On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:35, Chris Brannon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone! > I wish to become an ArchLinux Trusted User. To that end, here > is a bit of information pertaining to me. > > I started using Linux in the summer of 2000. Before that time, I used > Unix shell accounts offered by various Internet service providers. > I've been using some flavor of *nix since 1995. > I'm blind, and I've always worked from a text console. Dialup Unix shell > accounts had mostly vanished by 2000, so I installed Slackware. > > I used Slackware until early 2007, and I learned a great deal about Linux > in the process. I could describe my reasons for dropping Slackware, but > I won't. It's a fine distribution, and the answer to the "which distribution > is best" question is mostly subjective. > After looking at several distros, I settled on Arch in September > of 2008. Moving to Arch was easy for me, because of my years of experience > with Slackware. > > Currently, I maintain 8 packages in unsupported, and this number is growing. > See the following URL for my work: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=cmb > My username on the BBS, AUR, and wiki is cmb. > > I want to do my part to make ArchLinux more accessible to the blind. > My first order of business is to submit two packages to the community > repository: speakup and espeakup. > These two packages provide one reliable method of supplying spoken output from > the text console under Linux. > > I will endeavor to faithfully represent the interests of the whole > ArchLinux user community, not just those of the tiny subset who are blind. > > Allan McRae is my sponsor. Thank you Allan. > > With kind regards, > -- Chris >
Excellent! I'm thrilled that you're applying, and I think you'll be a very valuable addition to the team
