Scott James Remnant
| Scott James Remnant | |
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| Born |
18 July 1980 Sussex, England |
| Residence | San Francisco, CA |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
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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 Chrome OS.[2]
Work
- Ran the Linux humor website Segfault.org[3]
- While a Debian developer, Scott maintained several important packages, notably libtool and dpkg
- Is the author of the Upstart initialization system
- Developed the Planet weblog aggregation system
- He served on the Ubuntu Technical Board until October 2011
Personal life
Scott is openly gay, and believes it important to be open about it to support others in the open source community.[4]
Notes
- ↑ "Monkey Business". Linux Format (96). September 2007. p. 8.
- ↑ "Leaving Canonical". January 2011.
- ↑ "Segfault.org". Web.archive.org. Retrieved 2015-03-31.
- ↑ "Coming Out". 12 October 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
References
- Interview with Remnant by FOSDEM
- Another interview with Remnant focusing on Upstart