Report for new developer applicant Christine Spang <spang@mit.edu>
1. Identification & Background
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Check with keyid C3DC59FA:
ID check passed, key signed by three existing developers:
Matthew Danish
Noah Meyerhans
Ari Pollak
Output from keycheck.sh:
pub 1024D/521381BA 2005-07-04
Key fingerprint = FAFB 4E42 053A 8EDB 918E 765F 77BD D7B9 5213 81BA
uid Anne Christine Spang <christine.spang@gmail.com>
sig! C24B6010 2005-08-23 Matthew Danish <mrd@debian.org>
sig!1 11404EC3 2006-04-09 Noah Meyerhans <noahm@csail.mit.edu>
sig!3 B70E403B 2006-04-08 Ari Pollak <ajp@aripollak.com>
Let's test if its a version 4 or greater key
Key is ok
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Key has no expiration date set, nothing to check.
Applicant writes:
My name is Anne Christine Spang, though nobody calls me Anne unless
they're either attempting to be formal or attempting to get on my
nerves. I am currently 17 years old, born November 6, 1988, and have
been using Debian GNU/Linux since around September of 2004.
My road to becoming a Debian contributor has been an interesting one,
to say the least. I suppose it began some time ago, with my uncle, who
is an independent Linux/UNIX consultant. I can vividly recall visiting
his house years ago with my siblings, playing Mirror Magic and printing
ASCII banners of our names for fun.
I did not end up becoming a user myself until much later, however.
Ultimately, it stemmed from my interest in roleplaying games -- text-
based MUDs (multi user domains), in my case. I started playing them
in mid 2003, and eventually ended up getting into the administration
and management aspects of them, which sparked an interest in Linux
because of the fact that most MUD servers require it to run, and in
turn to fiddle with the server code. Though, I did not have my own
computer until around April of 2004 or so and thus had little choice
about operating systems until then.
So, some time after that my brother ended up doing some magic on my
machine which ended up with, after a nervewracking time of trying to
fix my old, backupless Windows partition which was rendered unbootable
for a while, a working Debian installation. Debian was chosen originally
because it was my uncle's distro of choice, I believe; he gave my brother
a copy of the potato release on CD at some point, I think. I ended up
running sarge, though, then the testing distribution.
At that, I was released with an ancient intro-to-Linux book and not
much else. I actually didn't start using Debian regularly at the start,
due to a problem with wireless drivers. No Internet, no fun. Things
were eventually solved, however, and I had a ball of a time breaking
things for quite a while, though every time I broke something I had to
either figure out how to fix it myself or appeal for local help, which
was quite good motivation to go to all lengths to figure it out myself.
And thus I learned to RTFM.
Eventually, I started getting up on this whole RSS thing and I started
to read Planet Debian, looking on Debian development with curiosity.
I didn't quite have the motivation to actually get involved, however,
until I stumbled on a blog entry of Hanna Wallach's concerning the
Debian Women project. Curious that they seemed very eager to attract
more women into contributing, I visited the Debian Women website and
eventually started hanging out on their IRC channel.
Needless to say, here I am. I joined the shadow packaging team after
Christian Perrier asked for bug triagers on the d-w mailing list and
he eventually became my sponsor once I started packaging. I owe him
a lot for his help and encouragement to apply for NM (he is my
advocate). I have also learned a lot about the free and open source
philosophies and what they mean in the big picture.
I hope to continue promoting team packaging and cooperation where
appropriate in Debian, as well as hopefully work on improving the
Debian desktop. I also have an interest in QA work.
Besides my Debian story, I'll share a few other things about me. I
will graduate from high school in June this year, and then I'm off
to the big wide college world. I enjoy reading fantasy and sci-fi
novels, distance running, and being anti-social^W^W^W and playing
the French horn and trumpet in a variety of ensembles. Other than
that, I do semi-normal teenager things.
2. Account Data
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Account: christine
Forward-Email: spang@mit.edu
3. Philosophy and Procedures
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Christine has a good understanding of Debian's philosophy and
procedures. She answered the questions about the social contract,
DFSG, BTS, etc. in a good way. He committed to uphold the SC and
DFSG in his Debian work and accepts the DMUP.
4. Tasks and Skills
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Christine has a good understanding of the technical side of Debian.
Christine is maintainer of quodlibet-plugins, nautilus-actions and
gquilt. All packages are in good shape. She also answered the
questions regarding T&S without problems and provided patches for
RC bugs.
5. Recommendation
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I recommend to accept Christine as a Debian Developer.
Best Regards,
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
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http://v7w.com/anibal
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