My name is Bertrand Guihéneuf (*), I live in Paris, France.
You can reach me at guiheneuf Carot gmail Potato com. If you did not guess by yourself, replace the first vegetable by “@”, and the second one by “.”
Some things I did so far:
Apple
I worked at Apple, in the group Jean-Marie Hullot has created in Paris. He hired me in 2001 to write a calendar application for the Mac. Together with Sébastien Maury, Olivier Gutknecht, and Manuel Colom, we started the development of iCal in September 2001. iCal 1.0 was presented at Mac World New-York the 17th of July 2001, 10 months after the development started.
I managed the iCal team until February 2004, when I took over iSync management. We shipped iSync 2.0 with Tiger in April 2005.
To be honest, though, iSync was only a small part of my job since 2004. Most of my time was taken by things I unfortunately can’t talk about for the moment.
I left Apple in January 2006. Working from France on “sensitive” consumer products was just not possible anymore.
Henzai
Along with Manuel Colom and David Turner (of Freetype fame), we started a company named Henzai in May 2000.
Our goal was to provide a Graphical User Environment for phones on top of Embedded Linux. We wrote a version of Gtk drawing directly to Linux framebuffer, supporting anti-aliasing and transparency. We also ported an OpenSource flash player.
Productivity applications were written using Gtk. Multimedia applications were written using a mix of Gtk and flash.
By the end of 2000, we had a great prototype running on the iPaq.
Productivity applications were written using Gtk. Multimedia applications were written using a mix of Gtk and flash.
By the end of 2000, we had a great prototype running on the iPaq.
At that time, there was no linux phone though, and french investors were kind of shy.
We ran out of money in 2001.
We ran out of money in 2001.
Evolution
I started Evolution, a PIM application for linux. Or at least says so my friend Nat Friedman. The actual reality is a bit different. I indeed started writing a mail application for Gnome in early 1999, starting with the mail handling library (named camel). I had named the application e-volution (like in e-mail), but Miguel conviced me Evolution (without the “-”) would be better.
Helixcode (now Ximian, bought by Novell in 2003), bought me the copyright for Evolution in December 1999, and I started working for them.
I realized Helixcode wanted Evolution to be a clone of Microsoft Outlook, which probably made sense. But I did not like MS Outlook and thought we could try to do better (something like iCal for instance ;) ), so I left Helixcode in April 2000.
I realized Helixcode wanted Evolution to be a clone of Microsoft Outlook, which probably made sense. But I did not like MS Outlook and thought we could try to do better (something like iCal for instance ;) ), so I left Helixcode in April 2000.
Evolution as it stands now has very little to do with the embryonic mail client I started in 1999 and all the credit for Evolution goes to Ximian team, not me.
About Me
(*) My last name is pronounced “Ghee-enough”