Havoc Pennington

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 Pennington
Born
Robert Sanford Havoc Pennington

c. 1976
NationalityAmerican
OccupationComputer programmer
EmployerTidelift [1]
Known forLinux, GNOME development

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.[4][5] He promoted the idea of the Gnome Online Desktop in 2007.[6] For a time, 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]

Publications
  • Havoc Pennington, GTK+ /Gnome Application Development, Sams, ISBN 978-0735700789, 1999.

References
  1. Havoc Pennington, LinkedIn
  2. Interview with Havoc Pennington at freesoftwaremagazine.com [Error: unknown archive URL] (archived [Date missing])
  3. Roblimo. "Havoc Pennington Answers". Slashdot.org. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  4. Rayiner Hashem & Eugenia Loli-Queru. "The Big freedesktop.org Interview". OSnews.com. Archived from the original on 2018-08-21. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  5. Loli, Eungenia. "Havoc Pennington: Linux has its Nails on UNIX's Coffin". Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  6. Pennington, Havoc. "Direction: Abstract vs. Specific". Havoc's Blog. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  7. "Our mission". Tidelift. Retrieved 20 February 2018.


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