Report for 'Debian Developer, uploading' applicant Michael Fladischer
Hello,
I recommend to accept Michael Fladischer as a new Debian Developer, uploading.
The account name is fladi.
* Applicant background
My first GNU/Linux distribution that I came into contact was RedHat 4,
back when I was a student at a Federal Higher Technical Institute.
This was back in 1999 and I was 17 at this time.
A classmate told me of something called Linux which had recently made
it's 2.x release. My first installation was a router for our dial-up
connection for which I configured NAT with ipchains. I was astonished
by how simple and effective the whole process of installation and
configuration was. This made me explore other software that came with
the distribution and I started writing my own software using Perl and PHP.
After graduating I started my first full-time job as a PHP developer
for a small company, building accounting applications.
After a short period, where I worked as a C developer, I started as a
system administrator at a newly founded Austrian university in 2005,
where I still work as a senior administrator and developer.
Starting with this position, I wanted to become active within the
distribution, that was the basis for my daily work: GNU/Debian.
My first goal for my contribution to Debian was the inclusion of the
celery stack, which I finished within my first year, thanks to so many
helpful people within the project, especially the Debian Python
Modules Team.
Over the following years, I continued to package software, most of it
related to the Python Django ecosystem.
At some point in 2012, I was approached by several of my sponsors if I
would like to apply for DM status, and in December 2013 my application
was granted.
My motivation for becoming a DD is simply to lend Debian a helping
hand where needed, maintaining packages and to bring high-quality work
into Debian.
Regards,
Charles Plessy
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