Stefano Zacchiroli
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Stefano Zacchiroli | |
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![]() Stefano, 4 April 2018 | |
Born | 16 March 1979 |
Citizenship | Italian, French |
Alma mater | University of Bologna |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | Université Paris Diderot |
Website | upsilon![]() |
Stefano Zacchiroli is an Italian and French academic and computer scientist who lives and works in Paris, and a former Debian Project Leader, a position in which he served from April 2010 to April 2013. Succeeding Steve McIntyre, he was himself succeeded by Lucas Nussbaum in an election where he himself was no longer a candidate. Zacchiroli became a Debian Developer in 2001. After attending LinuxTag in 2004, he became more involved in the Debian community and the project itself.
In 2016, Zacchiroli founded the Software Heritage project together with Roberto Di Cosmo.[1]
Career[]
In April 2011 he was re-elected unopposed as project leader.[2] He was a director of the Open Source Initiative from 2014 to 2017[3] and is currently a member of Free Software Foundation's High Priority Projects committee.[4]
In 2015, O'Reilly presented an open source award to Zacchiroli.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Software Heritage People". Retrieved 2016-11-20.
- ^ "Debian Project Leader Election 2011 Results". Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ "OSI Board Changes 2014". 2014-04-09. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ "Committee begins review of High Priority Projects list -- your input is needed". 2014-12-08. Retrieved 2015-02-14.
- ^ "O'Reilly Open Source Awards - OSCON 2015". YouTube. O'Reilly. 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
External links[]
- Zacchiroli's home page
- 2010 DPL campaign platform
- How Debian has grown: Stefano Zacchiroli speaks, iTWire, May 2012
- Keeping 1000 devs focused: new Debian leader speaks, iTWire, April 2010
- 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