Martin Krafft
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Martin Krafft (photograph taken 2004) |
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Born | February 14, 1979 Munich, Germany |
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Residence | Zurich, Switzerland |
Nationality | German |
Field | computer science researcher, free software developer, entrepreneur |
Institution | self-employed |
Alma mater | Swarthmore College |
Academic advisor | Brian Fitzgerald |
Known for | Debian. The Debian System |
Martin Felix Krafft (b. February 14, 1979) is a prominent Debian developer (nicknamed madduck), computer science enthusiast, and freelance security and open-source consultant. He is the author of the book The Debian System [1] (ISBN 3-937514-07-4 / ISBN 1-59327-069-0), which has been translated to German, Japanese, and French. A Chinese translation is in the works, and other languages are planned.
Martin lives in Zurich, Switzerland and is working on his Ph.D. thesis with Brian Fitzgerald at Lero — the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems of the University of Limerick, Ireland. His topic is the diffusion of methods in large open-source projects, such as Debian.