Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andreas has contributed to Debian in a number of areas, from packaging software, NMUing buggy software, and filing bug reports, often with patches. He is interested in becoming an official maintainer, to make maintaining his packages easier, among other things. He says: "Official maintainer status would ease my work as maintainer, sponsoring works and is a great safeguard, but it is a extra work. And sometimes I'd like to use e.g. a PowerPC machine for test-builds."
Andreas currently maintains newsx, co-maintains cdrtools and is working on exim4. Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I am a 22 year old molecular biology student. I have been using Linux for the last 5 years, and Debian exclusively for the last three. I originally installed Debian after I decided that it was the best OS for me after reading the DFSG and Social Contract--I had great agreement with the philosophy behind Debian. The reputation of Debian for being the best distribution (technically) was also an important factor. I briefly installed 1.3, but my first real use was of slink (2.2r2), which I installed to learn computer programming in C. Hopefully I'll find time soon to get to grips with C++ and either Perl or Python and start using GTK+. Quite soon after starting programming, I wanted to package my software for Debian, mainly for convenience, and I also put it up for public download. I read the New Maintainers' Guide and started using debhelper. I have now got quite a bit of experience using the Debian packaging tools, and I feel that I would be able to use my knowledge to contribute to the Debian Project. I intend to be a packager. I am the upstream author and maintainer of the gimp-print Debian packaging (it is also available within the upstream tarball), and so aim to take over the packaging of gimp-print after the release of woody (by agreement with Eric Sharkey). I also have ITPed IJS (#141476). In addition, I have been looking at cleaning up buildd for inclusion in Debian (there was a thread on debian-devel 1-2 weeks back)." Roger currently maintains gimp-print and ijs. Kenneth J. Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "If you'd like a little more background about who I am... I'm 27, and I live just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. I have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (double-major in Computer Science) from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I work for Northwest Airlines in their Middleware Services department. Most of what I do for Northwest is C and shell programming, but I'll be moving toward a Java development support role as we roll out our J2EE infrastructure later this year." Kenneth currently maintains babygimp, libhtml-fromtext-perl, liblingua-en-numbers-ordinate-perl, liblingua-preferred-perl, liblog-tracemessages-perl, libsort-versions-perl, libterm-progressbar-perl, libtk-tablematrix-perl, nbio, and xmltv. Martin Loschwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The first time i got contacted with GNU/Linux was when i were 12 years old - i didn't really know what i was doing at that time. Someone told me about a "cool operating System" and i just wanted to test it because i was bugged by Windows. However, my first distribution was SuSE and it was soon completely destroyed. Then a friend, Dennis Koegel, told me about a "wonderfull linux distribution", its name was debian. I tried it, and, declaredly, at first time i had big problems but soon much things became clear and i started to use debian on my workstation and enjoyed it. A half year ago, i became also interested in developing debian. Soonly I created my first packages for "gidentd" which was written by Joern Heissler. Bastian "waldi" Blank checked those packages for me and uploaded them into Debian. Later, i created the "irssi-scripts"-Package in coorperation with Pekka Knuutila and i also adopted the "xfce"-package which was RFA. Since that, i adopted some more packages, e.g. "ircd". I introduced also some new packages, e.g. "kmusicdb", "libdbmusic", "ircd-irc2" and "cdbakeoven". At the moment, I'm writing articles for german "LinuxUser" or "LinuxMagazin" magazines from time to time." Martin currently maintains dbh, ecartis, gidentd, gtk2-engines-xfce, ircd, ircd-irc2, ircd-ircu, irssi-scripts, irssi-snapshot, kmusicdb, libdbmusic, libxfcegui4, nedit, qt-x11-free, xfce, xfce4, xfce4-utils, xfdeskmenu4, xffm4, xfwm4, and xirssi. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
