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 recent software, being disappointed with the Mint/Ubuntu outdated ones.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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