How to Contact Daniel Scharrer or Find His Profiles Linked from ds.me

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ds.me is Daniel Scharrer's personal homepage, and the page itself lists the contact channels and profiles you need: two email addresses, an IRC nick, a PGP key, and links to GitHub, OBS, Launchpad, and Open Hub. Use the email addresses for direct contact, the IRC nick for live chat on Libera, OFTC, or Rizon, and the profile links to follow his open-source work. The page does not state response times or preferred contact methods, so treat these as listed channels rather than guaranteed support routes.

Contact Channels Listed on ds.me

Channel Detail on the page How to use it
Email (short) [email protected] Send mail to this address as listed
Email (project) [email protected] Alternative address, likely tied to his projects
IRC Nick `ds`` on Libera, OFTC, or Rizon Connect to any of these networks and message the nick
PGP key 28555A66D7E1DEC9 Use the fingerprint to verify signed messages or encrypt mail

The page presents these as plain contact details without extra instructions. If you plan to send sensitive information by email, the listed PGP key fingerprint is the one to check against a key you retrieve from a keyserver.

Profiles Linked from the Page

The page links to the following accounts, all under the handle dscharrer except Launchpad:

  • GitHub: dscharrer — source code for his projects
  • OBS: dscharrer — openSUSE Build Service account
  • Launchpad: ~dscharrer — Ubuntu/Launchpad profile
  • Open Hub: dscharrer — project and contribution stats

These are the places to look if you want to follow development activity rather than send a message. The page does not describe what each profile contains beyond the handle.

Projects Associated with the Page

Two projects are listed, and they are often the reason people look up the site:

  • Arx Libertatis — a cross-platform port of Arx Fatalis, a first-person role-playing game, licensed GPL3+.
  • innoextract — a tool to unpack installers created by Inno Setup, licensed zlib/libpng.

If your question is about either project, the GitHub profile is the natural starting point, since the page links it directly. The page does not list issue trackers or forums separately.

Practical Notes

  • The IRC nick ends with a backtick (`ds``), which is easy to mistype as an apostrophe; copy it exactly.
  • The page gives no pricing, login, or account requirements for any of these channels.
  • Nothing on the page indicates which channel is checked most often, so choose based on urgency: IRC for a quick question if he is online, email otherwise.