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Keeping 1000 devs focused: new Debian leader speaks

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Sam Varghese
Apr 27, 2010

“Ten days back, the new leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project,
Stefano Zacchiroli, began his term as the only elected leader of a
free software project. But that’s not the only thing that makes
Debian unique in the FOSS space.

“The project has well over 1000 developers from all corners of
the globe and, despite the arguments and debates that figure on its
many mailing lists, still puts together a distribution that is top
quality and caters to more architectures than any other.

“Zacchiroli, a post-doctoral fellow at a university in Paris,
thus has a fairly tough task ahead as he begins his term. He took
some time out to speak to iTWire about his plans for the year.”


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