[aur-general] TU application: Chris Brannon

[Allan McRae]

Chris Brannon wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> I wish to become an ArchLinux Trusted User.  To that end, here
> is a bit of information pertaining to me.
>
> I started using Linux in the summer of 2000.  Before that time, I used
> Unix shell accounts offered by various Internet service providers.
> I've been using some flavor of *nix since 1995.
> I'm blind, and I've always worked from a text console.  Dialup Unix shell
> accounts had mostly vanished by 2000, so I installed Slackware.
>
> I used Slackware until early 2007, and I learned a great deal about Linux
> in the process.  I could describe my reasons for dropping Slackware, but
> I won't.  It's a fine distribution, and the answer to the "which distribution
> is best" question is mostly subjective.
> After looking at several distros, I settled on Arch in September 
> of 2008.  Moving to Arch was easy for me, because of my years of experience
> with Slackware.
>
> Currently, I maintain 8 packages in unsupported, and this number is growing.
> See the following URL for my work:
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=cmb
> My username on the BBS, AUR, and wiki is cmb.
>
> I want to do my part to make ArchLinux more accessible to the blind.
> My first order of business is to submit two packages to the community
> repository: speakup and espeakup.
> These two packages provide one reliable method of supplying spoken output from
> the text console under Linux.
>
> I will endeavor to faithfully represent the interests of the whole
> ArchLinux user community, not just those of the tiny subset who are blind.
>
> Allan McRae is my sponsor.  Thank you Allan.
>
> With kind regards,
> -- Chris
>   

And here is my offical sponsorship message.  Let the discussion period 
"begin"...

Allan