Excerpts from Jan Steffens's message of 2010-04-19 08:20:53 +0200: > Greetings, > > My name is Jan Alexander Steffens and I'm a 22 year old CS student > living in Karlsruhe, Germany. > > I've been introduced to Linux in high school, where the administration > team (which mainly consisted of students) were avid supporters of free > software. > > Since then, I went through quite a few distributions: SuSE, Mandrake, > Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. Gentoo was the first distribution that got me > interested in getting to know the internals a bit more. About a year > ago, a fellow CS student introduced me to Arch. After I blew up my > Fedora installation (accidentally wrote to /dev/root), I chose to give > Arch a try. I got hooked. Its simplicity really makes it a joy to tinker > with. :) Especially creating packages and offering them to others (AUR) > is something Arch made easy. > > I currently run two Arch systems, one on my laptop and one on a headless > box mainly acting as a router. Both are getting packages from [testing]. > > Arch is the first distribution I actually started contributing back to. > I began frequenting the Archlinux channels on Freenode, now and then > helping out others and asking my own questions. I reported bugs I found, > and I uploaded and maintain 15 packages in the AUR [1]. > > I use Pulseaudio on my laptop: Some of my packages in the AUR center on > it, and I gave the wiki page on Pulseaudio an overhaul. I'm interested > in taking over maintenance of the pulseaudio packages in [community] and > improve Pulseaudio on Arch Linux. > > A few days ago, I finally got up the nerve to write about my gripes with > the gvim package and propose a solution [2]. I was overwhelmed with the > positive response. Now Dan Griffiths approached me and offered to > sponsor my application as a TU. Thank you, Dan. > > I hope I'm getting accepted as TU and we can work together on improving > this great distribution. :-) > > Regards, > Jan "heftig" Steffens > > > 1: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=heftig > 2: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19087
Good luck! Taking on the PA challenge is quite something. Regards, Philipp
