On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:17:06 +0100 Christian Hesse <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Arch Linux community, > > this year I received an extra Christmas present: Bartłomiej > Piotrowski asked me to apply to become an Arch Linux trusted user. > Just some days later Ike Devolder had the same in mind - as I already > have a sponsor he promised to give his vote. Thanks! > > My name is Christian Hesse (aka eworm), I was born in 1982 and I live > in Germany. I work for an educational institution, with FOM > (Fachhochschule für Ökonomie und Management) being the most prominent > part. My work includes networking and Linux stuff. Most Linux servers > are Debian based, some machines even run Arch. > In my free time I fly radio controlled helicopters, take photographs, > read books, go geocaching, meet friends, ... > > My first contact with Linux was about 1998 when SuSE Linux 6.8 (or > similar, not perfectly sure) was offered by my school in a special > deal. I installed it but did not manage to get the X server running. > Some time later I bought a SuSE Linux 7.0 package, installed it and > abandoned the well known proprietary operating system. I am a free > software enthusiast since these days. > Some SuSE versions later I was annoyed by Yast overwriting my > configuration files over and over again... I decided do install LFS > (Linux from scratch) and learned a lot, changed to Gentoo to get a > package manager and finally installed Arch Linux in... Hmm... January > 2010? ... for a serious system. I felt in love with this great > distribution and its package manager pacman. To date I am perfectly > happy. My main system is still running my first Arch Linux > installation (though this installation survived at least three > notebooks...). > > I started maintaining packages in AUR [0] soon. Within four and a > half year the number increased to over 200, still counting. > I would like to move some of these to [community]: MySQL Workbench > comes in mind with 274 votes, LibreCAD and various Yubikey related > packages being other candidates. Hopefully PackageKit will be > prepared for prime time again soon. > > My main focus is on system administration, but I do have an attitude > to programming. A number of open source projects includes changes by > me, some just being bug fixes, some introducing new features. I do > not want to bore you, so I will not list them here. > I even have started some projects on my own [1][2]. Dynamic QR > code on website anybody? Or desktop notifications for journal > entries, netlink or block device changes? Some projects are specific > to Arch Linux. Want to share pacman cache on local network? Full disk > encryption with mkinitcpio and Yubikey? > > On community events I got in contact with the Linux Professional > Institute. Nowadays I am member of LPI German e.V. [3] and working as > proctor taking certification exams. > Additionally my co-author Michael Gisbers and I wrote a German book > ("Linux Essentials. Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung des Linux > Professional Institute") for Linux Essentials exam preparation, > published at Open Source Press [4]. > > I am going to marry next month, so do not expect me to be too active > until the end of January. Nevertheless I would be pleased to join the > team now and enhance Arch Linux in the future. > Thanks a lot to all of you for considering my application. > > Best Regards, > Chris > > [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=eworm > [1] https://github.com/eworm-de > [2] http://git.eworm.de/ > [3] > http://www.lpice.eu/lpi-partner/lpi-ev/die-mitglieder-des-lpi-e-v/christian-hesse.html > [4] http://www.opensourcepress.de/de/autoren/Christian-Hesse
I confirm that I sponsor Christian's application. Let the discussion period begin – Christian, I hope that you will try to find some time to reply to questions despite your wedding (and by the way, congratulations). Bartłomiej
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