Julen Compains is a music educator and performer with seven years of hands-on experience teaching in schools and music conservatories around Pamplona. Trained as an elementary teacher and a professional musician, he combines classroom pedagogy with practical performance skills—working as a saxophonist and music monitor for young children. Beyond teaching, Julen contributes to open-source localization, having translated and updated Spanish and Basque resources for the ReactOS project to improve accessibility for diverse users. He also brings organizational experience from running a grassroots learn-and-teach association, showing a talent for community-driven education and collaborative learning. Curious about technology and media, he blends music, theatre, photography and video into engaging learning experiences.
7 years of coding experience
Elementary Teacher, Elementary Education and Teaching, -, Elementary Teacher, Elementary Education and Teaching, - at Universidad Pública de Navarra
Contributions:135 reviews, 20 PRs, 225 comments in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Julen's contributions primarily involve translating the ReactOS operating system into the Spanish and Basque languages. Their work includes updating and correcting translations for the user setup, various applications, and system components like shell32, syssetup, and the accessibility utility (utilman). The user has also added a full Basque translation for uSetup and updated it, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the project's accessibility for different linguistic users. This work involved modifications to resource files (.rc, .h) across various modules.
Database for the ReactOS Application Manager (rapps)
Contributions:2 releases, 90 pushes, 43 branches in 5 years 2 months
application-managerreactosdatabase
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