1. Identification & Background ------------------------------ pub 1024D/17063E6D 2000-03-22 uid Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net> sig! F5C75256 2007-01-19 Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> sig! 1880283C 2007-01-28 Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org> sig!3 5E0577F2 2006-11-09 Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de> sig!3 10FA4CD1 2006-11-09 Colin Watson <cjwatson@flatline.org.uk> ... "I've been programming since I first got my hands on a Sinclair ZX80. I studied Computer Science in school, and jumped from DOS directly to Linux 1.0. After reading about copyleft, my mind was forever altered. I suddenly had an understanding why software needed freedom, and it has basically driven my decisions ever since. I was a longtime RedHat user, but some time around 2002 RedHat stopped booting my desktop, which was the last straw, and I switched to Debian, finally heeding many of my friends' recommendations. I remained only peripherally involved in the Debian community, filing the occassional bug report or sending in a patch or two. Even now, I tend to try to work upstream; I have a long history of sending patches to all sorts of projects (openssh, openssl, wine, mplayer, linux kernel, mythtv, snort, ettercap). After I got involved in the Ubuntu community via my Canonical work, I started to really understand the role of the kind of work needed to glue a distribution together. I started (or was passed the torch) for a few small free software projects and utilities: sendpage, gopchop, Device::SerialPort. While I enjoy various kinds of development work in these projects and continue to send patches to other projects, I seem to thrive most on security-related things, especially breaking security. :) In 2006, the team I was part of won the Capture the Flag hacking contest at DefCon, an accomplishment I had been trying to achieve since I first started going to DefCon. Since getting involved in Ubuntu security work, I've been coordinating my efforts with the Debian security team." 2. Philosophy and Procedures ---------------------------- Kees understands Debian's philosophy and proc He agrees with the Social Contact and the DMUP, has answered questions relating to philosophy, procedures and tasks/skills. 3. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Kees maintains jirc, metar, mp3cd, mythtvfs-fuse and orbital-eunuchs-sniper, and he's a co-maintainer of libdevice-serialport-perl. He's working with the security team, for example by submitting bug reports and patches. 4. Recommendation ----------------- I recommend to accept Kees as a Debian Developer. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/
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