Scott James Remnant
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Scott James Remnant | |
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| Born | 18 July 1980 Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
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| Website | www |
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[1] at Canonical Ltd. He now works at Google as a Technical Lead on Bluetooth Systems.[2]
Work
[edit]- Scott had run the Linux humour website Segfault.org.[3] 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
[edit]Scott is openly gay, and believes it important to be open about it to support others in the open source community.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Monkey Business". Linux Format. No. 96. September 2007. p. 8.
- ^ "Leaving Canonical". January 2011. Archived from the original on 26 January 2011.
- ^ a b "Coming Out". 12 October 2009. Archived from the original on 15 October 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
External links
[edit]- Interview with Remnant by FOSDEM
- Another interview with Remnant focusing on Upstart
- Official website
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