Finally, it happened! I became a Debian Developer!

I wish to thank everybody involved in this process: from those who helped me in my initial packaging efforts, to who actually created the account.

Many thanks to the pkg-perl team for accepting newbies and helping them: props to Damyan Ivanov, Gregor Herrmann, Gunnar Wolf!

Thanks to Debian-Med and Debian CLI: they always believed in me, and I had a great time in these teams. A special thanks goes to Andreas Tille, who advocated my NM candidature.

Thanks to my two AMs, Bart Martens and Bernd Zeimetz. Even if my NM was long, difficult and not so flawless, it all went good, at the end :).

A special thanks to Enrico Zini: he was the first DD signing my GPG key, thus allowing me to have more "rights" (being a DM), and experience some more responsibility than I previously had. Thanks to his "Become a DD. NOW!" right after checking my ID in Palermo -- Enrico, it finally happened!

Thanks to Christoph Berg, Ron Lee, and Stephen Gran, which handled the final steps of the overall process.

And now, dapal is here to break the world. Be warned!

Addio, nonno.

Eheh, I'm getting older... 22 today!

I just wanted to put down some of the important things happened to me this year...

• sentimental life: epic fail... not really in the mood of talking about it;

• University life: I finally passed two exams which blocked me for all the previous year: yay! Now I'm being stuck with other things -- not too much enthusiasm in some courses...

• Debian life: I finally had my GPG key signed by TWO Debian Developers: I became DM, and had upload rights on non-NEW packages. Great! We had Lenny released. Uber-Great!

• misc life: I just tried getting more people-friendly, more active (meaning being less lazy), less nerd (I probably failed in this particular aspect), better, in a word.

Wishes for the 22-23 development cycle :

• finally becoming a DD! (I'm NM since Dec-2007..)
• trying to pass many exams as possible at University
• seriously fall in love (I think I've already started this with the girl I'm with now...)
• misc improvements (sorry, you can't send patches... or yes?)

Happy birthday to me!

This is my first post on Planet. Great day!

Here's a presentation of myself. I'm David Paleino, I'm 21 and studying Odontology in Palermo, Italy. Yes, I'm Italian.

Some might know me because of my past "key-signing problems": that was a big issue, indeed. Anyway.

I've started contributing to Debian some time ago, initially in pkg-perl team. Then I joined debian-med, and I'm still in that team. Being a dentist in future, I wanted to help the "medical" section of Debian, even though there isn't any software I could use in my future work. I'll work on that, eventually.

I've developed, together with Andreas Tille, Debian Med's website and "scripts": those are intended to be used also for other Debian Blends (formerly CDDs).

Now I'm also active in pkg-mono: I'm helping in the transition to Mono 2.0, and that's a big task.

I also maintain some packages, even some more or less popular ones (gthumb, john, gnome-rdp, bash-completion).

I'm concerned with Free Software also outside Debian-specific work: I help my LUG (SputniX) in organizing various FOSS-related events. Incidentally, tomorrow there's the LinuxMeeting, and on Sunday we have JavaDay. Everyone's welcome!

I definitely hope I won't annoy you too much with my posts!

Vero

Daniela, sono tuo!

Oggi siamo usciti per vedere un'auto.. ecco cosa arriverà, siori e siore, prossimamente nelle migliori strade di Mazara e Palermo!...

Auguri Dalila!

Sono davvero contento per te! E via con la prima laurea della classe 86-87!

Ancora David?! Ancora? Basta. Hai ricevuto tante di quelle delusioni ultimamente, che non riesci più a contarle. E oggi l'ultima. O no?

Che ti ho fatto di male per non parlarmi più? Uno non può esprimere il proprio pensiero? Cos'è, "c'ho provato" troppo? Non mi pare.. non ti ho più chiesto di uscire da non so quanto tempo. E tu hai regolarmente rifiutato, quando te l'ho chiesto. Non mi pare assolutamente di aver esagerato..

E meno male che di me ti fidavi, e che mi volevi bene.. spero ci risentiremo.

Ciao, Mel.

Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.

Blaise Pascal

(transl. "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.")

Ecco cosa ha portato la notte di Capodanno:

Questa era una foto di quest'estate, all'incontro dei giovani con il Papa a Loreto 2007. Qualche modifica con Gimp... ed ecco il risultato!