Federico Mena Quintero is a Mexican computer programmer. In computing, a programmer is someone who does computer programming and develops computer software. ...

He wrote the GNOME Canvas while working at Red Hat. He also maintained The GIMP for a time, and was one of the first hires at Ximian, now Novell, where he still works. Along with Miguel de Icaza, Federico founded the GNOME project. The GNOME project is an international effort to create an easy-to-use computer desktop environment built entirely from software considered free by the Free Software Foundation. ... Alternate meanings: See Red hat Red Hat, Inc. ... Often, the name GIMP is used erroneously for the Gimp-Print printer driver set. ... Ximian was a company that provided open source desktop applications for Linux and UNIX based on the GNOME platform. ... Novell, Inc. ... Miguel de Icaza, making a parody of Bill Gates photos after Microsoft Windows 1. ... The GNOME project is an international effort to create an easy-to-use computer desktop environment built entirely from software considered free by the Free Software Foundation. ...

He attended Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM), where he met de Icaza, to study computer science; he left there to work at Red Hat in the US. He's lived most of his life in Mexico City, but currently lives in Xalapa, Veracruz, with his wife. The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; abbreviation: UNAM) was founded in 1551, and is now the largest university in Latin America and it is considered the best University of this region based on the Beijing University and the London Times suplemments. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Computer Science Open Directory Project: Computer Science Downloadable Science and Computer Science books Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Belief that title science in computer science is inappropriate Categories: | ... Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the name of a megacity located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus (altiplano) at the center of Mexico, about 2,240 metres (7,349 feet) above sea-level, surrounded on most sides... Xalapa or Jalapa is the capital city of the Mexican state of Veracruz. ... Veracruz is the name of both a state in Mexico and that states largest city. ...

External links

• Federico Mena's Homepage
• Federico Mena's Autobiography