- Havoc Pennington
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name = Havoc Pennington
birth_name = Robert Sanford Havoc Pennington
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known_for =GNOME development
occupation =Computer programmer
employer = Litl
nationality = AmericanRobert Sanford Havoc Pennington is well-known in the
free software community due to his work onGNOME ,Metacity ,GConf , andD-BUS . He works for startup [http://litl.com/ LiTL] , "developing a consumer product that involves hardware, software, and online services".Before LiTL he was a
Red Hat Desktop manager/engineer for 9 years. Before his Red Hat position he was one of the main developers ofDebian GNU/Linux, and also foundedfreedesktop.org in2000 .More recently, Havoc has led the development of the Mugshot project and promoted the idea of the [http://log.ometer.com/2007-04.html Gnome Online Desktop] .
Pennington is a
1998 graduate of theUniversity of Chicago .References
* [http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5215&page=1 The Big freedesktop.org Interview] (Rayiner Hashem, "OSNews", 24 Nov 2003)
* [http://log.ometer.com/2008-02.html First mention of LiTL]External links
* [http://ometer.com/ Home page]
* [http://mugshot.org/person?who=gDmfAh8d7gXVRP Mugshot page]
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