Enrico Zini via nm <enrico@debian.org> (2014-07-25): > Hello, > > I recommend to accept Ian James Campbell as a new Debian Developer, uploading. > The account name is ijc. > > * Applicant background > > I was first exposed to Unix during my gap year before starting > university which I spent working as a developer on (proprietary) > embedded OS kernels at a company whose infrastructure was all SunOS and > Solaris based. I liked it enough that I wanted to run something similar > on my own machines and Linux was the obvious choice. I initially started > out on Red Hat but later switched to Debian around Potato time, based > mostly on word of mouth about its technical strengths and the fact that > it was a community driven distribution (this was pre-Fedora). I started > following the lists and began to appreciate the philosophical aspects of > Free Software. > > After University I worked at an embedded hardware manufacturer producing > an embedded Linux distro (which I modelled heavily on Debian) for their > hardware platforms, where I took my first steps into contributing to the > Linux kernel and eCos (a Free embedded OS). From there I moved to > XenSource (the company behind the Xen hypervisor, which later become > part of Citrix) which allowed me to begin working with and contributing > to more Free Software communities. After an initial focus on the > upstream development side I spent a few years on productisation front > but in the last couple of years I have been focusing entirely on > upstream development and maintenance again as part of a team within > Citrix dedicated to this. I'm fortunate enough that this means I can > spend some (smallish) amount of work time on Debian-ish things although > this is by no means my only motivation -- I have plenty of my own > personal itches to scratch! > > My main areas of interest within Debian are mostly at the lower levels > e.g. kernel support for new platforms, as well as improvements to > existing platforms. I've also worked on installer and cd improvements > where necessary to enable the use of a platform. For example I maintain > the Xen support in the kernel and implemented support for installation > as a Xen guest in Debian installer, similarly I added support to the > kernel and installer for the Dreamplug (ARM plug computer) platform. I > also maintain the qcontrol utility for QNAP devices (ARM based NAS). > > In the future I expect to be doing more of the same. I'm working quite a > bit on ARM devices at the moment and with ARM making a move into the > server space I'm keen for Debian to be an option on those platforms. Oh yeah! Nice work as far as I can see in the arm*, kernel, and installer areas! Me wants moar minions like him! Mraw, KiBi.
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