- Tristan Nitot
Infobox Person
name = Tristan Nitot
caption = Tristan Nitot
birth_date = birth date and age|1966|10|19
birth_place =Suresnes ,France
other_names =
known_for = President ofMozilla Europe
occupation =Tristan Nitot (born on
19 October 1966 , French) is the president ofMozilla Europe .Studies
Tristan Nitot is a graduate of the École Supérieure d’Informatique de Paris (or
SUPINFO , a school for advanced computer studies) in Paris, also known as ESI. He also has a master's degree fromESCP (management studies) in Paris, specialising in Social management of Organisations.Career
After having been the technical manager of a
start-up specializing incomputer security and having worked for PartnerSoft S.A in Paris, he joined theNetscape Communications Corporation where he held various positions from 1997 to 2003, first running Product marketing in Southern Europe and then acting as a Technology Evangelist, managing developer relations in Europe.Tristan Nitot also helped to launch the OpenWeb.eu.org project in 2002, aiming at promoting Web standards and accessibility.
Since January 2004 he has been the founder and chairman of
Mozilla Europe , the international affiliate of theMozilla Foundation , a post he first occupied on a pro bono basis. In May 2005, he became an employee ofMozilla Europe , the European home of theFirefox Web browser.He has been contributing to the project since 2001.
Tristan has been publishing material on the Web since 1996, and started blogging in 2002 on [http://standblog.org standblog.org] fr icon en icon). His blog, mostly dedicated to the promotion of
open source software , reaches an average of 12,000 readers daily.Personal / Hobbies
Tristan is married, and has two children.
His hobbies include vintage motorbike riding,
digital photography , squash, and (formerly)skydiving Links
* [http://www.nitot.com Tristan Nitot's website] fr icon
* [http://www.nitot.com/cv/ Tristan Nitot's CV] en icon
* [http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/about/ Mozilla Europe] en icon
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/nitot Tristan Nitot's LinkedIn profile] en icon
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