/librarians-are-dangerous I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice and received the GPLv3 license Tags: tech, licensing, foss, funny 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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