On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:02:51PM +0200, Bartek Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > Part (Mateusz Herych) decided to sponsor my TU application. > > My name is Bartłomiej Piotrowski. I live in Szczecin (Poland). I learn > and work here. > > I'm a Linux user since 2005 when I bought Suse 9.3 on 4 CDs. My > hardware was too cheap to run it comfortably, so I gave up. I changed > my computer in 2008, and after a year with Ubuntu and Debian I decided > to install Arch. > > Arch is a perfect distro for me for many reasons - it has clean > dependencies, it's bleeding edge and I don't need to compile anything > (but if I want, it's not a problem). I forgot to mention KISS and the > great community. It's just obvious to me. ;) > > I maintain 21 packages in AUR[1]. Only 3 were submitted by me, and the > rest was orphaned and/or untidy - corrected by me, now they follow > packaging guidelines. Every package has some votes and is tested on my > machines. One of them, mplayer2[2] was taken to [community] by Stéphane > Gaudreault. I was also contributing to it from time to time. > > I'm a coordinator and (the only one) Polish translator of Arch projects > in Transifex[3]. Pacman translation is not ready for the 4.0 release yet, > and I hope it will be done in some time. I had to skip dev/TU specific > strings in my AUR translation - it's hard to translate something > without knowledge about context. > I help people from the Polish community board. When Polish Wiki works > (now it doesn't), I translate small articles. > > I know basics of C, C++ and Perl, but I'm not a programmer. I juggle > between school and sysadmin job in a small hosting[4]/shell[5] company. > (We currently work on the website.) I (co)administer 5 machines, 4 Debian > ones (2x hosting, Nagios, and Xen) and 1 Gentoo one (shell). > > If I become a TU I would be interested in adopting simple-scan and > mpdscribble in > [community]. > > That's all, I hope I mentioned everything. > > Bartek Piotrowski > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&L=2&K=Barthalion > [2] > https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/mplayer2 > [3] https://www.transifex.net/accounts/profile/Barthalion/ > [4] http://host.org.pl/ > [5] http://shell.org.pl/
Thanks for your application. I really only have one question -- what is it you hope to accomplish as a TU? Put differently, why are you applying? I don't really feel that you've answered this question sufficiently in your application. Regards, Dave
