I recommend to accept Sébastien Villemot as a Debian Developer.
1. Identification & Account Data
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First name: Sébastien
Middle name: -
Last name: Villemot
Key fingerprint: 20691DFCC2C98C47952984EE00018C22381A7594
Account: sebastien
2. Background
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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!
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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++ GNU/Linux userspace developer, Debian Developer
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