How to portrait and label your own life, that's a very interesting question...

Quim Gil Hoernecke (pronounced like Kim Jill) Here since November 14, 1970 Professional journalist since 1988 Entrepreneur & freelancer since 1995 Mostly teleworking since 1999 Living with wonderful Katja, Quimi and Míkel. Languages: fluent in Spanish (9), Catalan (9) and English (7). Also learned some German (4), French (3), other Latin derivatives (2) and Arabic (0.2). Places: Based in Helsinki < Arcos de la Frontera (05-06) < Köln (02-05) < Backpacking [Latin]America (01-02) < London (99-01) < Barcelona (95-99) < Girona (88-95) < Lloret de Mar (70-88) Also car & bike driver, frequent flier (love trains), non-smoker, occasional I Ching and Tarot reader, universal donor (0+).

Currently focused in books, desktop, free software, GNOME, gnome.org, GUADEC, screencast (+). Professional work: Role: Development platform product manager at Nokia Publish - Iniciació al Programari Lliure, 140p (jul06) Manage - GUADEC 2006 coordination (dec05-jul06) Talk - Dreaming the Really User Centered Desktop (jun06) Contribute - The Official Ubuntu Book (mar06) Talk - Software libre en un mundo libre (feb06 & jun06) Debate - eGovernement and eDemocracy (may06) Training - Free Software and Professional Profiles (may06) Publish - Iniciación al Software Libre. Guadalinex V3, 304p (Oct05-Jan06) Volunteering: - www.gnome.org redesign coordination (jul06-) - GNOME Foundation board of directors (jun06-) More:

Roles

Active roles: Free Software Misc (2003-now) / Online Communities Misc (1996-now?) / Web Projects Manager (1995-now?) / Journalist Wide-sense (1988-now?).

Past core activities: Online Journalism Specialist (1996-2003) / Online Activism Misc (2001-2003) / Information Architect (2000-2001) / Consultant and Trainer of Internet topics (1998-2001) / Journalist Strict-sense (1988- 1995) / Bank Assistant (1987-88).

Even if I'm not a commercial / sales man, producing projects in order to get clients has been part of my job over a decade.

Projects / Clients

To be expanded.

• 2006 freelancer: Secretariat for Telecommunications and the Information Society of the Catalan government (GUADEC), EditLin (2 books introducing free software).
• 2003-2005 interactors co-founder: SADESI - Junta de Andalucía (Guadalinex V3), Canonical (Ubuntu in Spain), STSI (lafarga.cat), London Borough of Greenwich (European Certificate of Community Enterprise)
• 2001-2002 nomadic: net-activism and online journalism not-for-profit projects: Otra Democracia Es Posible, Desde América con Amor, espiral.
• 1999-2001 London years : Metamute (Mute), Vodafone.co.uk (NCCo), Online Journalism Post-graduate (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya).
• 1995-1999 PutPut co-founder: coordinating dozens of web projects since the early WWW years, to be expanded.
• 1988-1995 journalist: first real job, hundreds of articles published at El Punt (in Catalan), including, interviews, trips, pictures and other types of press coverage. To be expanded, perhaps.