Stefano Zacchiroli (born 16 March 1979) is an Italian and French
academic
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and
computer scientist
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who lives and works in
Paris
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, and a former
Debian Project Leader.
Debian involvement
Zacchiroli became a Debian Developer in 2001. After attending
LinuxTag in 2004, he became more involved in the Debian community and the project itself, eventually being elected as DPL in 2010, succeeding Steve McIntyre, a position in which he served from April 2010 to April 2013. In April 2011, he was re-elected unopposed as project leader. He was himself succeeded by Lucas Nussbaum in an election where he himself was no longer a candidate.
Free and Open Source Career
In 2015,
O'Reilly
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presented an
open source award to Zacchiroli.
In 2016, Zacchiroli founded the
Software Heritage project together with
Roberto Di Cosmo.
He was a director of the
Open Source Initiative
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Governance
The ...
from 2014 to 2017 and is currently a member of
Free Software Foundation
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's High Priority Projects committee.
References
External links
Zacchiroli's home page2010 DPL campaign platform''How Debian has grown: Stefano Zacchiroli speaks'' iTWire, May 2012
''Keeping 1000 devs focused: new Debian leader speaks'' iTWire, April 2010
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Debian Project leaders
Italian computer programmers
Italian computer scientists
French computer programmers
French computer scientists
Living people
Free software programmers
1979 births
Members of the Open Source Initiative board of directors