Auth-Key: nmauth43d043db8ce3d39ec349479f5bddb963 Applicant: Cleto Martín Angelina <cleto.martin@gmail.com> I first met Cleto in 2003 when he was sophomore in the School of Computer Science at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, in Spain. We taught a short (20h) introduction course on GNU/Linux and he was an outstanding participant. He soon developed a deep understanding of the philosophy behind free software. He joined our research group[1] as a research assistant in 2004 and he started working on small free software applications we were involved in. The School of Computer Science granted him a scholarship in 2004/2005 to develop a customized GNU/Linux distribution for our students[2]. As you can imagine he based GNESIS on Debian. The GNESIS repository is still available[3] although he is actively pushing all of the generally useful GNESIS packages into Debian. He currently maintains several unofficial debian packages in GNESIS and also an official package (atheist[4]) sponsored by myself. Therefore he is already gaining familiarity with the Debian Policy. For the last 4 years Cleto uses Debian as his only OS in all of his computers. He is the only person I am aware of who was courageous enough to completely erase OSX from his powerpc based iBook. He is one of the most active participants in CRySoL [5], a local free software user group whose "recipes" are well known in Spain. CRySoL recipes basically instruct how to do common (and not so common) activities on a Debian system (ingredients are usually Debian packages). Cleto routinely works with free tools and IDEs (mostly on Debian machines). He also works as both translator and reviewer in the official project to translate to spanish the open book "Thinking in C++" by Bruce Eckel [6]. He is fluent with C, C++, Python, Java, LaTeX, make, bison, flex, Bourne shell, ... As a conclusion I can attest that Cleto is an outstanding free software supporter with a long lived interest in Debian. He is both user-oriented and technically capable. He is familiar with most of the Debian Policy and with the debian packaging tools. In the near future Cleto plans to introduce linthesia[7] (ITP #562487) into Debian. He would also like to contribute to spanish translations. He is also involved in the packaging and generalization of several home made tools. Francisco Moya [1] arco.esi.uclm.es [2] http://gnesis.esi.uclm.es/ [3] http://babel.esi.uclm.es/gnesis/ [4] http://packages.debian.org/sid/atheist [5] http://crysol.org [6] http://arco.esi.uclm.es/~david.villa/pensarC++.html [7] http://linthesia.sourceforge.net/ > On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 13:40 +0000, NM Front Desk wrote: > Auth-Key: nmauth43d043db8ce3d39ec349479f5bddb963 > Applicant: Cleto Martín Angelina <cleto.martin@gmail.com> > > Why do you advocate this person? (please provide a 5-10 line summary). > > You are encouraged to take questions such as the following into account > but you're not limited to answering these: > - How have they contributed to Debian already? > - What do they intend to do for Debian in the future? > - How do they interact with others, such as users and other developers? > > Please note that your answer may be cited on a public mailing list unless > you indicate otherwise. > > This is an automated message from the Debian New Maintainer website. > > Someone (possibly you) from the IP address 161.67.106.154 > nominated the Debian developer with the login "paco" as an advocate > for Cleto Martín Angelina's application. > > If you want to complete the advocacy process reply to this email, answer > the questions above and GPG sign it. Please also make sure to include the > Auth-Key (listed above) in your GPG signed reply. > > If you do not want to advocate this application or do not know what it > means, just ignore this email. > >
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