I recommend to accept Andreas B. Mundt as a Debian Developer. 1. Identification & Account Data -------------------------------- First name: Andreas Middle name: B. Last name: Mundt Key fingerprint: 938A5CEE1E290DE255D9AC98B01FEA84617B586D Account: andi 2. Background ------------- Andreas says: My (Debian-) computing career started about 8 years ago after finishing my PhD in physics. I started working with GNU/Linux and followed various activities in the software community: My desktop machine runs a free (coreboot.org) BIOS, and I tested and played with the nouveau-driver early. On my laptop I installed Debian GNU/Hurd and I convinced friends to use GNU/Linux and supported them when problems occurred. However, during that time I was looking around for interesting stuff, but I never decided to focus and actively work on a project (i.e. more than a few bug reports/fixes or testing reports). This changed when I decided to give up my R&D job in an optics company after 3 years because it was not satisfactory to me any more. I need to do things I can really support. So I decided to teach pupils at high-school (in Germany "Gymnasium", aged ~10 to ~18). To teach as a physicist, I had to complete a two years training with exams etc., which I finished early this year. I started teaching mainly physics, maths and information technology 5 weeks ago in a small village called Blaubeuren near Ulm, South Germany, (I grew up around Stuttgart, not too far from Strasbourg :). Most of the time since I left my parents' home I spent in Aachen, Edinburgh, Innsbruck and Munich). Having followed Debian-Edu for quite some time before, I chose this project some time ago to be the one I want to work and volunteer on. For me, it's important that I use and know the stuff I am working on. In Debian-Edu, I hope to fill a niche: I am working at school as a teacher, I know (some of) the systems used there, I know the teachers and their needs and complaints, but I can, on the other hand, discuss the technical implementations with professional sysadmins and developers. In the long run I hope I can run Debian-Edu at my school, and maybe convince the LMZ <URL:http://www.support-netz.de/leistungen/technische-plattform/paedml-linux.html> to use simply Debian-Edu. As you might have noticed, I have been heavily involved in implementing Kerberos in Debian-Edu and improving the ldap frontend. As an alternative to lwat (which in my opinion is dead), I implemented GOsa as ldap administration tool. On this line I plan to develop a system for work groups at universities or small enterprises: It should be easily maintainable by a 'part time' sysadmin, but more flexible than the current Skolelinux. I have contact to my former colleagues which are still in university research, and I think if we can provide a Debian system like that it would be great. (They set up their own system, copying /etc/shadow to different machines more or less manually ...). I talked with Michael Banck about this because he had the same idea using GOsa and FAI to accomplish the goal. Perhaps some collaboration is possible. A first start would be to break the skolelinux installation up in pieces and clearly document the installation process. (See: <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2010/08/msg00037.html>) Concerning packages, I do not work on many packages right now. For me, it's important to have a association to the package I work on. The idea is to take more responsibility for packages on the way (take over packages needed in Debian-Edu, package new educational software). Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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