-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I recommend to accept Miguel Landaeta as a Debian Developer.
1. Identification & Account Data - -------------------------------- First name: Miguel Middle name: - Last name: Landaeta Key fingerprint: 4CB7FE1E280ECC90F29A597E6E608B637D8967E9 Account: nomadium 2. Background - ------------- I was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Nowadays I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I am 28 years old and I work in a start-up company as Lead Devops Engineer doing research and development about cloud computing and automation topics. I have used Debian for about 8 years (since sarge!) and GNU/Linux since more than 10 years ago (e.g. early Red Hat and Slackware). My first contact with computers was during my childhood in the 90s when an uncle gave me an IBM 286 as a gift. Since this was before Internet went mainstream, I only could learn about DOS, BASIC and play very cool videogames from that era. My interest in free software began in 2001 some months before beginning to attend University in order to study Computer Engineering, I remember trying to wrap my head around FreeBSD and Linux, and finally decided for the latter. During my second year at the University I applied to join to a laboratory under the jurisdiction of Computer Science department, where interested students have the opportunity to administer real world IT infrastructure while they learn about UNIX operative systems. During those years I began using Red Hat, later I migrated to Slackware and finally settled with Debian. I evolved in the laboratory from apprentice to lead operator. During my time there I was exposed to so many technologies, services, architectures and wonderful/skillful people, it was like a second career to me and in that place I learned the value of free software. One of my last projects there was to implement a migration of workstations and servers from Fedora to Debian! After I got my diploma as Computer Engineer, I joined a start-up founded by people from my University. I joined as sysadmin but the position evolved and so I was in charge of discussing, designing and implementing their IT infrastructure using cloud computing. Almost all those servers that my team manage there are currently running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Finally, after several years as user, power user and administrator, I got interested in how to retribute a little of what I learned during all this time so I joined debian-devel in 2006 and with just reading what happens there I began to learn about the community, how things are developed, etc. I was totally mind-blown with the openness and the workflow, it was truly open and very different to what I could observe with other distributions. My first contribution to Debian was a NMU for a very easy to fix FTBFS bug in some random C/C++ library during the freeze of lenny. Later, I adopted jabberd14 since it was orphaned. I updated it and it was included in squeeze where I maintained it until two years ago or so (when it was very obvious it was dead upstream so I had to orphan it again and ask for removal from the archive). Also, I began to notice many J2EE free software used by myself and by ocassional clients but not available in Debian, so I joined Java Team and began to package many useful software like Spring Framework and maintain agile languages in the JVM, like Groovy. Besides JVM stuff, I also have an interest in Python, so I maintain some small packages related with networking protocols like DNS (namebench) or modules to access Twitter web services / API (tweepy). I'm member of Debian Python Modules and Applications teams. Since so far I have gained a background with system administration, infrastructure and cloud computing, I have an interest in Debian infrastructure, so joining DSA in the future could be a good fit for me. Also I would like to continue contributing with Debian with the goal of make it the best free software platform for server side programming (Python, JVM, J2EE, etc). Currently my biggest projects are to package Grails framework and Groovy related software for Debian and to make Debian the distribution of choice in cloud environments. If time permits, I would like to contribute doing more QA tasks. I have done a fair bit of QA work in Java team, and I would like to contribute with QA outside my team. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlJ2nZ4ACgkQt2NXKBU/+UCYEgCfTJv3RJ+PWTr2+e61zrWDzjzC roMAoIQXjhFH9UdzTSYKReFzp1AF1aXm =CQG4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
