Packard is responsible for many X extensions and technical papers on X. He has been heavily involved in the development of X since the late 1980s as a member of the MIT X Consortium, XFree86 and the X.Org Foundation.
In 2011, O'Reilly awarded an open source award to Packard, as "the person behind most of the improvements made on the open source desktop in the last ten years at least."[1] He is portrayed as one of the Faces of Open Source.[2]
Packard became a Debian Developer in 2004, maintaining font-config (as well as being the upstream maintainer) and other packages.[4] Packard began working for Intel in August 2006. Packard joined Debian's Technical committee in November 2013.[5] Packard started working at Hewlett-Packard's HP Labs in January 2015.[6][7] Packard started consulting for Valve in March 2017.[8] Packard left HP Labs to join SiFive in July 2019, working on free software for RISC-V-based processors, among other tasks.[9] Packard joined Amazon in May 2021.
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