Martin Krafft

Infobox_Scientist
name = Martin Felix Krafft


caption = Martin Krafft (photograph taken in 2004)
birth_date = 1979-02-14
birth_place = Munich, Germany
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death_place =
residence = Zurich, Switzerland
nationality = German
field = computer science researcher, free software developer, entrepreneur
work_institution = self-employed
alma_mater = Swarthmore College, University of Limerick
doctoral_advisor = Brian Fitzgerald, Kieran Conboy
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known_for = Debian, The Debian System
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religion = Agnostic
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Martin Felix Krafft (b. February 14, 1979) is a prominent
Debian developer (nicknamed madduck),
computer science enthusiast, and freelance security,
privacy, and open-source consultant. He is the author of the book"The Debian System".

Martin joined Debian in 1997 and became an official developer in2001. He has since worked on user support, public representation,security issues, quality assurance, integration tasks, as well asthe maintenance of packages, such as mdadm, hibernate, and
logcheck. His current focus is on workflows and
process improvement.

Under the supervision of Prof. Brian Fitzgerald and Dr. Kieran Conboy, Martinresearches [http://phd.martin-krafft.net/ the adoption and use of tools and technologies by Debian package maintainers] .He pursues a Ph.D. degree as an external student of the
University of Limerick, Ireland, partially funded by
Lero — the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre.

He also spear-heads the [http://vcs-pkg.org vcs-pkg project] , an effort tointegrate version control systems with software package maintenanceand to facilitate collaboration between maintainers of the same
software package in different
distributions.

Not very fond of graphical user interfaces, Martin hacks on [http://netconf.alioth.debian.org netconf, a modern network configuration management system] in his spare time. Even though he comes at this project from a Debianperspective, he keeps a cross-distro focus and tries to get otherdistributions involved. netconf was a Google Summer of Code project in2008.

Martin has spoken at several conferences, including linux.conf.au,
FOSDEM, DebConf, FrOSCon, and LinuxTag. He also regularlypublishes articles on [http://madduck.net/blog/ his blog] .

Martin graduated from Swarthmore College in 2001 with the High Honours
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Psychology, and
Cognitive Science. He worked as research and teaching assistant at the
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich until2005.

External links

* [http://people.debian.org/~madduck/ Debian homepage of Martin F. Krafft]
* [http://phd.martin-krafft.net/ Ph.D. research webpage]
* [http://martin-krafft.net/ Personal homepage]