Stuart Langridge | |
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| Born | January 30, 1976 |
Stuart Langridge (also known as 'Aq' [1] or 'Zippy' [2] ) is a podcaster, developer and author. He became a member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force, [3] an invited expert on the W3C HTML Working Group and is an acknowledged commentator on W3C Document Object Model and JavaScript techniques.
Langridge is known as a presenter of the now defunct LugRadio, which was a free software podcast in the UK. Along with Jono Bacon, he was the longest-serving member of the team and often served to incite discussion about issues that more directly related to software freedom. [4] In LugRadio he frequently advocated freedom, yet despite this often attracted criticism for using proprietary software. [5]
Langridge was involved in the Shot of Jaq podcast, in collaboration with his former Lugradio co-host Jono Bacon. He's now a part of the Bad Voltage podcast, together with Jono Bacon and Jeremy Garcia (founder of LinuxQuestions.org). Bryan Lunduke (founder of Jupiter Broadcasting) was also a founder member of the Bad Voltage podcast but has since moved on due to other commitments. The podcast first aired in October 2013.
He has worked on projects including Jokosher, a multi-track audio editor for GNOME, and Jackfield, a program to run Mac OS X Dashboard widgets under GNOME. [6]
In January 2009 Langridge joined Canonical as a developer and left the company in 2013 to work as a freelancer for Kryogenix's consulting. [7] At Canonical he worked on the Desktop Couch [8] for Ubuntu in his role as Canonical Ltd. staffer.
Langridge has written two books for technical publisher SitePoint, DHTML Utopia, [9] and Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache [10] (with Tony Steidler-Dennison) as well as writing the Stylish Scripting weblog [9] during 2005.
Nathaniel Dourif Friedman is an American technology executive and investor. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of GitHub, and former Chairman of the GNOME Foundation. Friedman is currently a board member at the Arc Institute, and an advisor of Midjourney.
Jonathan Edward James Bacon is a writer and software engineer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California. He works as a consultant on community strategy.
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Benjamin Mako Hill is a free software activist, hacker, author, and professor. He is a contributor and free software developer as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects as well as the co-author of three technical manuals on the subject, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, and The Official Ubuntu Book.
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Jokosher is a free software, non-linear multi-track digital audio editor, released under the GPL-2.0-only. It is written in Python, using the GTK+ interface and GStreamer as an audio back-end, initially just for the Linux operating system but also with support for Windows.
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Jeremy Garcia is a writer, podcaster, speaker and founder of LinuxQuestions.org. He was born in Buffalo, New York and attended the University at Buffalo.
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