Evangelos Foutras ha scritto:
Hello,
My name is Evangelos Foutras. I'm 20 years old and currently a student of Informatics at the University of Piraeus in Athens, Greece.
I had my first taste of GNU/Linux a few years back with Mandrake 9.0 (if I remember correctly) that came with a magazine I bought. I didn't know much about computers back then and gave up quickly. Since then, I used Windows (2000 and then XP) pretty much until 2007. At that time I discovered Ubuntu and started messing around with it, setting my system to dual-boot XP and Ubuntu. I gradually increased the time spent on Ubuntu especially during the summer of the same year, and finally dumped Windows all together on Oct 20 2007. I've never looked back since.
During this one and a half year, I've tried several distributions, including Fedora and Debian; they were alright. I really liked that Fedora shipped with very up-to-date software and I still use Debian for server environments. My first Arch installation was done this spring but for some reason I can't recall, I went back to Ubuntu the following day. My next Arch encounter I owe to Alex Cartwright, founder of TangoCMS[1]. He had recently switched to Arch himself and urged me to give it another try. This time I got to understand and love the Arch Way, so I didn't bounce. "Love at second sight", I guess.
Currently, I maintain 8 packages in AUR. Two of them feature (crappy) software I've authored, two others are new contributions and the rest are orphans I've adopted. I'm somewhat experienced at C, Python, PHP and Bash, skills which have aided in handling issues that arise when packaging a piece of software.
Let me say that I'm amazed at the quality of the distribution as a whole, and the tools that have been developed for it. The community is wonderful as well, composed of smart and skillful people who enjoy being of assistance to others. I'd like to get more involved in Arch and help wherever I can; therefore I'm applying for TUship. Daenyth has offered to be my sponsor and I sincerely thank him for that. :)
Feel free to ask me any questions you might have.
Kind regards,
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Hi Evangelos, you seems to be known for me(maybe on IRC @ #archlinux ;-D). Well, I reviewed your packages and I found this: * Remove this (vim tag) # vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et: from your packages. * gcompris, gnome-hearts, movic, xdotool: Maintainer tag is just for TUs (if this become a reality then you can change again to Maintainer, but consider to do this change to the next release) * gnalert: license is an array, change license="GPL" by license=('GPL') Now let me ask few questions, what are your plans becoming a TU? Adopting orphaned packages in community?, move some AUR packages to community (which ones?), help developing/patching AUR?. Btw you missed to point us to your AUR link or at least your nick in AUR (foutrelis), i guessed by your e-mail address ;). Good luck! -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) http://www.angvp.com