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AM report for Niv Altivanik



1. Identification & Background
------------------------------

   Check with Keyid 0xC24B9018

   ID Check passed, Key signed from several existing DDs.

   Output from keycheck.sh 0x0xC24B9018

     pub  1024D/C24B9018 2004-12-05 Niv Altivanik (Debian GNU/Linux addict) <xaiki@cxhome.ath.cx>
          Key fingerprint = 6817 7B2B 2BF3 82F8 C499  CB98 CF95 3E76 C24B 9018
     sig!        6783ED5E 2005-02-08   Frederic Peters <fpeters@entrouvert.com>
     sig!2       F5D65169 2005-02-04   Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>
     sig!2       F7E8BC63 2005-02-05   Cédric Delfosse <cedric@debian.org>
     sig!2       904BE741 2005-03-24   Benjamin Drieu <benjamin@drieu.org>
     sig!3       B5444815 2005-02-15   Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
     sig!3       C24B9018 2004-12-14   Niv Altivanik (Debian GNU/Linux addict) <xaiki@cxhome.ath.cx>
     sig!3       C24B9018 2004-12-05   Niv Altivanik (Debian GNU/Linux addict) <xaiki@cxhome.ath.cx>
     uid                            Niv Altivanik <niv@cxhome.ath.cx>
     sig!        6783ED5E 2005-02-08   Frederic Peters <fpeters@entrouvert.com>
     sig!2       F7E8BC63 2005-02-05   Cédric Delfosse <cedric@debian.org>
     sig!2       904BE741 2005-03-24   Benjamin Drieu <benjamin@drieu.org>
     sig!3       B5444815 2005-02-15   Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
     sig!3       C24B9018 2004-12-14   Niv Altivanik (Debian GNU/Linux addict) <xaiki@cxhome.ath.cx>
     uid                            Niv Altivanik (Debian Packages) <xaiki+deb@cxhome.ath.cx>
     sig!        6783ED5E 2005-02-08   Frederic Peters <fpeters@entrouvert.com>
     sig!2       F5D65169 2005-02-04   Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>
     sig!2       F7E8BC63 2005-02-05   Cédric Delfosse <cedric@debian.org>
     sig!2       904BE741 2005-03-24   Benjamin Drieu <benjamin@drieu.org>
     sig!3       B5444815 2005-02-15   Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
     sig!3       C24B9018 2004-12-14   Niv Altivanik (Debian GNU/Linux addict) <xaiki@cxhome.ath.cx>
     sub  1024g/A0D92E0B 2004-12-05
     sig!        C24B9018 2004-12-05   Niv Altivanik (Debian GNU/Linux addict) <xaiki@cxhome.ath.cx>
     sub  1024D/50AEE0FF 2004-12-14
     sig!        C24B9018 2004-12-14   Niv Altivanik (Debian GNU/Linux addict) <xaiki@cxhome.ath.cx>
     
     Let's test if its a version 4 or greater key
     Key is ok


   Applicant writes:

     I'm a 21 years old student in Mathematics and Computer Science living
     in Paris.

     I've had my first touch with Free Software back in High School, but
     the slow modem connection and the little knowledge of computers
     resulted in a broken ( I still can't understand what happened ) trying
     to install an old Red-Hat a friend's (long-haird and bearded) father
     gave me. This had a simple result in my father not allowing me to
     show up in a 5 meters perimeter around the computer.

     The next touch I had with Free Software was wile staying at a friends
     house during my first prep' school year. There were 2 computers, One
     with Counter-Strike, that my friend was monopolizing and an old p166
     were his brother had installed a wired Operating System that was going
     by the code-name 'Potato'. God bless Counter-Strike, thanks to this
     stupid games I could discover the distribution I had to fall totally
     in love with. After a few days of harassing his brother, I got the
     root password and started to play with apt, removing /usr by
     inadvertence, and doing all the funny stuff that make us wish the
     nights could be longer.

     I was really impressed by the community thing, the guys helping you
     ( or mocking you, but that take loads of time also ) on IRC or on
     Mailing Lists, the silent-guys-in-the-dark that run the mirrors, all
     the code freely available, readable and hackable ! I definitively
     wanted to be part of that ( yeah, at first to be the guy that mocked
     the others on irc, sure ). And seduced by the integrity of the Debian
     model, the democracy that was it's base, and the quality that this way
     of thinking software gave.

     So after a year of buzzing on #debian-fr@irc.debian.org I wanted to
     do, something for the project, as at this time I didn't feel ready for
     applying, I decided to help by sharing my experience with other users,
     so I took my best box and dropped it on the Debian booth of the Linux
     Expo Paris 2003[1].=20
     ( you can see the box on this[2] photo, yes, the one with the
     all-painted-screen that's hiding the spiral on the side, and for the
     record we brought the box in the underground from my place with a
     friend. )

     On the next year, I started to look some docs on packaging, on the new
     maintainer process and stuff, but didn't feel ready still as I thought
     I had to learn at least perl, C to make a good maintainer, so I
     started learning. So I did what I knew for the project, I went to the
     Debian Booth at Linux Expo Paris 2004 ( that year I only had my laptop
     ).

     And Finally, I started packaging, subscribed to debian-devel, and
     seeked for a sponsor, found 2, taken a package a friend couldn't
     maintain anymore, and of course, went to the Debian Both at Linux Expo
     Paris 2005, where I could proudly ask all the DD I ran into to sign my
     key so that I can apply.=20

     And, there am I, I've got 2 packages in main (1 in testing/unstable,
     1 in unstable) and 1 waiting in NEW. ( and 2 ready for upload to my
     sponsors as soon as I check a licence Issue ).

     My main motivation in joining Debian is to make this distribution
     better every day by providing
     up-to-date-and-bug-free-but-still-user-friendly-and-easy-to-install
     packages of all the cool software out there, and closing bugs so that
     we all can use the software as we want to. This maybe classic, but
     my objective is to make sure Debian will always be the world-leading
     distribution.

2. Philosophy and Procedures
-----------------------------
   Niv has a good understanding of Debians Philosophy and
   Procedures. He answered all my Questions about Social Contract,
   DFSG, BTS etc. in a good way.

3. Tasks and Skills
-------------------
   Niv is Maintainer of glurp, skippy, lingot and grkellmdk, all Packages 
   in Debian (sponsored by Steve Kemp).
   He also answered my other Questions regarding T&S without problems.

4. Recommendation
-----------------
   I recommend to accept Nix as a Debian Developer.
   Account: xaiki
   Forward-Email: xaiki+deb@cxhome.ath.cx

yours Martin
-- 
<maxx@debian.org> ---- Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal Operation System
Wenn ich es mir recht überlege, glaubt die katholische Kirche selbst 
nicht an Gott. Oder warum ist ein Blitzableiter auf dem Kirchturm?
		-- Roger Schwentker in de.alt.sysadmin.recovery

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