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I was born in Versailles (France). I grew up in Grenoble, and have been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona.
I am an engineer in Agronomy (ENSAIA and also holds a DEA in Genetics and biotechnologies (INPL). I have been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasability of polluted soil bioremediation. I am currently employed in a french firm, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. I joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002, first anonymously, then under the pseudonym Anthere.

I am 36, and live in Clermont Ferrand with my husband Bertrand and my two children, Anne-Gaëlle aged six and William eight. I hope to have a third child soon.

To contact me anthere(*at*)wikimedia.org.
English user page :
Page utilisateur en français :

Most recent activities

Board activities are usually very diverse and take variable amount of time. The last issues on which I have been giving most of my attention are

• PixelAche : I will be from the 11-18th of april in Sweden then Finland to present Wikipedia. More information on both presentations is available here
  • (tuesday 12th)
  • (wenesday 13th)
• Yahoo hosting and shortcuts announcement. I participated to the setting up of shortcuts, initiated by Yahoo France in october 2004, and help elaborate the common press release in french, between Wikimedia Foundation and Yahoo (see Press releases/Wikimedia Foundation annonce le soutien de Yahoo!]. I cover press feedback in french speaking countries.
• I initiated the legal mailing list juriwiki-l@wikimedia to foster discussion and most action on legal issues.
• I am the executive editor of Wikimedia Quarto, the newsletter of the Foundation. We recently released last version to which I heavily participated, and currently work on issue number 3.

"Only wimps use tape backup; real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it."—Linus Torvalds (Maybe apocryphal) Dpbsmith (talk) 20:36, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This is not my page; this is a page about me. It is different. As any wiki page, one may freely edit it. I naturally may revert it as well.

Starry eyes

Thought of the month

Et l'harmonie dans tout ça ?
y a un moment où ça me gonfle d'entendre parler de communauté libre et consensuelle pour écarter toute idée de règle. Alors qu'à la base une règle c'est fait pour l'harmonie, pas pour emmerder le monde ... .

Se's a-ster... Dysprosia        

What should I do next ?

• Try to put some order in all my user pages, (hopeless)
• Take a WikiBreak, (hopeless)
• On english:, starting a FAQ for Wikipedia:Mediation, (hopeless)
• Sleep for goodness sake..., (hopeless)
• Work on time organisation !

A professor is holding a time-management course for managers. Without speaking a word, he puts a big glass on the table. The managers look interested. He takes some stones from the floor next to him, and puts them in the glass, until no more will fit.

He asks the audience "Is this glass full?"

"Yes!" they call out in unison.

Then the professor takes a bag of sand from the floor next to him, and pours it in on top of the stones, until the level reaches the brim of the glass.

He asks again "Is this glass full?"

One manager dares to say "...no?"

The professor takes a glass of water, and pours some of it over the stones and sand, until the glass will take no more.

Eventually one of them ventures: "...that we can always fit more appointments into our schedule, even if it seems to be full?"

The professor then says: "If you first put in all the small stones, afterwards you will never get the big stones into the glass. The same is true for the small and the really important things in your life..."

All my pictures are gfdl unless otherwise mentioned. You are welcome to run a bot on all of them to add a gfdl tag on them.