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HAVOC TIMELINE
- Grew up in Georgia.
- Graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in Anthropology, 1998.
- Worked as a programmer for a year at EMC Capital Management.
- Went to work at Red Hat in Raleigh, NC, joining "Red Hat Advanced Development Labs" in Summer 1999. fvwm and the like were still the standard GUI for Linux, and we set out to fix it together with the GNOME community and others.
- Chaired the "steering committee" that created the GNOME Foundation and then chaired the foundation board for a couple of years. Founded freedesktop.org around 2001 as well.
- Wrote lots of code for the Linux desktop, GTK+, and so forth.
- Hired many of Red Hat's desktop-related developers; managed a team as it grew from a half-dozen to around 25 over time.
- Relocated to Boston, MA in 2004.
- Cofounder of the Mugshot project at Red Hat.
- Technical director at litl since 2008.
- Relocated to Asheville, NC in 2009.
HAVOC NAME
Since everyone asks: yes my name is Havoc Pennington. This is not a 1337 h4x0r
handle, it says this on my passport. It is my parents' doing. Havoc is my middle
name, but I have always gone by it since childhood.