Charly C.
@Changaco
Founder of Liberapay
Statement
Hi, I'm Charly. I create, improve, and maintain free software (and other commons). To fund this work I have chosen to rely on the direct support of the community.
My first goal was to receive around €500 per month. My next goal is to cross the €1000 threshold in order to get close to the minimum wage of my country (France).
Below is a summary of my work.
Free software and Open Data
I am the creator of Liberapay, the website you're on right now, and before that I had contributed a lot to its predecessor (Gittip/Gratipay).
I maintain several other free software projects, mostly written in Python, you can see them on my GitHub account.
I'm also interested in OpenData. I've been working on legi.py since the database of French laws was released as open data in 2014. One of the things my code does is generate lists of anomalies in the data, to encourage the maintainers to correct them. Since December 2016 the lists are published on anomalies.legilibre.fr.
I'm an ArchLinux user, throughout the years I've added some packages to the AUR, contributed to the wiki, and a long time ago I wrote the original implementation of the -Qk
command for pacman
.
I'm also thinking about creating a new programming language (relatively close to Python but with the changes necessary to allow full static typing, fast compilation, and good run-time performance).
Knowledge sharing
I occasionally post on social media and contribute to Wikipedia to share some of the knowledge I've accumulated over the years on various topics.
Linked Accounts
Changaco owns the following accounts on other platforms:
Repositories
python-libarchive-c 57 Updated 3 months ago
Python interface to libarchive
version.py 99 Updated 4 months ago
Automatic version numbers for git-based python projects
unicode-progress-bars 106 Updated 3 years ago
A generator of Unicode progress bars
psycopg2-pool 4 Updated 3 years ago
Proper pooling of psycopg2 connections
gitit-bootstrap 23 Updated 6 years ago
A gitit theme based on Bootstrap
python-etherpad_lite 16 Updated 6 years ago
Python interface for Etherpad-Lite's HTTP API
nosudo 7 Updated 6 years ago
A small bash script that fakes sudo using su
xmpputils 4 Updated 7 years ago
Two XMPP utils: echobot and sendxmpp
feed-push 1 Updated 9 years ago
A daemon that watches local RSS/Atom files for changes
Teams
Changaco is a member of 2 teams:
Communities
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Archlinux
with 40 others
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Python
with 140 others
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Free Software
with 671 others
History
Changaco joined 6 years ago.