Robert Sanford Havoc Pennington is currently a Red Hat Desktop manager/engineer, but his fame in the FLOSS world is big due to his work on GNOME, Metacity, GConf, D-BUS, and more. Before his Red Hat position he was one of the main developers of Debian GNU/Linux. He also founded freedesktop.org. Alternate meanings: See Red hat Red Hat, Inc. ... The phrase Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS; see also the similarly derived FOSS) refers to both Free Software and Open Source Software. ... Jump to: navigation, search The GNU Network Object Model Environment, or 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. ... Metacity is the default window manager for the GNOME desktop environment. ... GConf is a system used by the GNOME desktop environment for storing configuration settings for the desktop and applications. ... D-BUS is the name of a computer software system that provides a simple way for different applications to communicate with each other. ... Debian, organized by the Debian Project, is a widely used distribution of free software developed through the collaboration of volunteers from around the world. ... freedesktop. ...
Pennington is a 1998 graduate of the University of Chicago. Jump to: navigation, search 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ...
Today we are very happy to publish a very interesting Q&A with major freedesktop.org members: the founder HavocPennington (also of Debian, Gnome and Red Hat fame), Waldo Bastian (of SuSE & KDE fame), Keith Packard and Jim Gettys (of X/XFree86/fontconfig/w3c fame) and David Zeuthen, a new member who's taking over the ambitious HAL project.
HavocPennington: Individual developers from all those companies are involved, but there's no framework for corporations to get involved as corporations.
HavocPennington: This is already supported with ATK and the rest of the GNOME accessibility implementation, you can text-to-speech any text displayed via GTK+ today.
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