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Name	Xavier Borderie
About Me	French. Born in April 1977. Lives in Paris, France. By day: Head of Tech Content at PayFit, working in the Engineering team. Previously working at JDNet, Netvibes, PrestaShop, Sigfox. By night… * French WordPress translator since Day 1 (roughly v1.2), to this day. * Co-founder of the WordPress-Francophone non-profit, and president/head-decider from 2008 to 2015. * Lead organizer of 4 WordPress barcamps and 4 WordCamps so far (all in Paris). Consigliere for WordCamp Paris 2016. * Member of the organization team of WordCamp Europe 2013, 2014, and 2017. * Representative for the French community at the Community Summit 2012 & 2014. * Co-writer of 3 editions of the first and main French WordPress book, published by Pearson. All around nice guy. Update in 2020: * Husband since 2016! * Father since 2018! * I’m much less active these days, but still watching!
Website URL	http://xavier.borderie.net/
Current Location	Paris, France
WordPress Origin Story	The year was 2004. I had been using pMachine on my 1&1 host, and it was starting to crumble, getting in the way of my already feeble blogging. WordPress seemed nice, version 1.2 was making waves in the blogosphere (hello Mark Pilgrim!), and a developer (who turned out to be b2 creator and WP developer Michel Valdrighi, and later a friend) was looking for testers for his pMachine-to-WordPress importer. Gave it a try, it worked well enough, I have never looked back since then. I dove into its translation right then as I saw a need, first on the wiki then on Launchpad when v1.5 and gettext came, then on the Automattic Subversion server, then Rosetta sites, etc. French questions were getting asked on the wp.org forums, but were not welcome as-is (“English, please!”). In August 2005, a couple of guys in France decided to create a forum for francophones, then a full site, and asked me to be part of it. When the time came to run the money for our barcamps (2008), we decided to turn our informal gathering into a proper non-profit, and I’ve been its president since these first days (until late 2015), and lead-organizer of 4 WordPress barcamps and 4 WordCamps.