Speaker - Keith Packard

Keith Packard has been developing free software since 1986, working on the X Window System, Linux, amateur rocketry and educational robotics. He is currently a Principle Engineer at SiFive working on RISC-V system software, including Linux, u-Boot, QEMU, Zephyr and GCC. Keith has taught computer programming to students from ages 10-17 using LEGO robotics for over fifteen years and started the Snek Language project to use in that work. He received a Usenix Lifetime Achievement award in 1999, an O'Reilly Open Source award in 2011 and sits on the X.org foundation board. Keith uses he, him and his pronouns.