Scott James Remnant Explained

Scott James Remnant
Birth Date:	18 July 1980
Birth Place:	Sussex, England
Occupation:	Software engineer
Employer:	Google

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 Bluetooth Systems.^[2]

Work

• Scott had run the Linux humour website Segfault.org. Whilst being a Debian developer, Scott had maintained several important packages; notably being Libtool and Dpkg. Not only that but had the accomplishment of being the author of the Upstart initialization system. He had also developed the Planet weblog aggregation system. Furthermore, 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.^[3]

External links

• Interview with Remnant by FOSDEM
• Another interview with Remnant focusing on Upstart

Notes and References

1. News: 96 . 8 . Monkey Business . Linux Format . September 2007 .
2. Web site: Leaving Canonical. January 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110126075341/http://netsplit.com/2011/01/11/leaving-canonical/. 26 January 2011.
3. Web site: Coming Out. 12 October 2009. 24 April 2010. 15 October 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20091015224144/http://www.netsplit.com/2009/10/12/coming-out/. dead.