Havoc Pennington
{{short description|American computer engineer and entrepreneur}}
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|name = Havoc Pennington
|birth_name = Robert Sanford Havoc Pennington
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|birth_date = {{circa|1976}}
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|known_for = Linux, GNOME development
|occupation = Computer programmer
|employer = Tidelift [https://www.linkedin.com/in/havoc Havoc Pennington], LinkedIn
|nationality = American
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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.{{Cite web |url=http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview_havoc_pennington/ |title=Interview with Havoc Pennington |access-date=2021-09-07 |archive-date=2016-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202034539/http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview_havoc_pennington/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}{{cite web|last=Roblimo|title=Havoc Pennington Answers|date=24 September 1999 |url=http://slashdot.org/story/99/09/24/1056215/havoc-pennington-answers|publisher=Slashdot.org|access-date=26 February 2013}}
History
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.{{cite web|last=Rayiner Hashem & Eugenia Loli-Queru|title=The Big freedesktop.org Interview|url=http://www.osnews.com/story/5215&page=1|publisher=OSnews.com|access-date=26 February 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821124726/https://www.osnews.com/story/5215&page=1|archive-date=2018-08-21}}{{cite web|last=Loli|first=Eungenia|title=Havoc Pennington: Linux has its Nails on UNIX's Coffin|url=http://www.osnews.com/story/4521|access-date=3 January 2013}} He promoted the idea of the Gnome Online Desktop in 2007.{{cite web |last1=Pennington |first1=Havoc |title=Direction: Abstract vs. Specific |url=https://blog.ometer.com/2007/07/23/direction-abstract-vs-specific/ |website=Havoc's Blog |date=23 July 2007 |access-date=31 July 2020}} For a time,{{When|date=February 2010}} 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). 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.{{cite web|url=https://tidelift.com/about|title=Our mission|website=Tidelift|access-date=20 February 2018}}
Publications
- Havoc Pennington, GTK+ /Gnome Application Development, Sams, {{ISBN|978-0735700789}}, 1999.
References
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External links
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Category:Free software programmers
Category:American computer programmers
Category:University of Chicago alumni
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