Martin Michlmayr is a

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advocate and

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developer, formerly president of

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. Michlmayr joined the Debian project in 2000. In 2003, Michlmayr was elected as

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; he was re-elected to that position one year later, in 2004. Michlmayr contributed to Debian's New Member process, participating in the recruitment of over 120 new members. Additionally, Michlmayr made various contributions to Debian's

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effort. He identified the problem of packages with inactive maintainers and implemented processes to address this problem systematically. He also became involved in identifying inactive maintainers whose

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should be reassigned; created overviews of bugs in Debian; and coordinated keysigning to improve Debian's

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. He also contributed to Debian's ports to the

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and MIPS platforms, by porting Debian to several embedded devices and

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(NAS) devices. He used snapshots of the GCC compiler to build the entire Debian archive. This work resulted in the identification of compiler bugs as well as build errors in many open source packages. Michlmayr completed a

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in technology management at the

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in 2007. The focus of this research was on

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and open source projects, and particularly on release management processes and practices. In 2013,

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awarded an open source award to Michlmayr, putting him in "the 'unsung heroes' category—the people who devote themselves to the important but not always glorious jobs that keep open source healthy". Between 2008 and 2014 Michlmayr served on the

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of the

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, acting as the organization's secretary. He is a member of

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's evaluation committee, which evaluates projects that apply to Conservancy for membership. Michlmayr acted as an advisor to

in the past.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Michlmayr, Martin Debian Project leaders Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Living people Members of the Open Source Initiative board of directors Year of birth missing (living people)