I recommend to accept Sébastien Villemot as a Debian Developer. 1. Identification & Account Data -------------------------------- First name: Sébastien Middle name: - Last name: Villemot Key fingerprint: 20691DFCC2C98C47952984EE00018C22381A7594 Account: sebastien 2. Background ------------- I am 32 and I live in Paris, France. I have always loved playing with computers, starting in the mid-1980s with an Apple IIc offered by my father. I installed my first GNU/Linux system (a Slackware) in the mid-1990s. I instantly became fascinated by that OS both for technical and political reasons. Techically, a free system is the ideal playground for a hacker since everything can potentially be modified. Politically, I have always considered that freedom, cooperation and people empowerement are fundamental values, and GNU/Linux is the concrete manifestation of these values in the world of software. I discovered Debian in the beginning of the 2000s and since have never stopped using it on my personal and professional machines. Nowadays I am a researcher in computational economics. A significant part of my work is dedicated to the development of Dynare (http://www.dynare.org), a free software for running macro-economic models. You can learn more about Dynare and the use of Debian in computational economics by looking at the (short) presentation that I made recently at the “Debian for Scientific Facilities Days”: http://www.esrf.eu/events/conferences/debian-for-scientific-facilities-days-1 Packaging Dynare was my first significant contribution to Debian. Since Dynare runs on top of GNU Octave, I gradually became involved in the Debian Octave Group, and I am now a co-maintainer of Octave and its add-ons. More recently, I became co-maintainer of the linear algebra libraries (blas, lapack, atlas, openblas) on which Octave itself depends. Also, I am co-maintainer of GnuCash since September 2011. As you can see, I am mainly interested in the use of Debian in a scientific context, and especially in computational economics. I would like to foster the use of free software and Debian among economists. In particular, I already created a ready-to-use VM targeted at this specific range of users (see http://www.dynare.org/DynareWiki/DebianForEconomists). The next step would be to create a new debian-science meta-package for economics. In a similar vein, I would also like to bring the PelicanHPC project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PelicanHPC) closer to Debian; I am in touch with its author, Michael Creel, who is also a computational economist and has expressed interest in this idea. Another unrelated project is to contribute to the Debian Common Lisp Team. I am currently learning Common Lisp and the more I learn it, the more I enjoy it. And of course, I plan to continue maintaining the packages of which I am already a co-maintainer. As such, it already represents a quite significant amount of work! -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++ GNU/Linux userspace developer, Debian Developer
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