Hi, I hereby confirm my sponsorship of Daniel.
Let the (new 14 days format) discussion period begin! Regards, Bruno P.S.: Please excuse the absence of line wrapping in Daniel e-mail, that’s my fault for having attempted to fix the reverse problem (text editor + TB line wrapping). Le 14/10/2018 à 21:49, Daniel Bermond via aur-general a écrit : > Hi, > > My name is Daniel Bermond and my alias on the AUR and forums is > dbermond[1][3]. > > Bruno Pagani (alias: ArchangeGabriel) is sponsoring my Trusted User > application. I would like to highly thank Bruno for accepting to be my > sponsor. > > I'm a Brazilian doctor (physician). Yes, my job and profession are not > related to the computing world, but since childhood I'm an enthusiast of the > computing and software world. I've beeing using Linux since many years ago, > and it's difficult to tell when I started, but it has been a long time. By > searching in the middle of some old things here I could find some old Ubuntu > CD-ROMs of the 7.04 (2007) version from the time they still shipped free > disks worldwide, so I can for sure say that I have 11 years of Linux usage at > minimum. But my initial Linux usage starts even before this, with some old > RedHat distribution that didn't run very well on my poor graphics card, at a > time that I cannot tell precisely. For many years I did the famous > distro-hopping and have used many major distributions: openSUSE, Fedora, > Mandrake/Mandriva (when they still existed), PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu and variants, > Mint and probably others. > > I have started to use Arch in 2015. At that time I was at Linux Mint and feel > the need for something better and different. I found myself in need of more > recent software, being disappointed with the Mint/Ubuntu outdated ones. I was > also very tired to reinstall the system every one (or two) year(s). When Mint > went for shipping LTS-only releases, I decided that a rolling release > distribution should be my new place. By already having many years of Linux > usage and experience in the background, Arch was everything that I was > looking for. Added the fact of being able to fully customize my system by > building packages that could be easily integrated in the system with pacman. > > After felling confident with Arch itself, I've started to contribute packages > to the AUR. I can perfectly remember my first one: ffmpeg-full-git. It was, > and still is, a pleasure to maintain it, firstly because I was in need for > it, and, secondly, because I was contributing back to the community something > that was useful for me. Things evolved quickly, I started to maintain more > and more packages that I was also in need for, while adopting other orphaned > ones, and currently I'm the maintainer of 170+ packages[2]. > > Some of the packages that I maintained were already brought into the official > repositories: > - ffnvcodec-headers > - intel-gmmlib (formerly named gmmlib on the AUR, adopted by my sponsor Bruno) > - intel-media-driver (adopted by my sponsor Bruno Pagani) > - libraqm > - nccl > - pybind11* (TU Santiago announced me that he will bring it into [community]) > > Among the years, I've studied C, x86 assembly, Python and shellscript. I'm > trying to add C++ to the list, already started it, but still need to find > more time to dedicate to it. I've made some contributions to the open source > world. > I have a project of my own called screencast[4], which is a command line > interface to record a X11 desktop using FFmpeg, having support for offline > recording, live streaming and the capability of adding some effects. It's > written in pure POSIX/portable shellscript. Besides this, I've made a few > commits here and there into the following open source projects: caffe2[5] > (now on pytorch github repository), intel gstreamer media SDK[6][7] and intel > media sdk[8]. So I also try to contribute back to some upstream projects when > my not-so-wide programming skills allow me. I also report bugs to the > upstream open source projects for packages which I maintain on the AUR if I > encounter some that affects the building process or my direct usage. > > I would like to become a Trusted User to be able to contribute to the Arch > community as much as I can. > > I would like to bring the following packages into [community]: > - advancecomp > - kvazaar > - intel-media-sdk > - libmysofa > - openh264 > - shine > - vmaf > > I'm also willing to co-maintain my already mentioned old AUR packages. It > would be a pleasure. > > I think that's all. Thanks to everyone that is reading and analysing my > application. > > Best regards, > Daniel Bermond > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/dbermond > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=M&K=dbermond > [3] https://github.com/dbermond/ > [4] https://github.com/dbermond/screencast/ > [5] https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/commits?author=dbermond > [6] https://github.com/intel/gstreamer-media-SDK/commits?author=dbermond > [7] > https://github.com/intel/gstreamer-media-SDK/commits/topic_linux_and_window?author=dbermond > [8] https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK/commits?author=dbermond > >
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