Hello, ArchLinux Tus Xyne has agreed to sponsor me as a TU. I am very excited at the potential opportunity to become more directly involved with the development of ArchLinux. I atteneded Southern Utah University (SUU) where I studied Computer Science. While at SUU I set up one of the first American ArchLinux mirrors, a mirror which is still in operation – locke.suu.edu. At SUU I also worked as a research assistant and developed a (now defunct) Linux distribution based on Arch called Axiom Linux for rediculously parallel compute clusters. It was based on Larch and involved a modified Arch installer, (this was before the aif days). Since then I have worked as a trainer for Red Hat, then a systems software developer for a United States DOD contractor and I am presently employed as a Sr Systems Engineer at Beyond Oblivion. My contributions to Arch so far have been: Created and maintained a working puppet package for Arch, and updated the existing puppet pacman code. Ported libguestfs to Arch, this involved working with the libguestfs developers to create a build port specific to Arch since the build process requires the creation of a specialized Arch Qemu Vm image. Set up MooseFS support for Arch – This is a VERY cool project that I strongly recommend people take a look at : moosefs.org I have been working on standardizing the Ocaml packages for Arch and currently maintain about 25 Ocaml packages. I am the author of the Varch Project: http://code.google.com/p/varch/ My packages and project staging repo is at: http://code.google.com/p/enterprise-archlinux/ I am working on a project that I hope will greatly benefit Arch called quarters: http://code.google.com/p/quarters/ It is still sparse, I just started a re architect And my packages for you to look over: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=thatch45 All in all, I am deeply passionate about open source and Linux, I believe in the pragmatic approach to Linux and have continued to find Arch as one of, if the the, superior Linux distribution out there today, not only in principal, but also in engineering. My hope is to assist in bringing ArchLinux further into the forefront of the overall Linux community and to continue to port enterprise grade software to Arch. Hopefully my current contributions suffice to allow me to work as a TU, if there is anything in my contributions or packages that needs improvement, or if there is anything else I can do to improve my standing, please let me know so I can make my application as spotless as possible. -thatch45 -Thomas S Hatch