Sam Hocevar

Samuel “Sam” Hocevar (born 5 August 1978) is a French software and video game developer. Hocevar was the Debian project leader from 17 April 2007 to 16 April 2008.

Biography

Hocevar was born in Forbach, Moselle, France. From 1995 to 1997, Hocevar took preparatory classes at the Lycée Fabert in Metz, Moselle, France. He graduated in 2002 from École centrale Paris, after receiving the "Award of Information Technology and Communication" from the SNCF as the most promising student in his class. He specialized in electromechanical systems and applied mechatronics, and project management.

From 2005 to 2006, Hocevar was a Wikimedia France board member.

Hocevar is best known for his role in the Debian project. Hocevar was elected Debian project leader on 17 April 2007. Hocevar's Debian leadership platform stated a preference for finishing larger numbers of small projects in succession, echoing Japanese management philosophy of Kaizen that constant, incremental improvements to a project would generate more gains per unit of time than large single leaps of performance. Hocevar was succeeded by Steve McIntyre on 16 April 2008.