Stefano Zacchiroli

Stefano Zacchiroli is an Italian and French academic and computer scientist who lives and works in Paris, and a former Debian Project Leader.

Stefano Zacchiroli
Stefano, 4 April 2018
Born (1979-03-16) 16 March 1979
CitizenshipItalian, French
Alma materUniversity of Bologna
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsTélécom Paris
Websiteupsilon.cc/~zack/

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.[1] 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 presented an open source award to Zacchiroli.[2]

In 2016, Zacchiroli founded the Software Heritage project together with Roberto Di Cosmo.[3]

He was a director of the Open Source Initiative from 2014 to 2017[4] and is currently a member of Free Software Foundation's High Priority Projects committee.[5]

References
  1. "Debian Project Leader Election 2011 Results". Retrieved 2011-04-16.
  2. "O'Reilly Open Source Awards - OSCON 2015". YouTube. O'Reilly. 2015-07-24. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
  3. "Software Heritage People". Retrieved 2016-11-20.
  4. "OSI Board Changes 2014". 2014-04-09. Archived from the original on 2014-04-13. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  5. "Committee begins review of High Priority Projects list -- your input is needed". 2014-12-08. Retrieved 2015-02-14.
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