On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Thomas S Hatch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, ArchLinux Tus > > Xyne has agreed to sponsor me as a TU. I am very excited at the potential > opportunity to become more directly involved with the development of > ArchLinux. > > I atteneded Southern Utah University (SUU) where I studied Computer Science. > While at SUU I set up one of the first American ArchLinux mirrors, a mirror > which is still in operation – locke.suu.edu. At SUU I also worked as a > research assistant and developed a (now defunct) Linux distribution based on > Arch called Axiom Linux for rediculously parallel compute clusters. It was > based on Larch and involved a modified Arch installer, (this was before the > aif days). > > Since then I have worked as a trainer for Red Hat, then a systems software > developer for a United States DOD contractor and I am presently employed as > a Sr Systems Engineer at Beyond Oblivion. > > My contributions to Arch so far have been: > > Created and maintained a working puppet package for Arch, and updated the > existing puppet pacman code. > > Ported libguestfs to Arch, this involved working with the libguestfs > developers to create a build port specific to Arch since the build process > requires the creation of a specialized Arch Qemu Vm image. > > Set up MooseFS support for Arch – This is a VERY cool project that I > strongly recommend people take a look at : moosefs.org > > I have been working on standardizing the Ocaml packages for Arch and > currently maintain about 25 Ocaml packages. > > I am the author of the Varch Project: > > http://code.google.com/p/varch/ > > My packages and project staging repo is at: > > http://code.google.com/p/enterprise-archlinux/ > > I am working on a project that I hope will greatly benefit Arch called > quarters: > > http://code.google.com/p/quarters/ > > It is still sparse, I just started a re architect > > And my packages for you to look over: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=thatch45 > > All in all, I am deeply passionate about open source and Linux, I believe in > the pragmatic approach to Linux and have continued to find Arch as one of, > if the the, superior Linux distribution out there today, not only in > principal, but also in engineering. > > My hope is to assist in bringing ArchLinux further into the forefront of the > overall Linux community and to continue to port enterprise grade software to > Arch. > > Hopefully my current contributions suffice to allow me to work as a TU, if > there is anything in my contributions or packages that needs improvement, or > if there is anything else I can do to improve my standing, please let me > know so I can make my application as spotless as possible. > > -thatch45 > > -Thomas S Hatch >
quarters seems like an interesting project. Also, can you give examples of enterprise grade software you would bring into [community], are you talking about the packages you currently maintain? Overall awesome, and +1 from me once you answer my question =)
