This is a summary of the AM Report for Week Ending 07 Sep 2003. 11 applicants became maintainers.
Juan Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Juan has been using Debian for 3 years, after switching over from Slackware. He enjoys the free software model as it gives him many opportunities and he likes to contribute to this model. He likes FreeBSD and OpenBSD too, but these are free software with a semi cathedral model, and he likes the bazaar! He has studied Systems Engineering and Computer Science. He has worked as a Linux system administrator (from January 2000 to June 2000) at Ada Sistemas Computadores, and later joined an ISP named GeoNet (www.geo.net.co). He has worked there for a year as a Linux/OpenBSD system administrator and web developer in PHP and J2EE technologies (July 2000 to May 2001). He has also established a company to support free software in the education field. He lives in Envigado, near Medellin, capital of Antioquia, which he believes is the best department of Colombia. He is also interested in the Hurd. Juan maintains ipsc, prips, and is a co-maintainer of valgrind. Tore Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tore is a 21 year old living in Oslo, Norway. He works for linpro, where he does system administration work. He has been using Debian for a few years now, and wanted to give back to the community. He wants to make contributions that other people will find useful, even if they are not major or revolutionary. Tore maintains ahcd, beneath-a-steel-sky, lrrd, lvs-kiss, scummvm, and xfonts-ay. Sam Clegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sam maintains xmms-sad. Juan Manuel Garcia Molina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Juan Manuel maintains cdlabelgen, facturalux, gkrellm-snmp, gkrellmitime, pose, and pose-skins. Robert Jordens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm 20 years old and living in Zürich, Switzerland. My experience with Linux resp. Debian started in 1997 at my school in Bonn, Germany (Collegium Josephinum Bonn, http://cojobo.bonn.de) when I got in touch with the network there. I became an admin in 1999 and took care of the different servers: the standard success story of Linux. I graduated in June. Through my school I got in contact with ID-PRO, a then prospering Linux-company. I started SchmaL, a project to bring German schools and students together to propagate Linux. The project had a very promising start but then died with ID-PROs unfortunate financial death in the recent "burst of the internet-bubble". Now I'm studying physics at the ETH here in Zürich. I'm using Debian very intensively with my own computers and now want to spend my spare time doing something productive. I think developing for Debian is the right thing to do, apart from the cool email address. ;-] Robert maintains aconnectgui, alsamixergui, ardour, gnuift, jamin, libgtk-canvas, liblrdf, libtunepimp, remstats, and xmms-ladspa Sebastian Ley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My name is Sebastian Ley and I am a 25 year old student of computer science from Aachen, Germany. I use Linux as my operating system for three years now, and chose debian, because it offered me what I was missing from other OSes or Linux Distributions: A transparent view of my computer from the top to the bottom. While using the huge pile of software I did not have to pay a penny for, I naturally found bugs or wished that the software behaved different. After digging deeper in some details, I found out how much work it is to create and maintain all these programs. I also found out that participation is not too difficult and that it is a great way to give something back to the community while at the same time improving the software I use everyday. My first idea was to support the debian-desktop project. From there I got to the debian-installer people where I currently try to help. I focused on the gtk-frontend for cdebconf which proceeds nicely. Furthermore I help them with filing bugs or help hunting them. Sebastian maintains wmcliphist Francois Marier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Francois is a computer science student at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He has been following the free software movement for the past 4-5 years. While he has been mostly helping others with installation issues for Debian, he also spent time promoting the free software movement. He wants to be more actively involved in debian by maintaining a few packages. He also has written some utilities himself which he wants to debianize later on. Francois maintains dopewars and propaganda-debian Jack Moffitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I was using Linux in college and with a friend decided to write Icecast, a streaming media server. We decided to make it open source because it seemed like a fun thing to do. After the success of that project, I was hooked on open source forever. I've been using Linux for about 6-7 years, and for about the last 3 years, pretty much exclusively. I switched to Debian a few years back, and fell in love with apt and dpkg. I am involved in several free software projects. Most notably, I help run Xiph.org which produces open multimedia standards and implementations (such as Ogg Vorbis, Icecast, and others). I'm also involved with initd.org where I help write Eva (a new versioning system), and I have submitted patches and help to a number of other projects over the years. I would like to help Debian in several ways. First, I have packaged ipython which is already in Debian, and I hope to help package more new things. I'm sure that several of these will be future Xiph.org tools. I will also assist Tor and Ralph in packaging Ghostscript which I am also quite involved with. Secondly, I hope to get more involved with Debian in general, having been just a user for a number of years. I plan to get more active in testing and bug reporting, and I will probably pick up an orphaned package or two as time goes on. I already thought about picking up gadfly, but it seemed that someone already adopted it. I've already been helping to bring the old icecast packages in Debian into compliance, and just had a new icecast-client package uploaded by my sponsor a few weeks ago. Jack maintains ipython and positron Arnaud Quette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux user for 7 years now, I'm a Unix lover and found GNU/Linux was really what I was seeking : powerful, reliable, cute, and most of all FREE... thus perfect (or nearby ;-) I've made a step in the community in 1998 by becoming member of the desk of Guilde (French LUG (www.guilde.asso.fr) with some members like Daniel Veillard from the Gnome Foundation and Gnumeric) and organising small expositions (max 800 visitors) and other events... In June 2001, I've been offered a great professional (and personal) opportunity : becoming responsible of Unix/Linux developments for MGE UPS SYSTEMS (www.mgeups.com). Having a look at UPS management under Linux, I found a great lack, except a GPL project really promising : Network UPS Tools (www.exploits.org/nut). I qualify it as "NUT is to UPS what SANE is to scanners : a must" ;-) Finally, I'm the author of a client dockapp for NUT (wmnut.tuxfamily.org) already debianized by Luca Filipozzi ; and also author of a Gnome applet for NUT (Nutstat applet). I've not yet released this last as I've just finished it, and just started debianization. I've also some more projects in the foundry ;-) Of course, all that work is GPLed which guarantee that all my work will benefits to everyone. Arnaud maintains knutclient, wmnut and co-maintains nut. Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jens is a postdoc in Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen (DIKU). He is also the upstream of cmix. Jens Peter maintains changetrack, ifile, libfile-ncopy-perl, and sml-mode. Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Computers came into my life 15 years ago. In 1998, Debian became my first Debian distribution. Since I installed it completely over a telephone line (!), inbetween I also used the common commercial "CD distros" of the known vendors. But after fiddling around with the different techniques and philosophies of the distributions I completely got back and run Debian on 7 machines at home now. From 2000 to 2001 I worked at a transatlantic biotechnology corporation in Berlin administrating 10 servers and over 50 Linux (computer scientist's) boxes all running potato and woody. Currently I'm studying Computer Science at Humboldt University in Berlin. More related to Debian, I intend to be a good packager. Although I was thinking that it's a good idea to "support" the unofficial integration of non-DFSG-compliant software (contrib and non-free) in order to help people with the transition to completely free systems in the sense of DFSG, one of the things of Debian I like most is the unrivaled materialization it embodies by working towards a completely free operating system. Thanks to Pascal Hakim for compiling this listing. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]