Summary for Bruce Walker <bruce@w1bw.org> Background ^^^^^^^^^^ Bruce writes: My involvement with free software efforts goes back to the early 80s. I was involved in the TeX(82) development effort, doing a couple of the original ports. I was an early GNU emacs and gcc user in the mid-80s and donated some hardware to RMS for GNU back then. I've been running linux servers at home since '93 or '94 (I remember installing slackware with dozens of diskettes!). I've used lots of distributions, but settled on Debian a couple of years ago. I guess the short reason for why to get involved is that I spent 20 years building non-free things, all the while leveraging very heavily on free tools. Now semi-retired, I have the time and desire to give more back. Plus, I've been doing too much management and not enough hacking the last 7 years or so :-). Big interests of mine include security, time (e.g., ntp), wireless, ham radio, science apps, and possibly some sparc porting. I obviously won't get to them all! ID ^^ Bruce's key is signed by Josh Huber <josh@debian.org> dsilvers@ennui:~$ gpg --check-sigs 46DC0A36 pub 1024D/46DC0A36 1998-11-20 Bruce Walker <bruce@quidnet.com> sig! 46DC0A36 1998-11-20 Bruce Walker <bruce@quidnet.com> sig! 6B21489A 2001-12-19 Josh Huber <huberj@wpi.edu> uid Bruce Walker <bruce@w1bw.org> sig! 46DC0A36 2001-10-30 Bruce Walker <bruce@quidnet.com> sig! 6B21489A 2001-12-19 Josh Huber <huberj@wpi.edu> sub 2048g/DB3C8B91 1998-11-20 sig! 46DC0A36 1998-11-20 Bruce Walker <bruce@quidnet.com> Philosophy and Procedures ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Bruce has answered many questions relating to policy, the BTS, NMUs, The DFSG etc. He has demonstrated knowledge of the debian list server. Tasks and Skills ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Bruce has packaged a few programs -- notably linpsk is in unstable. His packaging was to a high standard, save a couple of cosmetic errors which he has pledged to correct in his next upload. The packaging of linpsk demonstrates a knowledge of the developer scripts and packages. Recommendation ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I therefore recommend that Bruce be made a Debian Maintainer. Debian Login: w1bw Forwarding Address: bruce@w1bw.org
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