Havoc Pennington graduated from the University of Chicago in 1998. After graduation, he worked at Red Hat as a Desktop manager/engineer for nine years, ending in 2008. He also founded the project freedesktop.org in 2000.[4][5] He promoted the idea of the Gnome Online Desktop in 2007.[6] For a time,[when?] he led the development of the 2006–2009 Mugshot project. From 2008 until June 2011, he worked on a consumer product for the startup company Litl (hardware, and proprietary software and services). From 2011 to 2015 he worked for Typesafe (now Lightbend).[1] In 2017 he cofounded Tidelift, which seeks to improve the ecosystem around open source software by providing support for professional teams using open source and helping maintainers build sustainable businesses around their projects.[7]
havoc, pennington, robert, sanford, born, 1976, american, computer, engineer, entrepreneur, known, free, software, movement, work, gnome, metacity, gconf, bornrobert, sanford, 1976nationalityamericanoccupationcomputer, programmeremployertidelift, known, forlin. Robert Sanford Havoc Pennington born c 1976 is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur He is known in the free software movement due to his work on HAL GNOME Metacity GConf and D Bus 2 3 Havoc PenningtonBornRobert Sanford Havoc Penningtonc 1976NationalityAmericanOccupationComputer programmerEmployerTidelift 1 Known forLinux GNOME development Contents 1 History 2 See also 3 Publications 4 References 5 External linksHistory editHavoc Pennington graduated from the University of Chicago in 1998 After graduation he worked at Red Hat as a Desktop manager engineer for nine years ending in 2008 He also founded the project freedesktop org in 2000 4 5 He promoted the idea of the Gnome Online Desktop in 2007 6 For a time when he led the development of the 2006 2009 Mugshot project From 2008 until June 2011 he worked on a consumer product for the startup company Litl hardware and proprietary software and services From 2011 to 2015 he worked for Typesafe now Lightbend 1 In 2017 he cofounded Tidelift which seeks to improve the ecosystem around open source software by providing support for professional teams using open source and helping maintainers build sustainable businesses around their projects 7 See also editLennart PoetteringPublications editHavoc Pennington GTK Gnome Application Development Sams ISBN 978 0735700789 1999 References edit a b Havoc Pennington LinkedIn Interview with Havoc Pennington Archived from the original on 2016 12 02 Retrieved 2021 09 07 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link Roblimo Havoc Pennington Answers Slashdot org Retrieved 26 February 2013 Rayiner Hashem amp Eugenia Loli Queru The Big freedesktop org Interview OSnews com Archived from the original on 2018 08 21 Retrieved 26 February 2013 Loli Eungenia Havoc Pennington Linux has its Nails on UNIX s Coffin Retrieved 3 January 2013 Pennington Havoc 23 July 2007 Direction Abstract vs Specific Havoc s Blog Retrieved 31 July 2020 Our mission Tidelift Retrieved 20 February 2018 External links edit nbsp Free and open source software portal Official website Havoc Pennington on Twitter nbsp Havoc Pennington on Instagram nbsp This biographical article relating to a computer specialist is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Havoc Pennington amp oldid 1170240686, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
