On Wednesday I got
DAM approval and since Saturday late evening
I m officially a Debian Developer. Yay! :-)
My thanks go to
- Christoph Berg
(Myon) whom I know for more than a decade since we studied
together, and who s career in Debian was way faster than mine, but
who on the other hand probably knows me better than nobody else in
Debian which made him the perfect advocate;
- Bernd Zeimetz
(bzed) whom I know from my times at DaLUG and who was the friendliest
Application Manager I could imagine he s probably also one
of the fastest (8 days from application to AM report :-);
- Luca Capello
(gismo), who was the most demanding but also most inspiring
sponsor I ever had and who became a very good friend after we found
each other over my package conkeror.
- Arne Wichmann (Y_Plentyn) for being my first drop-in center for
Debian questions (like can I directly dist-upgrade from 2.0 to
3.0? :-);
- Martin
Zobel-Helas (zobel) who was always encouraging me to continue
exploring new sides of Debian;
- Gerfried Fuchs
(Rhonda) just for being there (and for being a package
maintainer with good relations to upstream ;-);
- my coworkers at the IT Services Group of the Department of Physics at ETH
Zurich, who always found new challenges in Debian for me to
solve;
- and all those others who offered to also advocate me (e.g.
Otavio Salvador) or sponsored my packages so far (or at least
offered to do so), e.g. Alexander Wirt (formorer), Martin F. Krafft
(madduck), Robert J rdens (jordens),
As Bernd cited in his
AM report, my earliest activity within the Debian community I can
remember was organising the Debian booth at
LinuxDay.lu 2003, where I
installed
Debian 3.0 Woody on my Hamilton Hamstation hy (a Sun
SparcStation 4 clone).
I wrote my
first bugreport in
November 2004 (#283365), probably during the
Sarge BSP in
Frankfurt. And my first Debian package was
wikipedia2text,
starting to package it
August
2005 (ITP #325417).
My only earlier documented interest in the Debian community is
subscribing to the lists debian-
apache@l.d.o and debian-emacsen@l.d.o
in June 2002.
I though remember that I started playing around with Debian 2.0 Hamm,
skipping 2.1 (for whatever reasons, I can t remember), using 2.2 quite
regularily and started to dive into with Woody which also ran on my
first ThinkPad
bijou . I installed it over WLAN with just a boot
floppy at the
Chemnitzer Linux-Tage. :-)
Anyway, this has led to what it had to lead to a new Debian
Developer. :-)
The first package I uploaded with my newly granted rights was a new
conkeror snapshot. This version should work out of the box on
Ubuntu
again, so that
conkeror in
Ubuntu should not lag that much behind
Debian
Sid anymore.
In other News
Since Wednesday I own a Nokia N900 and use it as my primary mobile
phone now. Although it s not as free as the
OpenMoko (see two other
recent posts
by Lucas Nussbaum and
by Tollef Fog Heen on
Planet Debian) it s definitely what I hoped
the OpenMoko will once become. And even if I can t run Debian natively
on the N900 (yet), it at least has a Debian chroot on it. :-)
A few weeks ago, I took over the organisation of this year s
Debian booth at
FOSDEM from Wouter Verhelst who s busy enough with
FOSDEM
organisation itself.
Last Monday the organiser of the
BSD
DevRoom at
FOSDEM asked on
#mirbsd for talk
suggestions and they somehow talked me into
giving a
talk about Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. The slides should show up during
the next days on my
Debian
GNU/kFreeBSD talks page. I hope, I ll survive that talk despite
giving more or less a talk saying Jehova! . ;-)
What a week.