List of Debian project leaders
He founded the Debian project in August 1993, naming it after his then-girlfriend and later wife, Debra Lynn, and himself (Deb and Ian).
He left the Linux Foundation to join Sun Microsystems leading the Project Indiana making OpenSolaris distribution with GNU userland.
From November 2015 until his death, Murdock worked for Docker, Inc. Bruce Perens is an American computer programmer, an advocate of the free software movement and author of BusyBox.
He co-founded the Open Source Initiative (OSI) with Eric S. Raymond and Software in the Public Interest.
[3] Wichert Akkerman is a Dutch computer programmer who has contributed to Debian, dpkg, Plone and strace.
The focus of this research was on quality improvement in free software and open source projects, and particularly on release management processes and practices.
Between 2008 and 2014, he served on the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative and is a member of Software Freedom Conservancy's evaluation committee.
He ran for Debian project leader in 2005, but was defeated by Branden Robinson by a margin of 23 effective votes.
[12] Towns was elected by the second-narrowest-ever margin[13] and was the first project leader to face a recall vote while in office.
[15] Since a great deal of Debian work takes place in Europe, Queensland-based Towns created the post of "Debian Second in Charge" (2IC) to lead discussion, support developers, and represent the project in locations which could more easily be reached by the runner-up candidate, Steve McIntyre, than himself.
[13] In September 2006, the Dunc-tank project started a fund-raising programme to help Debian release its next distribution, Etch, on the scheduled date of 4 December 2006.
Nonetheless, Towns views the outcome of the Dunc Tank project as positive,[17] highlighting that Dunc-Tank opposition helped to improve quality of Debian Etch.
Lucas Nussbaum is a French computer science engineer and assistant professor at University of Lorraine, researcher at LORIA laboratory.
[24] Neil McGovern, an Executive Director at the Gnome Foundation, was elected in April 2015,[25] after running for the second time in a row.
[26] Mehdi Dogguy, a Tunisian-French technical manager at Électricité de France,[27] was elected in April 2016,[28] running without opponents.
Chris Lamb, a British freelancer,[29] was elected in April 2017,[30] running against the incumbent leader Mehdi Dogguy.
Hartman worked as the Chief Technologist at the MIT Kerberos Consortium and as a Security Area Director of the Internet Engineering Taskforce, and joined Debian in 2000.
[32] He was elected running against Joerg Jaspert, Jonathan Carter and Martin Michlmayr[33] and focused his term on resolving conflicts in Debian and facilitating project-wide discussions and decision-making on contentious technical issues.
