page_title: List of Debian project leaders
section_title: Ian Murdock
hierarchical_section_title: List of Debian project leaders / Leaders / Ian Murdock
caption_attribution_description: Ian Murdock (interview at the Holiday Club hotel).
context_page_description: This is a chronological list of Debian project leaders. Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open-source software primarily under the GNU General Public License, developed by a group of individuals known as the Debian project. The Project Leader is a role defined in the Debian Constitution, and is elected once per year by the Debian developers.
context_section_description: Ian Murdock, the first Debian project leader and the "ian" in "Debian", was an American software engineer. He founded the Debian project in August 1993, naming it after his then-girlfriend and later wife Debra Lynn, and himself (Deb and Ian). He later started Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company.
  He was the Chief Technology Officer of the Free Standards Group and elected chair of the Linux Standard Base workgroup, CTO of the Linux Foundation when the group was formed from the merger of the Free Standards Group and Open Source Development Labs.
  He left the Linux Foundation to join Sun Microsystems leading the Project Indiana making OpenSolaris distribution with GNU userland.
  From 2011 until 2015 Murdock was Vice President of Platform and Developer Community at Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
  From November 2015 until his death Murdock was working for Docker, Inc.
caption: Ian Murdock
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