DanielHolbach

Daniel Holbach

I'm a 26 year old computer sciences student in Dortmund, Germany.

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Contact

• eMail: dh@mailempfang.de

• Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/lifeguardasleep/

• Nickname on IRC: dholbach

• Jabber: dholbach@jabber.ccc.de

Bio & Interests

Since I grew up with computers around me, it seems I was always interested in making things work on computers.

Bio

Long ago I started programming in Pascal, Delphi and Basic. *shudder* Around 1996, I became active in http://unitopia.de - a MUD where I soon learned LPC (object oriented C obfuscation) and became infected with the OpenSource virus.

In 2000 I installed Debian and really meant it to use it, it was great: finally a Linux distro that was actively maintained and had a working package management. I followed the general discussions, wrote bug reports to Debian and Gnome, advocated Linux in my near environment, became part of the translator group gnome-de.org and active contributor to the UNIX working group at my university.

As part of my studies, I currently develop protosquared (http://protosquared.berlios.de) and (http://libaccustom.berlios.de) - a system to transparently store user preferences on a (very modular and configurable) server. I'm therefore interested in C++ and C very much and would love to do something worthwhile like maintaining packages.

Interests

I'd love to actively help in the Ubuntu project by:

• maintaining packages and discussing changes with Debian maintainers,
• keeping package versions recent and
• making packages standards-compliant,
• learning Python and give the desktop some GUI helper application love.

Now that I'm part of the [:MOTU] crew, I take care of Ubuntu Universe, fix bugs, maintain some packages myself and invite everyone to join the party.

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