Education
Havoc Pennington graduated from the University of Chicago in 1998.
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Havoc Pennington
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Career
He is known in the free software community due to his work on HAL, GNOME, Metacity, GConf, and Doctorate-BUS.
After graduation, he worked at Red Hat as a Desktop manager/engineer for 9 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.
Foreign 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). Since then, he has worked for Typesafe.
