Report for new developer applicant Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>: 1. Identification & Background ------------------------------ Check with Keyid 0x0A5FB687: ID Check passed, Key signed by many developers, as shown below... Output from keycheck.sh 0x0A5FB687: pub 1024D/0A5FB687 2000-05-26 Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz.steinlin@soziologie.ch> Key fingerprint = 54C4 5000 49D3 DAA2 4214 3A59 F2B5 2A5D 0A5F B687 sig! 68FD549F 2003-07-30 Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> sig!2 3F3E6426 2003-07-13 Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org> sig!2 797EBFAB 2003-07-15 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org> sig!2 607559E6 2003-07-16 Benjamin Hill (Mako) <mako@debian.org> sig!2 2BE16D01 2003-07-23 Moray Allan <moray@sermisy.org> sig!2 5706A4B4 2003-07-27 Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de> sig!2 5662C734 2003-07-30 Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> sig!3 75BE8097 2003-07-15 Florian Lohoff <flo@mini.gt.owl.de> sig!3 44779E18 2003-07-16 Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@debian.org> sig!3 BD8B050D 2003-07-17 Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> sig!3 86A118E6 2003-07-18 Christian Hammers <ch@lathspell.de> sig!3 29F19BD1 2003-07-18 Michael Meskes <michael@fam-meskes.de> sig!3 7E7B8AC9 2003-07-22 Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> sig!3 94C09C7F 2003-07-22 Peter Palfrader sig!3 07447252 2003-07-24 Thorsten Sauter <tsauter@gmx.net> sig!3 4B3A135C 2003-08-10 Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org> sig! 0A5FB687 2000-05-26 Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz.steinlin@soziologie.ch> [...] Applicant writes: As you probably already know, my name is Gaudenz Steinlin and I live in Bern, Switzerland. I'm 28 year old. I'm currently studying Sociology and Mathematics at the University of Bern. I will finish my studies with a masters degree in about a year. I came to Unix and Linux in summer 1995 when I was attending a Computer Science Camp for high school/college students at the Computing Center of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. There we were using some flavour of UNIX and another student told me about Linux which he said was licensed under Copyleft so anyone can download it for free. I then downloaded some Slackware disk sets with my modem at home and started playing with Linux. Later I tried SuSE because it was the only distribution available on CD in most Swiss book stores. About three years ago I started using Debian because I got annoyed by all those wizards SuSE implemented in YaST. They changed things I strange ways. Debian is my primary choice as Linux Distribution since then. Most of my Linux skills I learned while working for the Computer Services Department of the University of Bern. I implemented the first Linux solutions there. Among other things I set up a cluster for "High Performance Computing" and gave introductory courses to Linux for system administrators. Currently I'm teaching basic Linux System Administration for the Swiss Institute of Intellectual Property. They want to do a LPI L1 certification for some of their Windows System Administrators. Since about half a year I'm working on the debian-installer project. I was looking for a free software project to get involved with and this project was listed on debians /devel/todo website. I also attended the Oldenburg d-i debcamp. After becoming a Debian Developer I intend to continue to work on debian-installer. If someday d-i will be perfect and nothing more needs to be done (I don't expect this to happen in the next few months :-) ) I will look for another part of Debian that needs help. I'm also interested in making Debian more friendly to computer newbies while still having a good distribution for experts. I will probably also maintain some packages (see below) but this is not my main interest and I'm more interested in team efforts where I can learn from others and work with them (and hopefully someone can also learn from my experience) than in doing packaging work all on my own. I'm really convinced of the idea of free software and I think that this software development model is superior to proprietary software for practical and philosophical reasons. This is the main reason why I want to contribute to Debian. After using free software for several years and also earning some money with it I think it's time to give something back. Free Software is also a great way to learn more and I hope that my skills will constantly improve while working for Debian. 2. Philosophy and Procedures ----------------------------- Gaudenz understands and agrees to uphold Debian's philosophies. He was also able to answer all my questions about Debian's procedures. 3. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Gaudenz is the maintainer of passepartout, which is in Debian sponsored by Sebastian Ley <ley@debian.org>. In addition, he has been working for d-i, specifically with yaboot-installer, netcfg and discover. He also answered my questions regarding T&S without problems. 4. Recommendation ----------------- I recommend that Gaudenz be accepted as a Debian Developer. -- Duncan Findlay
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