Hello, my name is Alexander Epaneshnikov. and I'd like to join the Trusted Users team to further improve the Arch Linux accessibility for people with disabilities. I am sponsored by David Runge <dvzrv> and Sven-Hendrik Haase <svenstaro>. I started using Arch Linux in 2018 and since then it has become my main distribution. I also do my best to help blind people learn about arch and start using it. regarding minimum basic requirements: * I know how to script some things. I use zsh on a daily basis, but I can work with bash / sh too. * I maintain a few packages in the AUR[1]. I also have a couple of pkgbuilds on github[2]. * I definitely know how to google. (using surfraw for that) * my involvement with the arch mailing lists and IRC is rather low, but I am very active in blind specific lists and IRC channels. There I help users, create bug reports about a11y related problems for projects and of course talk about Arch. I can be found on irc on oftc and liberachat under the alex19EP nickname. As I already said, I would like to become a TU to further improve the appeal of Arch for people with disabilities, so I want to maintain packages that are related to a11y: * lightdm-slick-greeter - the most accessible lightdm greeter. * rhvoice - Open source speech synthesizer. (I am one of the upstream maintainers) * fenrir - A user space console screen reader written in python3 Additionally, I would like to move some packages which are popular and that I use personally to the [community] repository. * etc-update * glulxe-term * bitwarden and bitwarden-cli - eh electron I know, but it is the only cross-platform password manager which is accessible. * hunspell-ru * magic-wormhole * yadm I can also help maintain packages which are already in community: * espeakup - I am now the upstream maintainer for this project. * espeak-ng * matrix-synapse My biggest and perhaps most significant contribution to Arch is the addition of accessibility features for blind people to archiso [3] [4]. I have also written and kept documentation for installing Arch with accessibility options [5] up-to-date. my other open source contributions: I maintain RHVoice [6] and espeakup[7]. Gladly I will answer any comments or questions. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=3D0&SeB=3DM&K=3Dalex19EP [2] https://github.com/alex19EP/pkgbuilds [3] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso/-/merge_requests/79 [4] https://archlinux.org/news/accessible-installation-medium/ [5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_with_accessibility_optio... [6] https://github.com/rHVoice/rHVoice [7] https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup Arch project accounts: Wiki: Alex19EP Forums: alex19EP (inactive there) Flyspray: https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/28985 -- Sincerely, Alexander