Hi Report for new developer applicant Volker Christian <voc@users.sourceforge.net>: 1. Identification & Background ------------------------------ Check with Keyid 0x10656584: ID Check passed, Key signed from 1 existing DD, Rene Mayrhofer. Output from keycheck.sh 0x10656584 pub 1024D/10656584 2003-08-16 Volker Christian <voc@users.sourceforge.net> Key fingerprint = 80AB 4164 7CF5 80D0 42C8 89D1 8B6C D060 1065 6584 sig!3 C3C24BDE 2003-08-27 Rene Mayrhofer <rene@mayrhofer.eu.org> sig!3 10656584 2003-08-16 Volker Christian <voc@users.sourceforge.net> sub 1024g/B4D218AB 2003-08-16 sig! 10656584 2003-08-16 Volker Christian <voc@users.sourceforge.net> 1 signature not checked due to a missing key Let's test if its a version 4 or greater key Key is ok Applicant writes: --8<------------------------schnipp------------------------->8--- Thats really a long story! I got my first computer nearly 20 years ago. It was a Sinclair ZX-81 (1 KB-RAM :-). It was fun to play with it and to learn the basic programming techniques. My first contact with a computer language was - of course - BASIC. But soon I also have tried to program this small thing in machine language. Time goes on and my next computer was a Apple II (64 KB-RAM, 1 MHz 6502). The native language (built into the Apples ROM) was again BASIC but I bought two floppy disc drives (160 KB each) which enables me to learn and use Pascal and the assembler language supported by the Apple Macro Assembler! I could tell you - this machine was really cool. After this period i got my first IBM compatible 80286 with MS-DOS 3.3. It was a huge step forward concerning memory and speed but coding wasn't fun anymore. And so i stopped coding until the early 1990s. I have just started my physics studies. Physicists only use UNIX workstations for their work - and so i had my first contact with that kind of operating system. I was totally fascinated about the concept of UNIX and C - I nearly couldn't stop to investigate this system. Soon I heard about a free "UNIX" for ix86 architectures - Linux. I saw it at a friends computer and I quickly realized, that this is the OS of my choice for my home PC. And coding suddenly was fun again. During my studies i started to support "new media" artists with my technical knowledge and my knowledge about linux. I realized many exciting projects in this area with the Austrian broadcasting cooperation (ORF (http://www.orf.at) and the Ars Electronica Center (http://www.aec.at) which is one of the world leading new media centers. You can find further informations about this projects on my present homepage http://www.soft.uni-linz.ac.at/About_Us/Staff/Christian/index.php During the years i have tried to replace commercial software as far as possible with open source software from my desktop. I found that in many areas open source software is more reliable than commercial software and that the concepts behind open source software are much more mature than those of commercial software especially MS software. Around a year ago I noticed a project called SynCE (http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce) which has the goal to implement the "ActiveSync" protocol (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wceactsy/html/ceoriActiveSync.asp) on linux. Because this project only implements the low-level calls I found that it is necessary to implement some user-level programs. So i started to code a application based on KDE and SynCE which I called SynCE-KDE and which should behave like ActiveSync. The reason that this is a piece of software which - i belief - is helpful for some people and my political conviction to replace MS software a widely as possible and third, that i got so much cool software From the open software community i decided to give something back to the community. Just now i am working with great effort on the SynCE-KDE (http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/kde). But why Debian? I was a Slackware user since my early Linux days. But about a year ago the last Slackware distribution 8.0 was terribly buggy that i decided to look for an other distribution with fits in my needs and is "compatible" with my political conviction. I have tried RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake and some other - and also Debian. After some time using Debian I found, that i have missed something till now. It really satisfied me with its package and release system. So Debian becomes MY new distribution. If you want to distribute software you also have to think how to do this. As i am a Debian user it was natural for my to try to support also debian packages of SynCE-KDE. That is also one of the main reasons why I want to become a Debian Maintainer - I will be able to support the official debian packages of SynCE-KDE by myself. Nevertheless, I also intent to package other peoples software for Debian. You may publish everything of this short notes! --8<------------------------schnapp------------------------->8--- 2. Philosophy and Procedures ----------------------------- Volker has a good understanding of Debians Philosophy and Procedures. He answered all my Questions about Social Contract, DFSG, BTS etc. in a good way. 3. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Volker is Maintainer of 13 packages in the archive. I checked synce-kde and agsync and found the usual stuff, nothing bad, he fixed it. He also answered my other Questions regarding T&S without problems. 4. Recommendation ----------------- I recommend to accept him as a Debian Developer. Account: voc Forward-Email: voc@soft.uni-linz.ac.at -- bye Joerg <Ganneff> kde und tastatur? passt doch nicht mit dem nutzerprofil "windepp" zusammen :)
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