Paul Poulain
Gérant CEO at BibLibre
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolPaul Poulain is a veteran open-source software leader and founder with 24 years of experience specializing in library systems and digital documentation. As founder and CEO of BibLibre since 2007 he scales a team of about twenty to support roughly 200 clients and a thousand libraries worldwide, focusing on Koha and other libre tools like Bokeh, Omeka and numaHOP. Deeply embedded in the Koha community, he has served as an international steering member and was a release manager and principal contributor on MARC-related features. His background blends hands-on development, database administration and project leadership across public-sector and nonprofit environments, from national health IT projects to international associations. Based in Marseille, he combines entrepreneurial drive with community stewardship, turning collaborative open-source work into sustainable services for cultural institutions. An often overlooked asset is his sustained commitment to stewardship of both codebases and client relationships, ensuring long-term continuity for library technology deployments.
24 years of coding experience
Ingénieur, informatique, Ingénieur, informatique at Institut supérieur d'Electronique de Paris
English
Github Skills (41)
bug-tracker10
patch10
multicore10
jdownloader10
branches10
backup10
gnu10
reporter9
jasperreports8
church8
upstream8
statistics7
database6
oracle-database6
laravel6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Koha-Community/Koha
May 2002 - Aug 2015
Koha is a free software integrated library system (ILS). Koha is distributed under the GNU GPL version 3 or later. ***Note: this is a synced mirror of the official Koha repo. Note: This project uses its own bug tracker, see https://bugs.koha-community.org/ to report a bug or submit a patch.
Contributions:869 commits in 13 years 5 months
ilspatchreport-tointegrated-library-systemintegrated
biblibre/urungi-data
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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