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Scott Shawcroft
Student, University of Washington

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Scott is a June 2009 graduate of the University of Washington with a degree in Computer Engineering.

He has created a number of unheard of open source projects such as Denu, Keystroke and Annoamp.

Most notably, he reverse engineered Apple’s multitouch in his program touchd which laid the ground work for the BCM5974 kernel driver.

Over the last three years he has interned at Creative Commons and Google. Soon he will become a full-time Googler.

Sessions

2:35pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Tracking Package Freshness

Linux
Location: Ballroom A2

Scott Shawcroft (University of Washington)

Come find out which distribution is best... at keeping their official repositories up to date. Or which distribution has the most up to date LAMP packages. This presentation explores trends culled from package releases since October '08, discusses the challenge of making sense of it all and possible improvements to distribution and package maintenance. Read more.

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Scott Shawcroft Student, University of Washington