My name is Ludovic Hirlimann, I'm the new QA lead for Mozillamessaging. I started a bit over a week ago. My email is ludovic @ mozillamessaging.com.
I have of course an IRC nickname : _Tsk_. It's the contraction of The softkid, and the underscores were added because Tsk was never free on ircnet back in the days where I was hanging on #atari. The softkid was chosen when I started computing - trying to crack Apple ][ software. At that time one of the games that I had copied had been cracked by The softman from the solex crack band. I just loved the name of the band too much - hence my nickname.
I've been playing, using computers since 1982 - when my dad got an Apple IIe home. I've been using email for 16 years - using my dads account on a unix box. I've owned a few pieces of interesting hardware, and ran Linux, OS/2 and Beos. Beos had a crappy web browser named Netpositive, and Be decided to port Mozilla in 1999. I was only able to run mozilla on Linux and Windows at that time but I did it because I thought that bugs that I would find would benefit the browser as my OS of choice. At some point I got interest in MacOS X - and the browser situation was bad with a special version of IE for the mac - and then I got hocked into Chimera/Camino and the mozilla world.
I have a few interest online - they are available in form of a Foaf file.
My immediate goals are to make sure Thunderbird 3.0 ships as bugfree as possible. My Long term goals are to ensure that the quality of the product does not decrease over time.
Oui - toujours !
Toujours aux Pays-Bas ?
Congrats Ludo! Hope it's even more fun than your previous job!
Good luck :)
I wish you a good job @mozillamessaging