Self-Introduction: Philippe Moret

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Philippe Moret wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Philippe Moret I'm living in Lugano, in the italian part of
> Switzerland. I'm also sometimes in the french part during the week-ends.
> I'm currently a second year PhD student in computer science at the
> University of Lugano.
>
> Your goals in the Fedora Project
>
> Well, I'd like to help the open source community by contributing to a
> project, even if I don't know how much time I'll be able to spend for
> this ;-)
>
> Which packages do you want to see published?
>
> I noticed that Amaya was not anymore maintained and with a friend who's
> already involved in the project (Thibault North) I've tried to package
> the new version, this will probably be my first contribution. Otherwise
> I'm intersted in Java in general and I will probably help with
> java-related packages. I have also an interest in photography, so
> related software would also interest me. And hopefully I will be able to
> release part of my research work as a free software :D ...
>
> Historical qualifications
> MSc in CS, on my way to have a PhD...
>
>
> What other projects have you worked on in the past?
> Nothing serious, a few toy-projects...
>
> What computer languages and other skills do you know?
> I'm more at ease with Java, a bit of C, sh and Perl for the everyday
> needs, a little bit of LISP...
>
> Why should we trust you?
> Why not ?
>
> pub   1024D/86B5069E 2006-01-09 [expires: 2011-01-08]
> Key fingerprint = BCDA 4F4B D2FB D8A0 C75B  24DB A73E E73A 86B5 069E
> uid Philippe Moret
> sub  2048g/CEB904B8 2006-01-09 [expires: 2011-01-08]
>
> I will just need a sponsor to set up my Fedora Account by signing the
> CLA and all that.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Philippe Moret
>

Welcome to Fedora community. There are a few steps each of us (well,
at least most of us) went through to become sponsored.
Basically you need to show that you can perform certain tasks such a
packaging some software and cooperate with the reviewer who's going to
review your package. The reviewer must be a sponsor for the first
timers.
Doing some reviews of the packages from other packagers will
familiarize you with Fedora procedures and show that you can follow
the basic guidelines.

More information can be found at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/HowToGetSponsored

Let the games begin.

Orcan