Hey everyone! My name is Fabian Bornschein, I'm an IT-service-technician from germany and I would like to join the group of package maintainers. Let's start with the lengthy and less exciting parts of my Linux journey. My first Arch installation took place around 2010. I believe it was due to the fact that the other Linux distribution wasn't functioning properly on my new laptop. A few months later, I switched to Kubuntu and stuck with it for several years. During that time, I was heavily involved in designing various components for KDE Plasma such as themes, icons, and more. Thanks to this work and some contributions[0], I was invited to become a founding member of the KDE Visual Design Group[1]. Unfortunately, I didn't contribute much during my time there before eventually moving on. So, around 2015/16-ish, I found my way back to Arch, just to jump ship yet again over to (oh no!) Manjaro. After some time, lots of talks and small contributions, I ended up as the go-to person for maintaining the Radeon+AMDGPU[2]/FGLRX[3] setup scripts. Later on, I took charge of all those setup scripts for open-source drivers through "mhwd". Another project that kept me busy was my re-do of Manjaro's Steam client[4]. In late 2017 or early 2018, I left Manjaro and returned to Arch. However, to this day, I'm still the creator and owner of the Manjaro (Community) Telegram group[5] :P Now that I'm back on Arch, I do help people on various platforms, such as Fedi/Mastodon, Matrix, and Telegram. You can find me using my 'fabiscafe' alias. In the last 2-3 years, I've been working on another project: FCGU. It's an Arch Linux repo for GNOME pre-releases[6]. I started it because testing GNOME pre-releases on Arch was tough, and the AUR wasn't suitable for something as big as GNOME. What began as a personal venture grew when others wanted to test it too. I reached out to find some people who wanted to provide mirrors, and now it's a thing! :) The PKGBUILDs are nowadays on Arch gitlab[7]. In my rare spare time, I try to relax, spend time with family, or simply be with friends. I enjoy Anime/Manga and, of course, a good cup of coffee \o/. So, what do I want to do for Arch? Essentially, it's pretty much the same as what I'm currently doing for FCGU. Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) asked me (twice already, sorry about that) if I'm willing to help with GNOME in Arch and if I'd like to incorporate the FCGU work into gnome-unstable. I believe it would benefit everyone if Arch could provide official unstable releases of GNOME in a repository. On the flip side, this might also speed up the availability of new stable releases on Arch - and thus, potentially reduce user spam on Reddit. :D So, in a nutshell, I want to: - Offer GNOME unstable releases (beta, rc) in gnome-unstable - Assist in transitioning them to Arch once they become stable versions My sponsors are Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) and Torsten Keßler (tpkessler). Many thanks to both of you! Now I hope the Manjaro stuff doesn't exclude me directly and thanks for reading all of this. :) Fabian Bornschein - fabiscafe [0] https://jgrulich.cz/2014/02/27/plasma-nm-is-finally-out/ [1] https://wheeldesign.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-visual-design-group-short-intro... [2] https://github.com/manjaro/mhwd-db/commit/2bc57fddcc081ded1d3d701b83f6e7029d... [3] https://github.com/manjaro/packages-extra/commit/b867bd3c26f4f3672889d1deac8... [4] https://github.com/manjaro/packages-community/pull/252 [5] https://t.me/Manjaro [6] https://codeberg.org/fabiscafe/fcgu [7] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/fabiscafe [aur] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/fabiscafe