Nationality American Role Software engineer | Name Havoc Pennington Employer Typesafe Inc. | |
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Full Name Robert Sanford Havoc Pennington Books GTK+/Gnome Application Development | ||
Bryan Clark and Havoc Pennington–Online Desktop
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.
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- Bryan Clark and Havoc PenningtonOnline Desktop
- Futures Functions by Havoc Pennington Triangle Scala Meetup 6115
- History
- Publications
- References
Futures & Functions - by Havoc Pennington (Triangle Scala Meetup 6/1/15)
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 was also one of the main developers of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and also founded the project freedesktop.org in 2000. He promoted the idea of the Gnome Online Desktop in 2007. 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).