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Dear SteemIt reader 👋,

I'm Vincent, a #WebDeveloper based mostly in Europe 🇪🇺, working for the Open source world, and still discovering about the Steem and SteemIt ecosystem.

Introducing Vincent on SteemIt

I say based mostly in Europe as I cannot localize myself more precisely.
My lifestyle is called Digital Nomad 🌎.
That means that I live footloose since 2013 and I travel with my backpack and my office (ok, I'm talking about some 13" laptop sticking with me constantly…) all around, buying one-way tickets.

On top of French, my numerous travels give me the opportunity to practice English (duh!), sometimes Italian, to pretend I speak Spanish, to get my ear accustomed to Arabic (which I'm trying to learn), and eventually some day Swedish? I used to badly speak Sign Language (FR) 👐 but that's as tricky as interesting (and trust me that's interesting!). I had Dutch back in the days but it evaporated 🛰.

Through my work I daily practice languages like #Python and #JavaScript. Occasionnally I would go into more diverse languages like Ruby, ELM, Rust, Julia,…
I advocate Best Practices, future-proof over retro-compatibility, and minimalism in the code and in my life.
But let's not get too technical here! 🤓

How I've been introduced to Steem(It)

My trips led me to Vienna 🇦🇹 in April 2018.
There I met members of the network including @jnmarteau, @manncpt, @mammasitta and also the communities of @silkroad40, @globalschool, @opt2o.
I even had the chance to participate to the anniversary 🎂 of #steemit-austria and meet @vienarch, @geix, @sciencevienna, @smartcoins (and discovered the existance of @austroboost), and many others nice members that I cannot list here.

SteemIt Austria anniversary

That is a very prosper environment for discovering about the community, isn't it?

Many topics in perspective

While being here I will write about various topics: technical stuff about #WebDevelopment, traveling subjects with #nomadism, thoughts that are helpful for me to share and collect feedbacks, #privacy and #security online.
Other topics will be covered over time.

Projects on the run, and Neomad

A cooperative for long-term work

I co-founded Scopyleft in 2012, a cooperative company involved into Web-Development and team collaboration.
Our aim is to develop citizen projects, working shoulder to shoulder with our clients.

We also invest ourselves in side projects and Nonprofits such as Anthropedia for well-being and Library Without Borders for education.

Neomad, the Digital Nomad's community

Last year I initiated an ambitious project called Neomad (@neomad).
We are now a small team of volunteers with @fuentesloic (🙌) and others spread around USA🇺🇸, Canada🇨🇦, Iceland🇮🇸, France🇫🇷, and some unlocalizable locations (you know, nomads…).
The small team is contributing to Neomad as an open source project whenever time permits!
All help is highly appreciated to get the project going further. 🙏

Other projects

Currently, some projects I'm involved in include: organizing workshops for people willing to experiment nomadism 🏕 and for developers needing to update their knowledge ㉆, transforming homes into collaborative spaces 🤝, testing new forms of education and learning 🎓, getting involved into local moneys 💸 (you know, the non-digital non-crypto old kind of currencies), creating optimized traveler accessories 🎒, building the faster Python web-server (Yes, it is 🚀!), getting homeless participating into social work ⛑, and much much more are in progress.

There is a lot to do and little time per day.
However, getting people collaborating empowers creativity thus feasibility.

Knowing more

You probably had enough. However, if you came to be over-curious 🧐 of what I work on and you are willing to exchange about it, you may find my code on GitHub.
If you're more into the #DigitalNomad aspect, my profile on Neomad will tell you more.

Other links are a global personal introduction, a technical blog, and my Twitter.