About me

Hi :)

I'm [http://www.hanskalabs.net David Paleino], I was born on March 13, 1987 in a small city in southern Italy, Mazara_del_Vallo (also [wiki:Mazara_del_Vallo here]), and since the age of 6 I've fallen in love with computers. I've started using Microsoft DOS 6, Microsoft Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, and so on, until Microsoft Windows XP. In the meanwhile, I was also tasting the beauty of GNU/Linux systems (I started using Debian since version 2.0), but I always kept a "dual-boot" system (yes, I was kinda scared of losing my files).

Since 2001 I'm a full-time GNU/Linux user, and started using Debian GNU/Linux after having tried Gentoo, RedHat, SuSE and some other distribution.

I'm actually studying Odontology (or Dentistry, call it whatever you like), at the [http://www.unipa.it University of Palermo]. Unfortunately, there aren't (m)any open-source software for dentists.

I've also started contributing to Debian, "giving back to the community". They gave me freedom, why not helping them? ;-)

Current work in Debian

I currently maintain[http://snipr.com/qa_page some] Debian packages alone, or inside teams.

My main work is inside the[http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org Debian-Med] team: my main objective would be that of "watching" and integrating into Debian open-source software related to dentists. Unfortunately, there are only small (and just a few) projects which are dead upstream or not fully working :( . I'm therefore doing general contributions to the Debian-Med [:CustomDebian:CDD].

My work in Debian-Med (i.e. the packaging of[http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/emboss-explorer.html emboss-explorer]) lead me to join the[http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org Debian Perl team]. I've contributed some modules, done some bugfixing, and co-maintained some other modules. You can see an overview of my work in Debian in the DDPO page (see "Useful links").

Work in progress (a.k.a. WNPP)

Intent To Package (ITP)

giplet

[http://bugs.debian.org/426837 426837]

[http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/giplet/giplet_0.1.2-1.dsc ]

gisomount

[http://bugs.debian.org/425016 425016]

[http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gisomount/gisomount_1.0.1-1.dsc ]

libopenraw

[http://bugs.debian.org/458136 458136]

[http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libopenraw/libopenraw_0.0.3-1.dsc ]

libtubo

[http://bugs.debian.org/426201 426201][http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libtubo/libtubo_4.5.0-1.dsc ]

[javascript:void(0);/*1199349242438*/ ]

libxml-atom-service-perl

[http://bugs.debian.org/458809 458809]

paco

[http://bugs.debian.org/344813 344813][http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/paco/paco_2.0.2-1.dsc ]

[javascript:void(0);/*1199349279524*/ ]

pastebinit

[http://bugs.debian.org/425226 425226][http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pastebinit/pastebinit_0.8.1-1.dsc ]

[javascript:void(0);/*1199349299177*/ ]

tagsfs

[http://bugs.debian.org/449233 449233][http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tagsfs/tagsfs_0.0.1-beta3-1.dsc ]

[javascript:void(0);/*1199349318270*/ ]

xfdiff

[http://bugs.debian.org/426208 426208][http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xfdiff/xfdiff_4.5.0-1.dsc ]

[javascript:void(0);/*1199349338143*/ ]

Intent To Adopt (ITA)

gthumb

[http://bugs.debian.org/457591 457591]

[http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gthumb/gthumb_2.10.8-1.dsc ]

Request For Package (RFP)

gpixpod

[http://bugs.debian.org/425155 425155]

[http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gpixpod/gpixpod_0.6.2-1.dsc ]

[http://snipr.com/qa_page DDPO page] [http://lintian.debian.org/reports/maintainer/d.paleino@gmail.com.html Lintian reports] [http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?maint=d.paleino@gmail.com BuildD status] [http://people.debian.org/~igloo/status.php?email=d.paleino@gmail.com Igloo] [http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/todo.html?maint=d.paleino@gmail.com ?DebTags] [http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/maintainer.php?maint=d.paleino@gmail.com Debian External Health Status] [http://svnbuildstat.debian.net/packages/list/d.paleino@gmail.com SVN Build Statistics] [https://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=d.paleino@gmail.com New Maintainer Status]

Future expectations

My main wish is to eventually become a Debian Developer. I've applied, but found no one who wanted to advocate me. Unfortunately, I don't have my key signed by any DD (the nearest lives too much far away).

Thanks to...

Also this one, TODO :)