This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 29 Feb 2004. 4 applicants became maintainers.
David Harris <dbharris> David writes, "I'm currently living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I'm 23 years old, and a systems administrator by heredity and trade. I've worked professionally for 5 years, and non-professionally (typically at night, when nobody else was around) for a couple of years before that. I was first introduced to Debian via 2.1 (though it's possible I might have been introduced to it much earlier via a set of Infomagic CDs), and since the release of 2.2 I've taken a more active role in the Debian community as a whole. For the past two and a half years, I've been more involved with the packaging side of things. I've been using and operating computers since I was a young boy - I believe I was around four when I was allowed to play with a parent's mainframe login, and I was around five or six when I received my first personal computer, an Atari. These days I tend to stick with commodity hardware, as it's plentiful, cheap, and powerful (enough)." David maintains gmrun, gqmpeg, ipband, shaper, snac, and sopwith. He is also a co-maintainer for alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-modules-i386, alsa-oss, alsa-utils, dpatch Theodore Karkoulis <bilbo> I am a 22-year old developer from Athens, Greece, where I am doing my BSc in Software Engineering (grad. date:Aug-2004). I have worked in an IT corporation developing dynamic web pages, digital surveillance software and Linux clusters, as well a a popular music channel in Athens(MAD), where I worked with PHP and databases, as the whole channel was not using tapes, but a video server. I am a free-lancer at the moment because I must finish my BSc this year, hence I have no time to work anywhere. I am doing a bit of free-lancing work, though, focused on Web Development and mobile phone (Java/C ++ on Symbian) development. I got in touch with debian 2,5 years ago, when I started looking for a decent platform to host my software development activities (and a stable desktop OS). It is my base (and only) development platform since then. I instantly wanted to contribute to debian, because it made my life so much easier (especially with the apt system). Of course, I want to contribute to the Open Source Community as a whole, for helping me with all the open-source software, tutorials, comments, bug fixes etc. I believe I can help the Debian Community with packaging and package testing & bug fixing, but I would be very interested in porting Debian to other architectures (PowerPC is the only arch. besides i386 that I can work on at the moment, though, excluding my Symbian mobile). Theodore maintains kbarcode. Berin Lautenbach <berin> My day job is in computer security. Have covered a number of areas including administering large scale firewall installations, ITSEC evaluation and consultation in computer security and IT Risk Management. ~ Currently working in IT Risk Management for one of the banks in Australia. I first got involved in public domain software (prior to Open Source) about 12 years ago when I was running a BBS in Canberra. The BBS was mainly devoted to programming, and I wrote a number of packages for Sysops that became used around the world. (Yabom - for mail management, and Yatic for file distribution management.) My introduction to Linux was about 8 years ago with Slackware. Have played with Linux on and off over the years, but the bulk of my UNIX experience is with SunOS and Solaris. Have heavily used Open Source software just in general support of Solaris systems (Apache, SSL, SSH, OpenSSH, Tripwire, MRTG, etc. etc. etc.) More recently, I started getting back into the development side of Open Source when I started getting more into business style consulting in security. Wanted to keep the technical side of things going, so started looking at XML and the various emerging security standards. Needed a Linux distribution to work on at home, and discovered Debian. Liked it a lot, but it didn't have some of the libraries I used up to date. So started looking at what I could do to get them packaged. Found myself really enjoying it, so thought maybe there was more I could do there. What do I want to do? My real skill set lies in security. I have a feeling that that area is very well covered off, but one never knows. I've also done a bit in the programming area over time (currently working on the Apache XML-Security-C library implementing the W3C security standards). I think I can contribute in a number of areas on both fronts. Also done a fair bit on general system admin over time. Why do I want to volunteer my time? First and foremost, I get a real kick out of making things work. If I can do something useful to others at the same time then why not? Secondly - I have used a relied on Open Source software over the course of my career. It's helped me out innumerable times. Again - maybe something I do can help someone else out similarly. Finally - I honestly believe it's the best way to give people choice. A healthy, vibrant Open Source community will make sure that whatever commercial software is out there will always have competition. And that's what makes the computer industry change and evolve. Berin maintains xalan. Daniel Ruoso <ruoso> I had my first experience with a programming language when I was 6 years old (1990) typing the example programs that came with the manual of my old MSX Gradiente Expert. Ok, at that time I was really just typing the ugly BASIC code without understanding a single line (except the PRINT, GOTO and PLAY commands. A FOR loop was too much for me:). But when I finally got my 486 DXII 66 (1993) I started playing with qbasic (already understanding what I was doing). From that time to now, many things happened... From 1994 to 1997 I started studying Object Pascal and did some work (with my brother) with Delphi, but then I started to discover Linux (I started with Debian) and more important then this, I discovered Perl :). And this is when I started to work in an ISP as customer support, but started to create some helpful Perl scripts and CGIs, which created me an opportunity to start working in a company that created an Email Service Provider, and the project started just when I started working there. In this time I was using icewm and trying to read email with fmail (I don't remember if this is the name but it's a tk mail agent that can connect to IMAP, i know i could use Netscape mailer, but I just hate it). This is when I start in Free Software, creating my first CPAN module, Server::FastPL which has been removed, since it didn't work really nice because Unix Sockets simply wasn't ok at that time. And in August 2001 I started the biggest open source project I'm involved (in amount of code and scope) that is Perl Oak (http://perl-oak.sourceforge.net), which really was nice and pretty. And in 2003 I started programming in Java (ugh) J2EE (that was not my choice). But what I really like to code is the Oak2 Project, which I has just started (help needed). I'm on the team of the Debian Perl Group, and maintain cvs-autoreleasedeb and maildir-filter (that is still waiting for the override). I'm starting to package Oak, but maybe I'll wait for Oak2 to be ready. Daniel also maintains libboulder-perl and libcgi-formalware-perl. Thanks (as usual) to Pascal Hakim for compiling this listing. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]