Welcome, I am Eric Charles. I love my family, open source software, sport, music and fun activities.

I have founded U-Mangate in 2001 and successfully drove 10 collaborators serving more than 50 clients. My day-to-day job within U-Mangate is now to develop big-data projects based on Apache James, Hadoop, HBase, Mahout... and push Placestory as a fun service for the crowd.

I sometimes talk on my blog on “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote” (quote from M. Benjamin Franklin).