Steve McIntyre
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 Steve in September 2007
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| Occupation | Software Engineer |
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| Website http://www.einval.com/~steve/ |
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Steve McIntyre is a software engineer and a long-time Debian developer. His best known contributions have been in the field of creating Debian CD/DVD images; he is the debian-cd team leader and is responsible for generating the official images.
McIntyre ran for the post of Debian Project Leader in 2006 but was defeated by Anthony Towns by only six effective votes. In 2006-2007, he was named "Second in charge", a post created for him by Towns.[1] In the 2007 DPL election, he was defeated by Sam Hocevar, again by a small margin, only eight effective votes. In 2008 he again ran for the position of DPL and was elected[2].
Born in Wigan, at 21:12 BST on the 28th May 1974, McIntyre now lives in Cambridge and works for Amino Communications.
[edit] References
- ^ Towns, Anthony. Bits from the DPL. Retrieved on 2008-04-13.
- ^ Debian Project Leader Election 2008 Results
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| Preceded by Sam Hocevar |
Debian Project Leader April 2008 – present |
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