Hi, I thought about applying as a TU for some time now, I think the selection of packages provided by Arch is already great but there is always space for additional quality software in community and I hope to help with that. Here's a little background about myself: I'm a 27yr old italian guy, working as a embedded developer in a broadband company. I started to use linux with Corel Linux, then I passed to Mandrake, but I hate the RPM packaging system so I switched to Debian, mainly for its stability. In 2006 I became a Gentoo Developer [1] (Member of net-im, ppc and voip herds), Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/BSD and Gentoo/FreeBSD deputy lead for 2 years. I'm using ArchLinux since 2009 and I think it's the better distribution out there. Like I said, I am a developer at heart and I released some opensource applications [2] and I helper with several project, as you can see in my ohloh profile [3]. I am a confident developer who loves the C language, but I also use SH scripting (both POSIX and Bash) and other languages. I selected an initial list of AUR PKGBUILDs I plan to move to community: - netselect - httrack - httperf You can see on the AUR [4] that I maintain already a pretty long list of PKGBUILDs including the popular sshpass and ragel. Andrea Scarpino is sponsoring my application as a trusted user. If you have any question, just ask. Thanks! [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/149111?id=149111 [2] https://github.com/drizztbsd/ [3] https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/drizzt [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=tredaelli