This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 04 Sep 2005. 2 applicants became maintainers.
Christoph Berg <myon> I am a 27 year old computer science PhD student living in Saarbrcken in south-western Germany. I discovered the world of Linux and open source somewhere around 1995 and came to Debian about 3 years later. [...] On the non-Debian grounds, I am the upstream of ircmarkers and one of the active pisg developers. I am active on #mutt and #procmail and in the MuttWiki. [...] in which I'd like to contribute to Debian include ham radio applications, more Bridge-related packages, i18n support (utf-8, gettext, DDTP, aspell dictionaries), and QA work. And of course lots of other things as time evolves :-) Christopher Martin <chrsmrtn> I recently graduated from the University of Toronto with a Masters in History. Thus computing has always been a hobby, but one to which I devote considerable time. In 2001 I decided to try Linux, and though I installed several distributions, quickly settled upon Debian. While I came for the quality, I've since stayed for the community and the commitment to Free Software, which I find empowering and philosophically agreeable. Until 2004 I was content to evangelize Debian as a user. However, a combination of a desire to contribute back to the community, and to be a part of what I see as an important movement (Debian exemplifying the collective technical and social potential of Free Software), not to mention the presence of several "itches" in a few packages I used, led me to become a package maintainer, and as I honed my skills, to gradually increase the scope of my contribution. My long-term plans include the continued expansion of my work on the KDE packages, as part of a broader goal to improve Debian on the desktop. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]