On 06/24/2010 09:05 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
Hey everybody,
I'd like to apply for TU. I tricked Daenyth into sponsoring me. Rocking since 1990 in Germany, I've been using Arch Linux for around two years now and since I seem to stick with it I thought I might as well become TU. I have past experience in Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and DSL as well as a few minor ones (mostly spin-offs). I currently have about 10 Arch installations in all kinds of forms, virtual, chroot, desktop, laptop, incandescent gas.
Whenever I'm not busy trying to create another cdrkit vs. cdrtools flame fest on the mailing list I'm generally trying to be helpful on the wiki, forums, IRC and AUR. I like being pedantic about things like replaces() vs. conflicts() + provides() or $startdir/src vs. $srcdir.
In AUR I currently maintain 66 packages. My most important packages are multimedia/game development related though I tend to package whatever I think it useful or fun. While I'm aware that many Archers consider games wasteful in terms of time investment and disk space, I think the number of votes on my packages still make some of them same valid candidates for [community]. See my awe-inspiring list of packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Svenstaro
I'm rather interested in Python and since PyPy might become more important in the future I will continue to take good care of that package.
I'm somewhat involved or at least interested in the upstream development for some of my packages (SFML, Ogre3D, SFML, Gobby, Bullet, Box2D, -gallium). I like trying out new fancy things. I've used all major DEs and a bunch of WMs. I maintain my own live distribution closely based on Arch Linux and archiso (live.linux-gamers.net) and in the process of creating it wrote the archiso article for the wiki.
I care about guidelines and consistency, though I am aware that my AUR packages aren't all fully consistent. Working on that. On LinuxTag 2010, I openly promoted my religion using my Arch shirt together with a fellow Archer. We tried our best to sound like the condescending Arch jerks that we are. Just kidding. We showed-off Arch to quite a few people who were interested, though. We met quite a few unrelated Archers on the fair as well but they didn't seem to have as much Arch-esteem as we did.
Is it true that the secret TU tower is where all the girls are kept?
-- Sven-Hendrik
I just re-read this entire thread (mostly for laughs) and noticed apart from the tower-girls split there has been almost no real discussion of this. Time for a discussion period? Just a suggestion.