On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Evangelos Foutras <evange...@foutrelis.com>wrote:
> On 03/09/11 19:13, Alexander Rødseth wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My name is Alexander Rødseth. I'm from Oslo, Norway, am 29 years old > > for two more months and have been using Arch for a couple of years. > > > > My first taste of Linux was a brief acquaintance with Red Hat over a > > decade ago, followed by Slackware and then Debian for a few years. Now > > I use Arch Linux both at home and at work, and it's my absolute > > favorite so far. > > > > My 62 AUR packages [1] have a total of 2519 votes, where 32% of the > > votes are for packages I submitted, while the rest are for previously > > orphaned packages, that needed a warm and caring home. > > > > I like how Arch tries to avoid fixing things behind your back, which I > > think is evident from the installation process, the package manager > > and the love for simplicity I've found in Arch users and developers > > alike. > > > > I enjoy programming in Go, Haskell, Python and C, try to contribute to > > open source projects with bug reports and the occasional patch (here > > is one for Blender [2] and one for Firefox [3]). When I was younger, I > > wrote a program for drawing icons and animating sprites. [4] I have a > > wacky homepage where I experiment with HTML5 and upload small CLI > > programs as I see fit. [5] > > > > I'm currently employed in Hue AS [6], a company that (roughly > > explained) sells a software engine for converting sound to > > 3D-graphics. I mainly work with developing and maintaining the > > internal systems for keeping track of licenses, builds and issues with > > the code (mostly written in Python). Luckily, I only program a minimum > > of C++. ;) > > > > I started working with programming before studying computer science, > > and I am on a lifelong track of continuing to learn stuff on my own. > > > > At least one of my AUR packages has been moved to [community] > > (lib32-libasyncns, moved by Jan Steffens in 2010, only have the e-mail > > as reference) and I've contributed to at least one package in [extra] > > [7]. > > > > I hang out and answer questions on #archlinux as often as I can. > > > > My goal with becoming a TU is first and foremost to help out with > > maintaining packages for the distro that I love and use. > > > > If I can find a bug to fix or a feature to add to pacman, or any other > > arch-centric application, I would like to do so. (Could an option for > > pacman to list all system-files that are not owned by a package be > > something?) > > > > I am grumpy before the first cup of coffee in the morning, other than > > that I'm generally happy, helpful and benevolent. I try to get a > > minimum of exercise and I'm in a stable relationship. I like the game > > of Go and creating music with jack, MIDI-synths and Arch, of course. > > > > Evangelos Foutras was kind enough to sponsor me for applying to become a > TU. > > Indeed, and I'm happy to sponsor this fine candidate. > > Let the discussion period begin. :) > Awesome application, awesome involvement, awesome everything! I can't really find anything I would like to discuss that hasn't been answered in the application already. P.S. I just noticed the last TU application was almost 6 months ago