Martin Krafft
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| Martin Felix Krafft | |
 Martin Krafft (photograph taken 2004)
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| Born | 1979-02-14 Munich, Germany |
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| Residence | Zurich, Switzerland |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | computer science researcher, free software developer, entrepreneur |
| Institutions | self-employed |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College |
| Doctoral 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, privacy, and open-source consultant. He is the author of the book The Debian System.
Martin joined Debian in 1997 and became an official developer in 2001. He has since worked on user support, public representation, security issues, quality assurance, integration tasks, as well as the maintenance of packages, such as mdadm, hibernate, and logcheck. His current focus is on workflows and process improvement.
Under the supervision of Prof. Brian Fitzgerald, Martin researches how new methods might be deployed in global volunteer projects to increase the efficiency of the contributors and the project as a whole. He pursues a Ph.D. degree at Lero — the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems of the University of Limerick, Ireland, but continues to live in Zurich, Switzerland.
Not very fond of graphical user interfaces, Martin hacks on netconf, a modern network configuration management system. Even though he comes at this project from a Debian perspective, he keeps a cross-distro focus and tries to get other distributions involved.
He also spear-heads the vcs-pkg project, an effort to integrate version control systems with software package maintenance and to facilitate collaboration between maintainers of the same software package in different distributions.
Martin has spoken at several conferences, including linux.conf.au, FOSDEM, DebConf, FrOSCon, and LinuxTag. He also regularly publishes articles on his blog.
Martin graduated from Swarthmore College in 2001 with the High Honours Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Psychology, and [[Cognitive Science]]. He worked as research and teaching assistant at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich until 2005.
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