AM report for Hubert Chan
1. Identification & Background
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pub 1024D/124B61FA 2002-05-13
Key fingerprint = 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA
uid Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
sig! 78916B84 2002-09-19 Ryan M. Golbeck (Main E-mail Account) <rmgolbeck@uwaterloo.ca>
sig!2 628B8E69 2004-03-13 James Morrison (Well, I wonder if I should stay as fuzzy as I am) <ja2morrison@student.math.uwaterloo.ca>
sig!3 7796A60B 2002-09-19 Simon Law <sfllaw@debian.org>
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sub 2048g/BA39FBA2 2002-05-13
sig! 124B61FA 2002-05-13 Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
"I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo
in Ontario, Canada. I enjoy programming, and am pretty comfortable in
C/C++/Objective-C, Perl (as long as I have my camel book with me), and
am learning Python. I also do some shell scripting, when I'm forced
to, and I've done some hacking in Emacs lisp. As for non-computing
interests, I enjoy biking, photography, camping, and playing soccer.
I've been playing with computers for almost as long as I can remember.
I first came to Linux way before Linux 1.0, with the SLS
distribution, which came on about 100 floppies. At the time, it was
just a toy for me, but I didn't spend much time with it. I guess my
first real major contact with Free software was with emx, an
environment for OS/2 using the GNU tools, including gcc. I think it
was around that time that I was entering University, and it was nice
to be able to use the same compiler that they were using at school.
Of course, eventually IBM stopped supporting OS/2, and so I decided to
switch to Linux full time.
I tried a few distributions, and on the recommendation of a friend, I
gave Debian a try when it was time for a reinstall (either because of
a borked hard drive, or new computer -- I forget). I was impressed
with the ease of package management, the quality of the distribution,
and the openness of the developer and user community. I started
contributing by answering questions in -user and -laptop, and by
submitting bugs to the BTS (and offering patches or solutions on the
few occasions that I was able to). I eventually learned how to create
my own packages, and now have a few packages in Debian (hashcash,
asymptote, alsaplayer (co-maintained), the GNUstep core libraries, and
a few other GNUstep things). My most recent major undertaking was
making the GNUstep packages (more) compliant with the FHS. I was also
fairly active with the Debian Interest Group at the University of
Waterloo, while it was active, and gave a few talks and helped
administer its machines.
I really enjoy working with Debian and with its developer community,
and I hope that I can help make it a better distribution. As a DD, my
main focus would be on packaging. But of course, I would try to
contribute in any other ways that I can -- reporting (and fixing)
bugs, being active on the mailing lists, cooperating with other
Developers, writing documentation, helping users get started."
2. Philosophy and Procedures
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Hubert understands Debian's philosophy and procedures. He agrees with
the Social Contact and the DMUP, has answered questions relating to
philosophy, procedures and tasks/skills, and has been actively involved
in Debian since at least 2003.
3. Tasks and Skills
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Hubert maintains the following packages and is the co-maintainer of half
of the GNUstep packages... he has been very helpful with various GNUstep
transitions.
affiche
alsaplayer
asymptote
hashcash
pantomime
pdfkit.framework
popplerkit.framework
renaissance
4. Recommendation
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I recommend to accept Hubert as a Debian Developer.
5. Account Information
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Account: uhoreg
Forward-Email: hubert@uhoreg.ca
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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