Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Unix Admin wanted for Savannah Administration

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

Thanks for offering to help out :)


Here are a few pieces of information for you to check:

- https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/

  Our wiki, about the Savannah architecture, the maintenance tasks,
  some user FAQs and the future plans.

- I'm going to send you privately our old Texinfo documentation that
  is being moved to the wiki. It begins to be outdated, but read the
  main section on project approvals, it is the current reference on
  how to review projects.


Meanwhile, feel free to join #savannah on irc.freenode.net and say hi.
Check https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahTeam for the who's
who.

-- 
Sylvain

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:52:53PM +0200, Stephan Peijnik wrote:
> Hi Savannah Hackers!
> 
> As the subject of my mail should already suggest I'm contacting you in regards
> of the job 'offer' I've found on Savannah's Contributor Wanted pages.
> 
> So let me start off with a (not so) short introduction of myself.
> 
> I'm a 19 year old student living in Villach, Carinthia, Austria and studying
> IT/network engineering at the local secondary level technical college.
> My relationship to Free Software is a very special one and exists since
> the days I started out learning BASIC. I've learnt pretty much everything
> related to IT on a learning-by-doing basis and furthermore I learned
> programming by reading and modifying code - Free Software code.
> What started out of pure interested soon became my hobby and besides
> BASIC I later started learning C, PHP and C++. At some point in late 1999
> or early 2000 a Free Software operating system called GNU/Linux caught my
> attention. I started using Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 and then SuSE 6.4.
> Again I was doing it the learning-by-doing way plus using information
> that was available on the net.
> Whilst gaining programming experience doing mainly IRC (server, services)
> development for the QuakeNet IRC network I noticed how weird it felt writing
> closed-source propietary software 'for fun' and how wrong it is in the end.
> I eventually quit there. 
> In early 2006 I was yet again looking for something 'proper' to do on the net
> when I saw the FSF Europe's Fellowship program. It didn't take long until I
> joined the fellowship and am now a proud Fellow of the FSFE.
> Currently besides going to school I'm also working on one software package
> which is a PE (windows32) executable(/malware) analyzer.
> After submitting exactly that package for approval on Savannah I noticed
> that you were looking for people to help you. As I've been looking for a way
> to help the GNU project for quite some time already, I am now sitting here 
> writing this email.
> 
> Additionally I also wanted to note that I'm (quite) fluent in German, 
> English and C. :)
> 
> As for the required skills listed on the job description:
> I'm familiar with the GNU Coding Standards but am nowhere near being an expert
> on the topic. I'm willing to become one though.
> Software licensing? Well, I'm not a lawyer but know a few
> things about software licensing, especially when it comes to Free Software
> licensing. However, I'm not only willing to learn more on this topic but
> am generally interested in it.
> And finally, GNU/Linux: As I've been using GNU/Linux since early 2000 and am
> using GNU/Linux as the operating system of choice on both desktops and servers
> I'm quite familiar with it.
> 
> So, again: Why did I contact you?
> As I noted above I have been looking for a way to give the Free Software
> community something back for a while now. Joining the Fellowship of the FSFE
> was the first step and should not be the final. Helping out at Savannah
> seems to be a nice idea as I could really do something useful there. Not only
> useful for myself but rather to the community as a whole.
> 
> I hope this is enough information for now. If you need/want more
> feel free to contact me.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Stephan 'sp' Peijnik