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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