He has been active in the Open Source community since 1993, mainly in French Linux non-profit organisations. His interest for Jabber goes back to 2000, when he was working for a company developing a clustering and scalability layer around jabberd. Since then, he has been involved in Jabber and Erlang activities. He has worked on an XML-based EAI (Enterprise Application Integration platform), that is nowadays known as J-EAI (XMPP based integration platform).