Open source communities are the backbone of open source innovation and acceleration, and this Special Recognition for their contribution to Community Impact is dedicated to the communities that have made a demonstrable positive impact on the open source ecosystem or in advancing the interests of open source collaboration and innovation.
Stefano Zacchiroli is full professor of computer science at Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris. His current research interests span digital commons, open source software engineering, computer security, and the software supply chain. He is co-founder and CSO (Chief Scientific Officer) of Software Heritage, the largest public archive of software source code. He is a former 3-times Debian project leader and a former board director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). He is recipient of the 2015 O’Reilly Open Source Award and of the 2022 Google Award for Inclusion Research.