Report for new developer applicant: Jarno Elonen 1. Identification & Background ------------------------------ Jarno was advocated by Riku Voipio: I know Jarno Elonen personally, he worked as my boss at my previous workplace. I hold great respect to both his open source vision, as well as to his programming and Unix/Linux skills. He has participated debian's kde and openoffice work and his packages (Agi studio, soikko, nagi that I plan to sponsor ) have been well done, and all packaging-related problems in those packages have been quickly resolved. I believe Jarno would be great value to the project as a developer. GPG Keyid: F512B8CB Jarno's key is signed by Riku Voipio. Background: Jarno says about himself: 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 2. Philosophy and Procedures ---------------------------- Jarno shows a very personnal and deep understanding of Free Software and Debian philosophies. He was able to answer all my Questions about Social Contract, DFSG, BTS etc. to my satisfaction. I am confident in Jarno's knowledge in both philosophy and policy. 3. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Jarno is Maintainer of agistudio and nagi. Both are very well packaged. He also answered my other Questions regarding T&S without major problem. Jarno proved he is able to maintain packages and to contribute to Debian. 4. Recommendation ----------------- I recommend that Jarno be accepted into the Debian project as a developer. Account: elonen Forward-Email: elonen@iki.fi Cheers, Benjamin -- .''`. ; ;' ; Debian GNU/Linux | Benjamin Drieu `. `' http://www.debian.org/ | <benj@debian.org> `-
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