Introduction: Stefano Zacchiroli (University Paris 7 / Debian)

Hi everybody, my name is Stefano Zacchiroli and I've become an
enthusiast of (the possibility of) federated services via the Free
Software movement.

As a volunteer, I'm heavily involved in the Debian Project (who is
making the Debian GNU/Linux distribution), currently holding the
position of project leader.  As my day job, I'm a researcher in Paris,
France at IRILL (http://www.irill.org), which is a cross-institution
computer science research center studying topics emerging from the Free
Software ecosystem.  I hold a Ph.D. in theoretical computer science and
formal methods and I'm a computer geek by nature.

I've been participating in other W3C activities, most notably as a
member of the XML Schema working group, due to my (past) interest in
streaming validation of complex document constraints known as
"co-constraints".

My interest in federated services stems from the observation that they
are the natural evolution of the Free Software battled for user freedoms
in an era which is more and more dominated by software. As Free Software
is the only way to liberate users of personal computer applications,
federations (of Free Software based services) are the only weapon to
liberate users of applications "in the cloud".  On the Debian front I'm
keeping relationships with the FreedomBox foundation
(http://freedomboxfoundation.org/) which is an obvious user, potentially
very relevant, of the topics this group will be working on.

Cheers.

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7
zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/
Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, |  .  |. I've fans everywhere
ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela .......| ..: |.......... -- C. Adams

Received on Tuesday, 8 March 2011 22:37:05 UTC