Hi, I'd like to submit my application to become a Trusted User. I've been sponsored by Balló György (aka City-busz). You can find my public key here: * http://pool.sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x654B877A0864983E I'm a forty something information technology professional and Linux enthusiast. I live in Hampshire, England, with my wife and daughter. I have some grey hair, a beer belly and I'm a killer systems administrator. I'd like to join the team because I'd really like to bring MATE to the official Arch Linux [community] repository. I've been a member of the MATE team for some months now and in that time I've: * Become the principle Arch Linux package maintainer * Got MATE 1.6 stable on Arch Linux * Created a new build script to automate package builds * Created new build hosts to build MATE packages for i686 and x86_64 * Created new build hosts to build MATE packages for armv6h and armv7h * Signed the unofficial MATE package repositories * Been given root shell accounts on all the MATE infrastructure servers * Created a new website for the MATE project (http://mate-desktop.org) * Become a MATE Forum moderator and administrator * Taken ownership of every MATE package in the AUR * Started MATE 1.7 packaging for Arch Linux * Gone on many bug hunting expeditions Here are all the relevant links regarding my work with the MATE team. * http://mate-desktop.org * http://mate-desktop.org/blog/2013-11-16-mate-1.6-packages-for-arch-linux/ * https://github.com/mate-desktop/archlinux-packages * https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop.org * http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewforum.php?f=4 * http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/archlinux_custom_repo * http://repo.mate-desktop.org/archlinux/ Here's some additional background about myself. I've been running Linux distributions since 1995, I've transitioned through Slackware, Redhat, Crux, Debian/Ubuntu and settled on Arch Linux nearly 2 years ago. I dev using Shell, Python, PHP, SQL, HTML/CSS and know enough C/C++ to bug hunt. I started using CVS in the late 1990s and moved to Subversion then Bazaar and now Git. Some examples of my personal projects. * https://github.com/flexiondotorg/ArchInstaller * https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6 * https://github.com/flexiondotorg/nullserv By day I work for Flight Data Services. I'm the technical lead and created the business plan that led to us Open Sourcing most of our technologies. * https://github.com/FlightDataServices * http://www.flightdatacommunity.com/ Most of my contribution to Arch Linux has been through the AUR and you'll find me lurking in #archlinux@freenode. I contributed my first package to the AUR on the first week I started using Arch Linux. Since then I've adopted a few packages and added a selection of my own. * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=flexiondotorg In addition to MATE I'd be interested in migrating some of my other packages to [community], for example: * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bzr-fastimport/ * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/finalterm-git/ (when stable) * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-nss-mdns/ * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-xulrunner/ * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libaacs/ * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nullmailer/ I've contributed to countless Open Source projects over the years and I am a member of my local LUG. When I'm not geeking out I play with my daughter and go running. Like all great Open Source contributors I scuba dive ;-) Oh yeah, I love Arch Linux. -- Regards, Martin.