Sam Hocevar

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Samuel “Sam” Hocevar (born August 5, 1978) is a French programmer. Hocevar was the Debian Project Leader from 17 April 2007 to 16 April 2008, at which time Steve McIntyre took over.

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[edit] Biography

He graduated in 2002 from École Centrale Paris[1], where he specialized in electromechanical systems and applied mechatronics, and project management.

In 2005-2006 he was a Wikimedia France board member.[2]

Hocevar was elected Debian Project Leader on 17 April 2007.[3][4][5][6]

[edit] Achievements

Hocevar is best known for his contributions to the Debian and VideoLAN projects. He has made large contributions to almost all software of the VideoLAN project, especially to VLC media player, since 1998 and he is the author of various software programs, such as zzuf, a data fuzzer, and libcaca, a color ASCII art renderer. Besides this, he reverse engineered DVD subtitles in 2000[7] and claims to have written a Captcha decoder called PWNtcha in 2005.[8][9] He is also the author of the WTFPL version 2, an extremely liberal, permissive free software license that is recognized by the Free Software Foundation as such.

[edit] References

  1. ^ École Centrale Paris. Retrieved on 2007-04-19.
  2. ^ 2005-2006 WikiMedia France Conseil d'administration (French). Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
  3. ^ debian-devel-announce mailing list: Debian Project Leader Election 2007 Results. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
  4. ^ Robert W. Smith (2007-04-11). Debian picks new project head. Heise Online. Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
  5. ^ Sam Varghese (2007-04-09). Debian gets new leader as Etch emerges. iTWire. Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
  6. ^ Sean Michael Kerner (2007-04-09). Debian Etch Takes Over Command From Sarge. InternetNews. Retrieved on 2007-04-24.
  7. ^ DVD subtitles. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
  8. ^ PWNtcha website. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
  9. ^ Defeating Captcha. Slashdot (2005-08-24). Retrieved on 2007-04-09.

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Preceded by
Anthony Towns		 Debian Project Leader
April 2007 - April 2008		 Succeeded by
Steve McIntyre