My first contact with GNU/Linux and the FOSS ecosystem was around 1998
when I first installed a Redhat 6 system on spare i386 hardware. I
started using it as a simple NAT/router for my dial-up, later added
Samba, Apache, MySQL, ...
Around 2002 a friend told me about Debian and I installed it because it
had software packaged that I needed to compile myself on Redhat/Fedora.
I liked the idea of using the knowledge one gathers through just using
and maintaining an installation of certain software to create packages
of said software for others to used and build upon.
A few years later I was employed in web backend development and we used
Django on GNU/Debian and we had the requirement to roll-out celery, a
tool for distributed task execution. I wanted it to be installable
directly from the Debian archive like all the other components we were
using. So I stared by packaging its dependencies (python-billiard,
django-picklefield, ...).
Today I work as a senior systems administrator and my interests in FOSS
generally are with web technologies like Django, PostGIS, NodeJS and Celery.
My goal as a prospective DD is to make Debian a first class platform to
deploy a wide range of Django projects on and to make the lives of other
sysadmins easier by packaging and maintaining niche tools around ZSH and
VIM.
My first contact with GNU/Linux and the FOSS ecosystem was around 1998
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Michael Fladischer