AM report on Viral Shah
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First intro mail: 20-10-2000
First Contact: 21-10-2000
ID check: 06-11-2000
P&P check: 01-11-2000
T&S check: 10-11-2000
Finished: 10-11-2000
Conclusion:
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I recommend that Viral becomes a Debian developer.
Applicant info:
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Name: Viral Shah
Current email: viral@seul.org
Preferred email: viral@debian.org
(to be forwarded to gandalf@infofin.com)
Phone number: +91-22-2812194 or +91-22-2814779
(only at evenings in India: IST=GMT+5.5)
Identification:
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Viral provided me with the following gpg key:
pub 1024D/6E25E283 2000-10-20 Viral <viral@seul.org>
sub 1024g/D409CE95 2000-10-20
He could not get it signed (there are no developers in India yet), so he
sent me a scan of his passport (see attached).
Identification check passed.
Policy and procedures:
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Viral explicitly agrees to follow the DSG and the DFSG in all his Debian
related work. I asked him some questions about those documents and in
his answers he showed a thorough understanding of the main points. (see
also attached mail).
Policy and procedures check passed.
Tasks and Skills:
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Viral wrote me:
| There's a lot of stuff for Clusters that not already packaged for
| various reasons. I have access to a cluster here, and want package
| various clustering software for debian. For instance, mosix and
| generally work towards a cool debian-beowulf.
| I intend to package any already unpackaged GA (Genetic Algorithms)
| software around, as I'm currently working on them.
|
| There's a statistics library we're working on geared for use by
| economists, libans, which we will release as soon as some basic stuff is
| in place.
|
| I'm also going to be developing a scalable Trading System soon, which
| will be (or at least try to be) as good as the ones out there. As and
| when code comes out, I intend to release it through debian.
|
| Apart from that, there are various algorithms that I code for various
| projects, which I'd like to make available as open source through
| suitable packaging.
He had already finished a package (libans0). I checked it, and except
for some minor glitches, it lookes ok.
Tasks and skills check passed.
--
Kind regards,
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| Bas Zoetekouw | Si l'on sait exactement ce |
|--------------------------------| que l'on va faire, a quoi |
| zoetekw@phys.uu.nl | bon le faire? |
| bas@A-Es2.uu.nl | Pablo Picasso |
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