- Sam Hocevar
Samuel “Sam” Hocevar (born
August 5 ,1978 ) is a Frenchprogrammer . Hocevar was theDebian Project Leader from17 April 2007 to16 April 2008 , at which timeSteve McIntyre took over.Biography
He graduated in 2002 from
École Centrale Paris cite web | url=http://www.ecp.fr/fr/G_voir/G2_actualites/G2a_actualites.htm?rubrique_id=rubrique_13&actualite_id=actualite_41 | title=École Centrale Paris | accessdate=2007-04-19] , where he specialized in electromechanical systems and applied mechatronics, and project management.In 2005-2006 he was a [http://www.wikimedia.fr/wiki/Accueil Wikimedia France] board member.cite web | url=http://ca.wikimedia.fr/index.php?title=Conseil_d%27administration&oldid=2325 | title=2005-2006 WikiMedia France Conseil d'administration |accessdate=2007-04-09 |language=French]
Hocevar was elected
Debian Project Leader on17 April 2007 .cite web | url=http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/04/msg00004.html | title=debian-devel-announce mailing list: Debian Project Leader Election 2007 Results | accessdate=2007-04-09] [cite web | url=http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/88080 |author=Robert W. Smith| title=Debian picks new project head |publisher=Heise Online |accessdate=2007-04-18 |date=2007-04-11 ] [cite web | url=http://www.itwire.com/content/view/11154/1090/ |author=Sam Varghese |title=Debian gets new leader as Etch emerges | publisher=iTWire | accessdate=2007-04-18 |date=2007-04-09 ] [cite web | url=http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3670521 |author=Sean Michael Kerner |title=Debian Etch Takes Over Command From Sarge | publisher=InternetNews | accessdate=2007-04-24 |date=2007-04-09 ]Achievements
Hocevar is best known for his contributions to the
Debian andVideoLAN projects. He has made large contributions to almost all software of the VideoLAN project, especially toVLC media player , since 1998 and he is the author of various software programs, such aszzuf , a data fuzzer, andlibcaca , a colorASCII art renderer. Besides this, hereverse engineer ed DVDsubtitles in 2000cite web | url=http://sam.zoy.org/writings/dvd/subtitles/ | accessdate=2007-04-09 | title=DVD subtitles] and wrote aCaptcha decoder called PWNtcha in 2005.cite web | url=http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha | title=PWNtcha website | accessdate=2007-04-09] cite web | url=http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/24/1629213 | title=Defeating Captcha | publisher=Slashdot |accessdate=2007-04-09 | date=2005-08-24 ] He is also the author of theWTFPL version 2, an extremely liberal,permissive free software license that is recognized by theFree Software Foundation as such.References
External links
* [http://sam.zoy.org/ Hocevar's website]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.