Stefano Zacchiroli is an Italian and French

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and

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who lives and works in Paris, and a former

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Debian involvement

Zacchiroli became a Debian Developer in 2001. After attending

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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 presented an open source award to Zacchiroli. In 2016, Zacchiroli founded the

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project together with

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. He was a director of the Open Source Initiative from 2014 to 2017 and is currently a member of

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's High Priority Projects committee.

References

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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Zacchiroli, Stefano 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