Olivier Fourdan Explained

Olivier Fourdan is the creator of the Xfce desktop environment, for which development began at the end of 1996.^[1] ^[2]

He started his career as a new technologies production engineer as well as in web development and embedded Linux systems.^[3]

Fourdan has been working for Red Hat since 2007, interrupted by 2 years at Intel during 2013 and 2014. As of 2017, he is active in the adoption of Wayland, working on many different components, amongst them GTK, Mutter, GNOME Control Center, XWayland, and Mesa3D.^[4] ^[5] ^[6]

Notes and References

News: Programmieren zum Wohl der Menschheit . Programming for the benefit of mankind . de . 24 July 2011 . . 9 November 2014. Borchers . Detlef .
http://www.malavida.com/es/analisis/la-historia-de-linux-nacimiento-crecimiento-y-madurez-de-un-pinguino-005489#gref La historia de Linux: nacimiento, crecimiento y madurez de un pingüino
Web site: Xfce creator talks Linux, Moblin, netbooks and open-source . Then . Ewdison . 6 February 2009 . SlashGear . 9 November 2014.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=describeuser.html&login=ofourdan%40redhat.com Oliver Fourdan currently open on Gnome bug tracker
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&f1=attachments.ispatch&f2=attachments.submitter&list_id=186627&o2=allwordssubstr&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity&query_based_on=&query_format=advanced&v2=fourdan Oliver Fourdan submitted patches at Gnome Bugtracker
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=PLEASETEST&f1=attachments.submitter&f2=attachments.ispatch&list_id=605074&o1=anywordssubstr&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cbug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&query_format=advanced&v1=fourdan Patches from Olivier Fourdan on Freedekstop.org