Carsten Haitzler

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name = Carsten Haitzler
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birth_date = birth_date_and_age|1975|11|29|df=y
occupation = Software engineer
spouse = NA
website = http://www.rasterman.com
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Carsten Haitzler (born 1975), known as Raster or Rasterman to the open source community, is an Australian/German (his father is German and his mother is Finnish) software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Enlightenment window manager for UNIX/Linux. He now acts as the project's lead developer. He currently resides in Tokyo, Japan with his girlfriend Meg.

Carsten Haitzler was born in Nigeria, but soon moved with his family to Germany where he lived until the age of 4. Carsten then moved to Sydney, Australia where he attended the University of New South Wales, graduating with a bachelor degree in computer science. In 1997 Carsten moved to North Carolina, U.S. to work for Red Hat in the development of the CORBA, Xlib, GTK+ libraries, then later moved to work with VA Linux Systems. Other software Carsten has contributed to includes electric eyes, GTK+ theme engines, Imlib, Imlib2 and Epplets.

In Sydney, Carsten worked for Fluffy Spider Technologies where he refined, optimized and commercialized the basic Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) for Enlightenment 0.17. Fluffy Spider Technologies use some of EFL for their embedded Linux graphical user interface FancyPants.

He used to work for OpenMoko, decided it that "turned out to be a non-working thing for me, so I resigned".

External links and References

* [http://www.linux.org.au/auscontrib Linux Australia - Australian Contributors.]
* [http://www.dsj.net/compedge/rasterman.html Carsten Haitzler departs Red Hat]
* [http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/mailarchive/9801/msg00053.html RHS Newsletter, January 1998.]
* [http://lwn.net/1999/features/Timeline/?month=jun LWN Linux Timeline, June, 1999.]
* [http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/esd/ ESD White Paper, RHS 1999.]
* [http://www.fluffyspider.com/ Fluffy Spider Technologies website] .
* [http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2000/x.php Ottawa Linux Symposium, 2000.]
* [http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2000/speaker-RM.shtml Linux 2000 UK Linux Developers' Conference.]
* [http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2003/02/msg00559.html SLUG codefest February, 2003.]
* [http://www.rasterman.com/ Carsten "Rasterman" Haitzler's private website]