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As I look over 6 very interesting projects overview on my desk, I’m forced to do a bit of thinking about how the last year went by. A year is a lot of time, and so much plans finally came to fruition that I can’t think of listing them all here today. Which is kinda a good sign for me and my enterprise ;-)
Most of my readers doesn’t really know who I am, even when you take into account that I blog under my real name. Most don’t know that I bought a condo in Hull (now part of Gatineau, near Ottawa – the capital of Canada), that I still have a rent in Montreal, that I proposed to my girlfriend (she said “Yes!”), that I own a dog (greatest experience of forcing a regular schedule I ever had), that my greatest motivation in life is to be able to go where I want, whenever I want. My dream is going back to Yosemite, California… and bring hiking gear.
Another big aspect of my life is my business, Les Laboratoires Phoenix. I’ve been working full time at it for the last 9 months and its been a great experience. Over those months : I’ve worked with clients from 7 countries, contributed to 3 major open source projects, went to the “Free Software Foundation” Libre Planet confrence in Boston, went to the DefCon in Las Vegas, I’ve been named SME for {Zabbix, Zimbra, Asterisk, OpenLDAP, extended LAMP Stack, Mailman, GlusterFS, Lustre, MySQL, Cloud Computing, …}, 3 of my articles have been published (>40K prints), and I’m involved in a book project (from a major publisher)…
And, even thinking about all those achievements, I still look for the future of Les Laboratoires Phoenix. I guess that working with startups influenced me a lot : those 6 projects are all different from each others, they represent good revenue potential (clear business plan) and require low capital input to be started. So, I guess I’ll stop speaking about them and work ;-). Btw, two of those projects would be online services (SAAS) for well known parts of Internet infrastructure (not webserver). Another is a cloud computing infrastructure services based in Montreal (this one if almost finished! & I got an hardware provider)… A lot of fun to be had.
More news to come.
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