This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.Find sources: "Scott James Remnant" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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

Ran the Linux humor website Segfault.org^[3]
While a Debian developer, Scott maintained several important packages, notably libtool and dpkg
Is the author of the Upstart initialization system
Developed the Planet weblog aggregation system
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.^[4]