* Sven-Hendrik Haase <[email protected]> [24.06.2010 17:05]: > Hey everybody, > > I'd like to apply for TU. I tricked Daenyth into sponsoring me. > Rocking since 1990 in Germany, I've been using Arch Linux for around two > years now and since I > seem to stick with it I thought I might as well become TU. I have past > experience in Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, > Fedora and DSL as well as a few minor ones (mostly spin-offs). I > currently have about 10 Arch installations > in all kinds of forms, virtual, chroot, desktop, laptop, incandescent gas. > > Whenever I'm not busy trying to create another cdrkit vs. cdrtools flame > fest on the mailing list > I'm generally trying to be helpful on the wiki, forums, IRC and AUR. I > like being pedantic about things > like replaces() vs. conflicts() + provides() or $startdir/src vs. $srcdir. > > In AUR I currently maintain 66 packages. My most important packages are > multimedia/game development > related though I tend to package whatever I think it useful or fun. > While I'm aware that many Archers > consider games wasteful in terms of time investment and disk space, I > think the number of votes on my > packages still make some of them same valid candidates for [community]. > See my awe-inspiring list of packages: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Svenstaro > > I'm rather interested in Python and since PyPy might become more > important in the future I will continue > to take good care of that package. > > I'm somewhat involved or at least interested in the upstream development > for some of my packages (SFML, > Ogre3D, SFML, Gobby, Bullet, Box2D, -gallium). I like trying out new > fancy things. I've used all major DEs > and a bunch of WMs. I maintain my own live distribution closely based on > Arch Linux and archiso (live.linux-gamers.net) > and in the process of creating it wrote the archiso article for the wiki. > > I care about guidelines and consistency, though I am aware that my AUR > packages aren't all fully consistent. Working on that. > On LinuxTag 2010, I openly promoted my religion using my Arch shirt > together with a fellow Archer. We tried our best > to sound like the condescending Arch jerks that we are. Just kidding. We > showed-off Arch to quite a few people who > were interested, though. We met quite a few unrelated Archers on the > fair as well but they didn't seem to have as much > Arch-esteem as we did. > > Is it true that the secret TU tower is where all the girls are kept? > > -- Sven-Hendrik
To be honest, I really have been waiting for this day. You are so amazingly active here in the mailing list and you always seem to be very competent. I wish you the very best! Schlaaaaaaaand Greetz Army
