This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 16 Nov 2003. 3 applicants became maintainers.
Emanuele Rocca <ema> I am 20 years old, live in Genova, Italy and study Computer Science. I came to the free software in April 2000; my first distro was Caldera, then I switched to Slackware and after some problems with the installation procedure I finally installed Debian. I was impressed by Debian's technical superiority, as well as its philosophy and the community based development behind id. After some time, I decided to give back to the community. I started translating some pages of the web site and then moved on to helping with packages. Emanuele maintains manpages-ru, urlview, worklog, fortunes-it Al Stone <ahs3> I've been working with software since I was about 15; but, that was _quite_ some time ago :). The first program I ever did was in this new thing called BASIC and I had to put it on paper tape for storage. So, it's been a while. And, I've made my living by writing software, for the last 27 years, doing everything from guidance algorithms in missiles, to accounting systems, to Unix(tm) kernel drivers. Over the last 10 years or so, I've found myself specializing in high performance software -- algorithms and tools for computing quickly, or finding out why I'm not computing as quickly as I would like. I would like to be able to contribute back to the world my experience and knowledge in these areas. I've been able to make a good life out of working with software; it is only fair and right that I contribute back to the community that made it all possible (that's the Social Contract and "why I _need_ to volunteer" part, in my mind). About 1999, when HP started getting more heavily involved in Linux, as soon as I could I volunteered to be part of the HP organization. I've been there ever since. The idea that someone would actually *pay* me to work with the stuff that I'd been playing with at home was far too attractive :-). We have quite a few Debian developers in this part of HP, so that's where I first learned about the Debian distribution, and have been hooked ever since. More specifically, I'd like to contribute to Debian several performance tools that I know and use (pfmon, oprofile and prospect, for example), as well as apply those tools to the bits and pieces that make up Debian. For example, I've been looking into binutils and where the various tools in the package spend their time; improving gcc is also a target for me. Al maintains libpfm, pfmon Alexander Wirt <formorer> My name is Alexander Wirt I'm 24 and I live in Wilhelmshaven in the north of Germany. Currently I'm a member of the german navy. But I look forward to the end of my period of service in the next year. In my free time I assist small companys in migrate to Unix/Linux and administer their machines. I learned eletronic technican with a specialisation for information technologies like Computers and Telephones. I get my first experiences with Linux in 1996 where I worked as an (windows) admin for a cybercafe. I had to build a router for our cafe and my boss gave me an old Suse Linux and a Computer with a modem. 3 hours later the router was ready for work. This was the beginning of a big love :). Next day I removed my Windows and installed my first Linux. A half year later I detected that Suse sucks and started with Helloween a localised Red Hat. The next 2 years I learned Perl, Python, Shell, a little Bit C and alle the stuff you need for running a Linux system. Then I started for a 2 year experience with OpenBSD what was very satisfyingly for me. There I learned much about security and doing things on a manual basis. In 2000 I had a small seminar about programming C and C++ under Linux. My tutor there was Hartmut Koptein, alias Hagggie, a very early Debian Developer. He showed me the world of Debian. 3 Weeks later my main Machine was running under Debian. Over the next 3 years I had very much fun with debian and now I think its time to give something back. Beside of the Computer itself I'm very interested in contributing free software, so I'm a member of the ffis an association for free software founded by Martin "Joey" Schulze and I participate also on several events for free software like the cebit or the hamburger computer tage. This year I look forward for the Linuxtag and the Debconf in Oslo. Alexander maintains fisg, mp3burn, pytone, selflinux Thanks to Pascal Hakim for compiling this listing. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]