This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 18 Dec 2005. 2 applicants became maintainers. Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck> I recently graduated from Harvey Mudd College (in California) with a major was Computer Science and Mathematics. I now work as a programmer in a small web development company in Seattle, Washington. I use Debian GNU/Linux on my desktop computers at home (for myself and my family), and I administer a Debian server for internal use in my office. [...] While working on an audio-related school project, I began using the Audacity sound editor. Later I found out that it was written by Dominic Mazzoni, whom I knew from school. I started working with Dominic and the other upstream authors, and I am now one of the core developers of Audacity. I also contribute occasional bug fixes and improvements to the other free software that I use most, including Linux, Gnucash, the GNOME desktop, and various Debian packages. [...] Most of Audacity's users are not computer experts. We make great effort to ensure that the program works for people who are new to computers or digital audio. I want to help make free software accessible to these users too, by working on the documentation, usablity, and integration of the Debian desktop. I think that this is an important part of meeting the Debian Social Contract's promise to "our users and free software." I currently contribute in small ways to Debian GNOME packaging, via the BTS and the debian-gtk-gnome list. Later this summer I will be moving to a part-time position at work, and I plan to devote more time to Audacity, Debian, and GNOME. I will continue to work on improvements to the out-of-box experience for novice or casual users. I'll also work with the debian-desktop and debian-multimedia groups on overall integration of the operating system. Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm> I'm a Westphalian 25 y/o student of computing science, living in Bremen, Germany and currently writing my diploma thesis about static source code vulnerability analysis on intermediate representations of GCC. I've been using free software in general since about ten years and Debian in particular since Hamm. The technical correctness and strict focus on free software caught my attention at that time and is keeping up until today. I've been deeply involved in the testing security team since half a year and plan to continue to do so. I'm currently maintaining a few games (prboom, freedoom, lincity-ng) and co-maintaining surfraw. I'll package high quality games as they come across, as that's an area where free software still has many deficiencies. As a future goal I would like to get involved in QA work to help keeping Debian's archive size scalable. Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach erklärt 7: DOS Denial Of Service (Kristian Köhntopp)
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