Report for new developer applicant Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org> 1. Identification & Background ------------------------------- Check with keyid 0x70096AD1 Syncing Debian Keyrings with rsync from keyring.debian.org Receiving and checking key gpg: requesting key 70096AD1 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net pub 1024D/70096AD1 2005-12-28 Key fingerprint = D004 36A9 0C4B D120 0202 0A3C 37E1 C175 7009 6AD1 uid Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org> sig! E9ABFCD2 2006-06-29 Devin Carraway <aqua@atlantic.devin.com> sig! 17063E6D 2006-08-18 Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net> sig! 808D0FD0 2006-08-24 Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> sig! 6E76D81D 2007-08-11 Sean Finney <seanius@seanius.net> sig! C2CE8099 2007-12-21 NOKUBI Takatsugu <knok@daionet.gr.jp> sig! E7075A54 2008-01-01 Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mhatta@gnu.org> sig! 1CF2D62A 2008-01-28 Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net> sig! 607559E6 2008-04-12 Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@ubuntu.com> [...] Let's test if its a version 4 or greater key Key is ok Check for key expire stuff Key has no expiration date set, nothing to check. Applicant writes: I'll try to keep this short and to the point; I could make it a few times longer, but I'll save such writing for my website. (-: I came to GNU/Linux in 1999 when a friend at a summer camp was doing some obscure thing at a workstation in a library. It looked like DOS, but remote. He said, "It's Linux." At the time, I was in the start of high school. My desktop computer on Windows 98 was crashing every twenty minutes, so I figured this would be a good time to try out what he was talking about. I stumbled across the GNU Manifesto in a text editor named Emacs, and I quickly understood the Free Software values underlying so much of the system. In addition to liberating, the system was empowering, and I set up a machine (eventually running Debian) to be a home network gateway at my house. Software like GNU HTTP Tunnel helped teach me about connecting networks that didn't want to be connected, and as OpenSSL had a few vulnerabilities in the coming few years I learned about hand-compiling packages when my distributor (Mandrake at the time) stopped shipping updates. Quickly I saw the value of Debian, so in 2002 I switched my desktop to that. Additionally to the above, today I run a mail/web/DNS server for myself, some friends, and Students for Free Culture <freeculture.org>, and in college I quickly became a member of the Association for Computing Machinery <http://acm.jhu.edu>. At ACM, with others (mainly Albert Lee in my time), I worked on setting up and standardizing new desktops through the use of a metapackage (NOT of Debian archive quality!) and switching our authentication from NIS to LDAP. In 2005 I began to follow up on my urge to contribute to Debian, so I started work on a few small packages (cue2toc and ccd2iso) and now also maintain a more significant package, the alpine mail user agent. 2. Account Data --------------- Account: paulproteus Forward-Email: asheesh@asheesh.org 3. Philosophy and Procedures ----------------------------- Asheesh has a good understanding of Debian's philosophy and procedures and answered all my questions about the social contract, DFSG, BTS, etc. in a good way. Asheesh committed to uphold the SC and DFSG in his Debian work and accepts the DMUP. 4. Tasks and Skills ------------------- Asheesh has a good understanding of the technical side of Debian. He answered my questions without any problems and was very eager to fix bugs. He is also very friendly and enthusiastic. 5. Recommendation ----------------- I recommend to accept Asheesh as a Debian Developer.
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