Quim Gil

Current

• Development platform product manager at Nokia
• Member of the Board of Directors at GNOME Foundation

Past

• Author at Edit Lin
• GUADEC 2006 coordinator at GNOME
• Author at Edit Lin

• cooperative co-founder at interactors.coop
• Reporter at Desde América, con amor (Self-employed)
• Information architect at Mute
• Online teacher at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• Information architect at NCCo
• Coordinator and teacher at Barcelona Activa
• Co-founder and project manager at PutPut
• Journalist at El Punt

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Education

• Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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Industry

Online Media

Websites

• My Blog
• Maemo
• Guías Ubuntu

Quim Gil’s Summary

Entrepreneur and freelancer focusing in free software, online communities and the Internet. Large experience coordinating web projects. Journalist and author of two books introducing free software. Founder of 2 companies, working regularly with clients and budgets. Also experienced in training and conferences (as speaker and organizer).

Quim Gil’s Specialties:

Make things happen. Brainstorming & planning, project specifications, team coordination, testing, writing. Can I add chaos management?

Quim Gil’s Experience

• Development platform product manager

  Nokia

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — Present (3 years )

  Making the Maemo development platform rock. Member of Nokia Multimedia / Open Source Software Operations team.

• Member of the Board of Directors

  GNOME Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  June 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  Coordination of www.gnome.org, focusing in marketing and events. This is an elected position based on volunteering work, not a paid job.

• Author

  Edit Lin

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Printing industry)

  July 2006 — August 2006 (2 months)

  Writer of the book "Iniciació al programari lliure", an introduction to the main free software tools available in several operative systems including GNU/Linux, MS Windows and Mac OS X: Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim, OpenOffice.org, GIMP and Inkscape. Some concepts and advice about free software and the community using and developing it are also provided. The book is in Catalanaand has 140 pages in full color. 15.000 copies are being printed in the first edition, that will be distributed by the Council of Rubí in this Catalan city. The content is available online at http://guias-ubuntu.ourproject.org/

• GUADEC 2006 coordinator

  GNOME

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  December 2005 — July 2006 (8 months)

  I'm not being hired directly by GNOME but by the Catalan Governement (Generalitat de Catalunya), that supports GUADEC 2006, the GNOME meeting being held at Vilanova i la Geltrú (Catalonia - Spain). More at http://guadec.org and http://gnome.org

• Author

  Edit Lin

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Printing industry)

  October 2005 — February 2006 (5 months)

  Writer of the book "Iniciación al software libre - Guadalinex V3", an introduction to free software and based on Guadalinex, a GNU/Linux distrubution derived from Ubuntu. The main client of this book was the government of Andalusia (Spain) and it is being sold as well in bookshops. The book is in Spanish and has 302 pages in full color. 5.500 copies have been printed in its first edition. The content is available online at http://guias-ubuntu.ourproject.org/

• cooperative co-founder

  interactors.coop

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 2003 — November 2005 (2 years 2 months)

  Company co-founder, business strategy, project definition and management, web content. Working with free software web tools like Drupal and GForge and software for GNU/Linux (primarly Ubuntu). Main clients: SADESI - Junta de Andalucía (Guadalinex V3), Canonical (Ubuntu in Spain), STSI (lafarga.cat), London Borough of Greenwich (European Certificate of Community Enterprise)

• Reporter

  Desde América, con amor (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

  September 2001 — June 2002 (10 months)

  * A chain of 23 interviews, starting in San Jose (California) and finishing in San José (Costa Rica).
  * 300 days and 8.000 km backpacking and writing at local cybercafes.
  * Sustainable thanks from donations (ok, and some savings).
  * Won the Best News Story prize at the 2001 European Online Journalism Awards.
  * More: http://desdeamericaconamor.org/blog/desdeamerica

• Information architect

  Mute

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 2001 — July 2001 (7 months)

  London based printed magazine focusing on 'Culture and politics after the Net', with a secondary website since 1995. I worked in the redesign of their business strategy. The goal was to have an online community as centerpoint of their activity (Metamute) while keeping the production of the cult magazine Mute.

• Online teacher

  Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; E-Learning industry)

  June 1999 — July 2001 (2 years 2 months)

  - Writing and updating learning materials of two modules of the Online Journalism Postgraduate: Information Society and Online Projects Management.
  - Supporting and evaluating the students in these two modules during the two first editions of the postgraduate.
  - Supporting and evaluating the students of the Information Society module at the regular Documentation studies.
  - Supporting and evaluating the students of the Online Projects Management module during two editions of the Summer studies.

• Information architect

  NCCo

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2000 — October 2000 (8 months)

  Planning of the structure and organization of vodafone.co.uk, reporting to the product manager and taking part in the coordination of the development team.

• Coordinator and teacher

  Barcelona Activa

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

  December 1998 — June 1999 (7 months)

  Coordination of a team of 10 teachers in an intensive professional training course (20h/week) focusing on Internet & new media skills for 100 youngsters looking for their first job. The course was known as Casa d'Oficis Ciutat del Coneixement and it was promoted by Barcelona Activa, a public company own by the Council of Barcelona.

• Co-founder and project manager

  PutPut

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 1995 — June 1999 (3 years 11 months)

  Starting up one of the first web agencies of Spain. Coordination of dozens of web projects since the early years of the WWW until the beginning of the bubble burst. I left the company looking for new horizons. They are still active at http://putput.es

• Journalist

  El Punt

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)

  January 1989 — July 1995 (6 years 7 months)

  First real job. Hundreds of articles published (in Catalan), mainly about sports, also society and international politics. Interviews, trips, pictures and other types of press coverage, including the Barcelona'92 Olimpic Games, one Rally Paris-Dakar and pre/post war scenarios at Kosovo/Serbia, Kurdistan/Irak and Western Sahara.

Quim Gil’s Education

• Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

  Communication Sciences - Journalism speciality 1988 — 1995

Additional Information

Quim Gil’s Websites:

• My Blog
• Maemo
• Guías Ubuntu

Quim Gil’s Interests:

freedom + online + media + software + communities

Quim Gil’s Groups:

GNOME Foundation

•    maemo.org

Quim Gil’s Honors:

- 2002: "Best News Story" in the European Online Journalism Awards for "Desde América, con amor"
- 2001: Best editor of the category International in the Open Directory Project (dmoz.org)

Quim Gil’s Contact Settings

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