Stefano Zacchiroli

Stefano Zacchiroli
File:Stefano zacchiroli debconf10.1.jpg Stefano, 10 August 2010
Born	(1979-03-16) 16 March 1979
Residence	Paris, France
Citizenship	Italian, French
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Université Paris Diderot
Alma mater	University of Bologna
Website upsilon.cc/~zack/

Stefano Zacchiroli (born 16 March 1979) is an Italian academic and computer scientist who lives and works in Paris, and a former Debian Project Leader, having this position between April 2010 and 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.

Career

Zacchiroli earned a PhD in computer science in 2007 at University of Bologna in Italy and moved to Paris Diderot University in France for his Postdoctoral research. He is involved into the MANCOOSI project working on the application of formal methods to the solution of complexity issues in the management of GNU/Linux distributions.

From the technical point of view, Zacchiroli has been involved in Debian mainly in the OCaml packaging and in the quality assurance team.

In April 2011 he was re-elected as project leader unopposed. In April 2012 he was re-elected again, becoming the first-ever DPL to be elected three times. He is currently a director of the Open Source Initiative and a member of Free Software Foundation's High Priority Projects committee.

In 2015, O'Reilly awarded an open source award to Zacchiroli.

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

Preceded by Steve McIntyre

Debian Project Leader April 2010 — April 2013

Succeeded by Lucas Nussbaum