Scott James Remnant
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| name = Scott James Remnant
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1980|7|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = Sussex, England
| occupation = Software engineer
| employer = Google
| website = {{URL|http://www.netsplit.com/}}
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Scott James Remnant (born 18 July 1980) is an open source software engineer. Scott served as a long-time Debian developer until 2006 and worked as "Ubuntu Developer Manager" on the Ubuntu Linux distribution{{Cite news | issue = 96 | pages = 8 | title = Monkey Business | work = Linux Format | date = September 2007 }} at Canonical Ltd. He now works at Google as a Technical Lead on Bluetooth Systems.{{cite web|url=http://netsplit.com/2011/01/11/leaving-canonical/|title=Leaving Canonical|date=January 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110126075341/http://netsplit.com/2011/01/11/leaving-canonical/|archivedate=26 January 2011}}
Work
- Scott had run the Linux humour website Segfault.org. Whilst being a Debian developer, Scott had maintained several important packages; notably being Libtool and Dpkg. Not only that but had the accomplishment of being the author of the Upstart initialization system. He had also developed the Planet weblog aggregation system. Furthermore, he served on the Ubuntu Technical Board until October 2011.
Personal life
Scott is openly gay, and believes it important to be open about it to support others in the open source community.{{cite web|url=http://www.netsplit.com/2009/10/12/coming-out/|title=Coming Out|date=12 October 2009|accessdate=24 April 2010|archive-date=15 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015224144/http://www.netsplit.com/2009/10/12/coming-out/|url-status=dead}}
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External links
- [http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/interview/scott+james+remnant Interview with Remnant] by FOSDEM
- [http://rudd-o.com/en/linux-and-free-software/interview-with-scott-ubuntu-and-upstart-developer Another interview with Remnant] focusing on Upstart
- {{Official website|http://www.netsplit.com/}}
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Category:Free software programmers
Category:Ubuntu (operating system) people
Category:21st-century English LGBTQ people
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