Hello, I recommend to accept Christoph Biedl as a new Debian Developer, uploading. The account name is cbiedl.
* Applicant background # Free software My first contact with Linux dates back to the late nineties when this was the only affordable way to do Internet connection sharing. Open source also matched well a broad curiousity about how things actually work. So in terms of computers, operating systems, or later Internet I never was a plain user, there was always also the desire to look under the hood. More reasons came later: Dealing with bugs: Somehow I manage to trigger bugs in software pretty easily. With open source and the appropriate knowledge I usually can identify the actual cause within a short time and create patches. Learning from other people's work: Writing computer programs is an area where you'll never stop learning. Open source allows me to understand how other people have solved problems. No hazzle about licensing: Open source spares me a lot of hazzle: I am not bound to "no more than ten concurrent users" limits, not affected by an "license server is down". I can link or otherwise use other code without having to deal with royalties. Privacy: Overall, I have much more control about what the programs on my computer actually do. I don't have to blindly trust closed source vendors whether their software does things behind my back. # Debian My first Debian installation was in the year 2000, first bug reports date to somewhen in 2004. That was also about the time when I started creating my first Debian packages, mostly to distribute some private programs in a reasonable way. # Plans Keep things running. Make things better. Find bugs. Fix bugs. Look for some nice niches to do work. Regards, Sebastian Ramacher
