My name is Guillaume; I’m a 25-year-old Belgian Free software hacker currently living in Cambridge UK.

This TV is perfectly timed, as my old TV just stopped working 2 weeks ago.

My name is Guillaume; I’m a 25-year-old Belgian Free software hacker currently living in Cambridge UK. I’ve been involved in the Free Software community for more than 5 years now. Most of my contributions have been related to the GNOME desktop; for example, I wrote the Jamendo Rhythmbox plugin.

I’m working for a Free Software company called Collabora. Most of my job is to maintain Empathy, GNOME’s official chat and audio/video client.

As a GNOME enthusiast I’ve been very interested in Moovida since the beginning of the project (when it was still called Elisa). A year ago I moved from Brussels to Cambridge and wanted to continue to watch news from my country. So I started my first Elisa plugin, RTBF, to be able to watch news and listen to Belgian radio stations directly from Elisa. I continue to maintain it and try to support as much content as possible.

I was quite happy with my plugin and have been thinking for a while that it would be cool to be able to access ARTE’s video content as well.

ARTE is a a Franco-German TV network well known for its high-quality documentaries. A few weeks ago, I learned about the plugin contest and decided that it was a good time to get it done. Thanks to my previous experience and the help of the Moovida community, it only took me a few evenings of hacking to get something working.

I’d like to thank all the people who voted for me during the contest and the Moovida community for having created such a great Free media center.

I’m very happy to have won, and hope you enjoy my plugins.

If you experience any issues with them or would like to see more new features, feel free to report bugs, I’m always happy to get feedback from users.

I’m sure I’ll enjoy Moovida even more with my prize, and already have some nice ideas for future plugins.

Stay tuned!

Remember that development contest we announced a while back? It was decided the Moovida community would determine the winners [1], and now has come the time to act.

Here are the contenders:

• Arte [2]
• CNN
• Vimeo
• We Are Hunted

The criteria to help guide your decision should be:

• Functionality: Does it work the way you want it to? If not, make sure to recommend improvements on our Forum, or report the bug
• Value: Do you dig the content and are you likely to use this plugin?

These plugins are now available, so if it’s not already done, install Moovida now and start enjoying the new content!

Vote for your favourite plugin until December 15th, 11:59 pm CET in the poll below.

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Good luck to our participants!

[1] 1st place plugin developer takes home the 1st prize, 2nd place plugin developer gets the 2nd place prize… you get the point

[2] Arte.tv only makes news content available to all, the rest of the content is restricted to France and Germany