Hi all Well, it's been well over a week and no-one has objected (not surprising) so I can formally declare that we have a new board member. @Stefano: welcome aboard! I will add your name to the masthead. cheers, Mathieu ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Stefano Zacchiroli [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 3:06 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JoPP-Public] New member: Stefano Zacchiroli On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 01:08:24AM +0000, Mathieu ONeil wrote:
I am delighted to sponsor a (pardon the cringe) very special new member of our editorial board, Stefano Zacchiroli. Stefano was until recently project leader for the legendary FOSS distribution, Debian, which is as we speak celebrating its 20th anniversary!
Stefano, over to you: thanks for briefly presenting yourself, your research interests and your intended contribution to the journal.
Hi everybody, and thanks Mathieu for your kind words! I essentially live two lives: an academic and a geek one. Luckily, they seem to intersect on a Free Software spot. As an academic, I'm a Maître de Conférences (~= Associate Professor) at University Paris Diderot (France), and a research fellow at IRILL (http://www.irill.org). My scientific background is in theoretical computer science, mainly proof theory and logics. After moving to Paris in 2008, I've started applying that background to the study of the interactions among software components, and in particular to software packages in Free Software distributions. As a result, I've been able to "give back" to the Free Software community quite a bit of my research work, in the form of software which is used daily to monitor the quality of various distributions. A list of my publications is available at http://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/ As a geek, I've been active in the Free Software movement for the past 15 years, mainly in the Debian Project. I've been an official Debian Developer since 2001. I've worked on several Debian sub-projects, the most relevant of which for this list are probably in the area of distribution-wide Quality Assurance. Related initiatives usually require keeping an eye on, and often try to re-engineer, human processes ... which is quite challenging in a mostly volunteer project like Debian, where "incentives" have nothing to do with those you find studied in traditional management literature. My project-wide interest has then naturally evolved into a desire to try the "hot seat", and resulted in me being elected and serving 3 times as Debian Project Leader, over the 2010-2013 period. I've discovered the JoPP journal only recently, thanks to Biella mentioning it, and I've got fascinated by it. Not only I loved your open attitude on this list, but I also find very intriguing your choice of topics, with a mixture of societal and political angles. If you think my contributions could be helpful, I'll be honored to serve as a member of the editorial board! All the best, -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . [email protected] . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » _______________________________________________ JoPP-Public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jopp-public