This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 18 Jan 2004 7 applicants became maintainers.
Moray Allan <moray> I'm currently a PhD student at Edinburgh University, doing research on probabilistic models. As an undergraduate I studied theology at Cambridge University. I was first introduced to Debian by Chris Rutter, with whom I shared an interest in the ARM architecture. In more recent years that interest has led me to work on free software for handheld computers; I am a developer in the GPE project, which provides a free GUI palmtop environment, using X and GTK. I'm already maintaining Debian packages for several GPE components, and intend to package more components as they become ready. Moray maintains gpq-julia, gpe-taskmanager, gpe-todo, libdisplay-migration, libtododb, teleport Andreas Barth <aba> I live in the city of München (Munich) in Bavaria, Germany, Europe, and work as a Software Engineer. Before working for money, I studied Mathematics. I started using Linux in 1996. My first Linux-system was Slackware, which I transferred home on a lot of floppy disks. After that, I tried RedHat, and started using Debian in 2000. With Slackware, and also with RedHat, I had to compile a lot of updates by myself, which was not too comfortable. Furthermore, I started to connect my computers more often to the internet, so I needed reliable (and easy-to-use) security updates. This was one major argument to try Debian, and now I'm really happy with it. It was always normal for me to share patches and fixes with the community. So it was just logical that I reported bugs via the BTS, wrote patches for them and tried to get my fixes really in. Debian (the distribution) is very useful to me; so it's also normal to give something back. For both reasons I became maintainer of a few packages, and also did some polishing work, e.g. the closing and re-titling of old WNPP-entries. Though I did enjoy the work outside my own packages, I have now enough open bugs at my hands to just work on my packages for the next time. After fixing the bugs, I'll do some more work outside my packages again. Andreas maintains dpkg-sig, libapache-mod-dav, mgetty, netpbm-free Jarno Elonen <elonen> I'm a programmer and have done mostly computer game development - in a very broad sense - for living. I'm pretty fluent in wide variety of aspects in software development and have had a chance to do pretty much anything from sound and graphics design to scripting, GUI programming, webmastering, video codec design and project management. Even after having been a founder in two companies, however, I still dislike business world in principle. In addition to being greedy and competitive by definition, it all feels kind of shallow: do boring and questionable things to get a product sold for a couple of months and then just forget about it - keeping all the copyrights and code for yourself, "just in case" or "to protect the owners' value". While I like the work itself, I loathe wasting and competition. A human life is short and I know I can contribute more that that. Until the business culture changes radically or I give up IT for something completely different, "Sustainable Software" on my free time is the way to go about it. Some of my activities: + Finnish translations of a few programs + Packaging and fixing applications (KDE apps, OpenOffice, video and graphics stuff) + Upstream development: http://agistudio.sf.net/ + Open *Content* projects like http://sanakirja.sf.net/ (an ambitious Finnish<->English lexicon project) Creative Commons @ Finland (discussing, maybe scripting, coming up) + Webmastering EFFI.org (Electronic Frontier Finland + Debian specific development: http://elonen.iki.fi/code/dpkg-merge/ http://elonen.iki.fi/code/parse-apt-files.inc Jarno maintains agistudio, imediff, nagi. Steinar Gunderson <sesse> I am a 20 year old student from Norway, currently studying for a master degree (second year, of five) in communication technology at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. I came to Linux in 1997 (I think), after having read a lot about it (using Linux as only operating system on my machines since 1999). My first installation was of Slackware 3.4, but after a few years I heard about this Debian' thing and saw it in action, being particularly impressed by their packaging system (then only controllable via dpkg and dselect :-) ), leading to a switch (or rather, a gradual migration) to Debian. After a while, I understood how much work was put into the packaging and integration of these systems, and wanted to give something back. Thus my intent to become a DD. :-) (Also, it's usually a lot easier to get problems fixed if you can do it yourself :-) ) Steinar maintains mozilla-locale-no-nb, as well as amoeba, and amoeba-data Isaac Jones <ijones> I am a professional software developer working in Columbus, Ohio. I recently graduated from Ohio State with a degree in Computer Science. I have never flipped over a car in a riot. (http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Midwest/11/25/columbus.disturbances/index.html) I have experience in a variety of programming languages including professional experience in C, C++, Java, and Haskell. I also have a great deal of interest in compilers and artificial intelligence. I currently work for an A.I. development firm and do a lot of Haskell programming. Isaac maintains haskell-mode, hat, hugs98, xppaut Frank Lichtenheld <djpig> I'm Frank Lichtenheld, a twenty-four years old student of physics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Besides my studies and my engagement in Debian I'm very active in student politics as member of our student parliament and as member of the students representation at our faculty. Before I came first in contact with Linux at the University about three years ago, I had mostly used Windows 9x (and before that MS-DOS) and had only basic programming experiences in Pascal and C. My main skills are now programming in Perl and text editing (LaTeX). I came to Debian in spring 2002 when we had to replace a Windows/Mac OS network of Desktop PCs at our students representation with something that works... After only having some experiences with SuSE I got quickly impressed by Debian's stability and superior package management. While learning to use Debian I also learned how to improve it and so I got involved. I started translating websites, adopted some packages and am currently searching my place in doing QA work. I maintain lincvs and doc-linux (the latter together with Colin Watson). I'm also very active as German translator and editor for the Debian Website. Göran Weinholt <weinholt> I'm a student of computer science and engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. I'm also the system administrator at AB Strakt where I take care of mostly Debian boxen. I've used Linux since 1997, and I've been learning C for almost as long. I want to volunteer my time to Debian because it's a free operating system, and I think that is a very nice thing to be working on. It's also very fun. I intend to maintain a small set of packages that I care alot about, and then mostly do QA work. I'd like to make the list of RC bugs smaller, and being able to NMU packages myself would really help alot. Göran currently maintains aterm (previously sponsored by Jordi Mallach) and giftcurs (previously sponsored by Robert McQueen, his advocate). Thanks to Pascal Hakim for compiling this listing. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]