Summary for Alexei Kaminski Identity -------- pub 1024D/C008CFC3 2001-11-12 Alexei Kaminski <kaminski@tpi.umn.edu> sig! C008CFC3 2001-11-12 Alexei Kaminski <kaminski@tpi.umn.edu> sig! 27572C47 2001-11-20 Aaron M. Ucko <ucko@debian.org> sub 1024g/84C5518D 2001-11-12 sig! C008CFC3 2001-11-12 Alexei Kaminski <kaminski@tpi.umn.edu> Background ---------- Russian, male, married. Born in 1972 in St. Petersburg, lived there until 1996. In 1996 moved to US (Minneapolis) as a Ph.D. students in physics at the University of Minnesota. Graduated this August. Now a postdoc at the physics department at the University of Maryland at College Park. First he came to DOS. It was 1992, DOS was 3.3, his computer was 286 with 2Mb memory, EGA monitor .... [cut here] .... (it was 1999) so he switched to Linux. What he uses it for? For web browsing and LaTeXing mostly. He also do some programming. He is also the system administrator for several Linux workstations around. What he intends to do for Debian, and why he wants to volunteer his time: As a physicist, he pretty often needs to calculate something like ((6.6e4)^(1/3))*0.15. None of the existing calculator programs satisfied him, so he decided to write his own. And he did it. And since he was doing the hard part (coding) anyway, he decided to enjoy the fun part of it. So he created an account at Sourceforge, and put his program there. It turned out that some people may indeed need it. There have been more that 1000 downloads within the last month and a half, he got some positive feedback, bug reports, and recommendations. So he decided to go further and have his program included into Debian. He could have it just sponsored into Debian, but he decided to become the maintainer for his program. There are two main reasons why he want to do it: (1) he is sure he will learn something new and interesting. (2) he think it will be more efficient if he is both the maintainer and the author. Philosophy & Procedures ----------------------- Alexei understands Debian's philosophy and agrees with it. Tasks & Skills -------------- Alexei is also ok with tasks and skills. He produced a good package, it is here: http://www.physics.umn.edu/~kaminski/calcoo-deb/ Recommendation -------------- I recommend that Alexei be accepted as a Debian maintainer. Debian login: kaminski Forwarding email: kaminski@tpi.umn.edu best regards cavok -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://filibusta.crema.unimi.it/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50
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