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Chris Lamb
BornChris Lamb
(1985-12-16) 16 December 1985 (age 39)
United Kingdom
NationalityEnglish
Other nameslamby
OccupationSoftware developer
Known forDebian GNU/Linux, Reproducible builds
Websitechris-lamb.co.uk

Chris Lamb (lamby, born 16 December 1985) is an English free software developer and advocate. He held the position of Debian Project Leader from April 2017 until April 2019. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative and is a core developer in the Reproducible Builds project.

Career

After graduating with a degree in computer science from the University of Warwick, Lamb joined Playfire a social networking website for video game players as Technical Architect. After it was acquired in May 2012 he was a founding employee of fashion startup Thread.com participating in the Y Combinator seed accelerator. In 2015, Lamb left Thread to persue freelancing. As a freelancer, Lamb has contributed to PureOS, a fully free GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian that has received endorsement from the Free Software Foundation that is shipped on the Librem devices manufactured by Purism.

Debian

Succeeding Mehdi Dogguy, Lamb successfully ran for the position of Debian Project Leader in 2017 and 2018. He was re-elected in 2018 and after announcing he would not run for third term he was succeeded by Sam Hartmans in April 2019.

After contributing to the LilyPond packaging in December 2006, he became more involved in the Debian community and the project itself.. Early work in Debian revolved around contributing to the Debian Live and Debian Installer as well as the Javascript, X.org and Python packaging teams. In 2008, he became an official Debian Developer.

He is now part of the FTP Master team, responsible for legal and copyright issues as well as maintaining the state of packages and the archive, accepting and rejecting packages. Outside of these roles, he is a core contributor to the Lintian quality assurance tool and the Python packaging and quality assurance teams. He is also the author of many Debian-specific tools such as travis.debian.net, installation-birthday tools as well as the Debbugs Enhancement Suite Chrome browser extension. He is also a contributor to the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) initiative.

Reproducible builds

Lamb is a core contributor to the Reproducible builds project, a set of software practices that can ensure that no malicious flaws have been introduced during compilation processes. As part of this, he contributes to diffoscope and also operates the try.diffoscope.org web service.

In November 2016, Lamb was awarded a grant from the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative to fund his work in this area.. In November 2018, he oversaw the Reproducible Builds project joining the Software Freedom Conservancy.

Other

He also regularly contributes to the Tails operating system, Django web development framework and is also the author of a number of free and open-source tools such as ] bindings for the Shamir's Secret Sharing cryptographic algorithm, a Strava Chrome browser extension as well as a number of hacks such as a Sudoko solver implemented entirely within a PostScript/PDF document and a method of using strace to give the cp shell command a progress bar.

In 2018, due to licensing changes to several Redis Labs modules making them no longer free and open source, he forked versions from prior to the license change and now maintains changes to these modules under their original free licenses.

Speaking

Lamb spoken at many conferences and events including All Things Open, DebConf, FOSDEM, FOSSASIA, LibrePlanet, SCALE and linux.conf.au and has taught seminars at University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory and New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He has also appeared as a guest on a number of podcasts.

Personal life

Lamb plays the cello, lute and viola da gamba and has completed an Ironman triathlon.

See also

References

  1. "Debian Project Leader Elections 2017". Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  2. "2018 Affiliate and Individual Member Election Results". 2018-03-17. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  3. "Who is involved?". Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  4. "Playfire: The social network dedicated to gamers". Retrieved 17 August 2011.
  5. "2012: Selected highlights".
  6. "2014: Selected highlights".
  7. Robertson, Donald (2017-12-21). "FSF adds PureOS to list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions". www.fsf.org. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  8. "× Open Source Operating Systems Linux FSF Adds PureOS To List of Endorsed GNU/Linux Distributions". Slash Dot. Archived from the original on 28 March 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  9. "Debian Project Leader Elections 2018". Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  10. "Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations". Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  11. "Debian Project Leader Elections 2019". Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  12. "#400550 - lilypond: midi2ly reports error on line 60 (no module named lilylib) - Debian Bug report logs". Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  13. "10 Years of Debian". Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  14. "New Debian leader wants more variety in developer ranks". Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  15. "Teams/FTPMaster".
  16. "The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative Renews Funding for Reproducible Builds Project".
  17. "Reproducible Builds joins the Software Freedom Conservancy". Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  18. "python-gfshare: Secret sharing in Python - Chris Lamb". Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  19. "Strava Enhancement Suite - Chrome Web Store". Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  20. "Sudoku solver in PostScript - Chris Lamb". Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  21. ""Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?" - Chris Lamb". Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  22. "New software licenses aim to protect against cloud providers - SD Times". Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  23. "GoodFORM: Free and Open Redis Modules".
  24. "Reproducible Builds and Secure Software". Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  25. "Samuel Gilkes cello restoration".
  26. "Beethoven Triple Concerto".
  27. "2013: Selected highlights".
  28. "2013: Selected highlights".
  29. "Race Report: Ironman Austria 2014".

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