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[Francesca Ciceri]

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Date:   Mon Mar 25 16:40:55 2013 +0100

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+Title: Debian Project Leader elections 2013: interview with Gergely Nagy
+Date: 2013-03-25 15:59
+Tags: interview, dpl, vote
+Slug: dpl-interview-2013-algernon
+Author: Francesca Ciceri
+Status: draft
+
+
+We have asked Gergely Nagy, one of the three candidates for 
+[DPL elections 2013](http://bits.debian.org/candidates-for-dpl-2013.md.html),
+to tell our readers about himself and his ideas for the Debian Project.
+
+**Please tell us a little about yourself.**
+
+I was born in Hungary, a little bit over three decades ago, as a son of
+a biochemist and a pharmacist, who gave me the name Gergely Nagy
+(however, online - and offline too by now - I'm mostly known by my
+nickname, algernon).
+
+I went on to study human arts (hungarian grammar & literature, in
+particular), and to support this passion, I work as a software engineer,
+one who gets paid to work on free software. As such, I'm in a fortunate
+situation where my hobby supports my passion, and my hobby aligns well
+with my Debian work too.
+
+**What do you do in Debian and how did you started contributing?**
+
+At the moment, apart from maintaining a few packages, I'm doing a few
+other, mostly invisible things, like reassigning misfiled bugs so they
+don't end up being forgotten; or review newly uploaded packages before
+they enter the archive, making sure we are allowed to distribute them,
+and that their quality is up to our standards. I used to do quite a lot
+of other things, but I chose to spend the past year mostly invisible,
+learning.
+
+I started contributing by packaging an editor I was using at the time,
+but quickly ended up adopting another package - things escalated from
+there quickly.
+
+**Why did you decide to run as DPL?**
+
+There were two reasons that motivated me to run: one is that I believe I
+can bring something new to the table, that I can help Debian expand in
+new directions. The other reason is that I'm always on the lookout for
+new ways to contribute back to Debian, and being the project leader is a
+position where I believe I could contribute most at this point in time.
+
+**Three keywords to summarise your platform.**
+
+Non-technical contributors.
+
+**What are the biggest challenges that you envision for Debian in the future?**
+
+The biggest challenge is growing up, to become more than a group of
+computer geeks creating an amazing distribution. To become a community
+of a wide variety of people, where both computer geeks and art geeks
+feel equally at home. Yet, at the same time, where we as a project, keep
+our focus straight, and be the champions of Free Software.
+
+We just need to realize that there's much more to Free Software than
+the software itself.
+
+**What are, in your opinion, the areas of the project more in need of 
+technical and/or social improvements?**
+
+I believe that while we do have many areas where we could use technical
+improvements, we are reasonably safe there, because we do have very
+skilled technical people to help us solve these problems. We can make
+our tools better, we can develop our infrastructure better to aid us
+even more - and so on and so forth. While we need work on many areas,
+we're on the right track there.
+
+However, when it comes to social issues, we're at a loss. We have
+serious trouble keeping certain topics civilised on mailing lists, we
+have trouble attracting women, and we have trouble reaching people who
+are not naturally exposed to Debian (or Free Software). We could really
+use a more diverse community, but that requires us to overcome quite a
+lot of social roadblocks, so to say. Outreach is one particular area
+where we need much more technical and social improvements.
+
+**Why should people vote for you?**
+
+People should vote me, because they found my platform, my answers on
+debian-vote@, and my ideas and goals convincing and worthy to
+pursue. People should vote me, because they trust I'll be able to serve
+the project well.
+
+**Name three tools you couldn't stay without.**
+
+Emacs, git and a pencil. Because with these three, I can pretty much do
+anything.
+
+**What keep you motivated to work in Debian?**
+
+The community. Over the years, I had the good fortune to meet with a lot
+of people I hold in high esteem, whose enthusiasm and motivation I found
+inspiring. For any other common goals Debian and I may share, in the
+end, it is the people within Debian that keep me motivated.
+
+**Are there any other fields where you call yourself a geek, besides computers?**
+
+I'm not quite there yet, but I'm working hard on becoming a human arts
+geek, or at least a geek of the hungarian language.

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