This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 26 Oct 2003. 3 applicants became maintainers.
Joachim Breitner <nomeata> I made contact with debian in April 2002. My hard drive crashed, and I wanted to set up a system as fast as possible to do my e-mails. I had no CD of any OS available in that moment (I was on a student exchange in Washington State) and I heard about the good netinstall capabilites of Deiban, so I downloaded a 30MB CD-Image and installed debian without much care on my workstation, since I tought it was only a temporary installation. But even then, debian was so amazingly stable and fit perfectly my needs, it't the installation I still use, and at last without the need for commercial software. Later I migrated my server to debian and moved my brother to using debian. I also took over the by now abandonned internet cafe in my school, installed debian and set it up using thin diskless X-Clients. I also remotely installed debian on a rented Server (puretec.de rootserver) for a gamesever, because I did not want to use the preinstalled SuSE. Joachim maintains gnometab. Daniel Stone <daniels> I am a part-time hacker on (largely) open source software, when I'm not busy being a student. I have been involved with many aspects of many projects - maintaining apache2 and most of KDE within Debian, as well as co-maintaining XFree86; upstream work on several components of KDE, including a small amount of work on the build system; and also minor co-ordination work within the Xwin project (now mostly absorbed by freedesktop.org). I also spend quite some time co-ordinating with the Gentoo and Red Hat XFree86 maintainers to try and keep our patch sets quite in sync with each other, and share the workload - I set up [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Mike Harris. I was first introduced to Linux by my father at age 12 - although he was/is a rabid NT fan, he encouraged me to give something different a shot. "Something different" turned out to be Slackware 2.2 from an InfoMagic CD; although I didn't like Slackware and spent all night playing paranoia because I couldn't get X working, I was converted and bought Red Hat Linux 5.1 the next day, eventually transitioning to Debian. Daniel maintains dbtcp, dbus, libapache2-mod-xslt and is part of the XSF. Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk> I am graduated in journalism but never wanted to work in this area. For three years now, I am a trainee in Internet Programming. I teach algorithmics, database analysis, linux, xml and java. I am Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform and working on the dev certification. I work at the University but am not researcher nor Professor! My audience is unemployed people (the program is full day-time and longs 6 month). I do use Debian for about three years now (two years without dual boot! ;)) at work (x86) and about a year on my G3 at home (no dual boot!). I am very interresting in java, xml (also docbook) and web services. I love Debian specially for the way it is developed, the social contract and the free software guide lines. Also, I am 31 years old and promote the use of Debian in our trainee program <http://www.stefi.fapse.ulg.ac.be/webco/communique.html>. I also organize a Linux Copy Party with Debian installation amoung other things <http://vbstefi60.fapse.ulg.ac.be/lcp/prog/2003/avril-26.html>. Arnaud maintains libdtdparser-java, libgnujaxp-java, libnsuml-java, and libxt-java. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
