Sending Debian Developer Daniel Pocock to European Parliament (Voting Day is Tomorrow)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 06, 2024

Mr Pocock is running for MEP in Midlands-North-West (Ireland) and election day (polls open) is tomorrow. Contrary to what some people want you to think, he is a coauthor of Debian GNU/Linux and his only 'offence' is that he spoke about abuse. Here is a message from 2012, by Joachim Reichel:

I recommend to accept Daniel Pocock as a Debian Developer.


1. Identification & Account Data
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   First name:      Daniel
   Middle name:     -
   Last name:       Pocock
   Key fingerprint: F50FF72AADF5C01BF0FCE5636C6580E77BD756C4
   Account:         pocock


2. Background
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Some background about me personally:
- - I've been an amateur radio operator since I was 15, VK3TQR
- - I started using Linux at about the same time (before the 1.0 kernel)
and Debian in 1997
- - Graduated from the University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Computer Science
- - migrated to Europe (lived in UK, Ireland, France, Switzerland)
- - have worked in ISPs, VoIP and financial services/banking IT


My open source work is documented on my web site:
http://www.pocock.com.au/open-source-software-projects

The above link still works.

Unlike some so-called 'Debian Developers', he can actually code and do a whole bunch of other stuff. █