Keith Packard (Person)

Type: person

Location: Portland

Alias: Keith Packard

Keith Packard
Keith Packard is a legendary software developer best known for his foundational work on the X Window System (X11), including fontconfig, Xft, cairo, and Xrender.
Connection to Me
- Keith was a guest speaker on the September 2003 Linux Lunacy III Geek Cruise, presenting on graphics in X and fonts in Linux.
- During the cruise, I was delighted to discover that Keith was a fellow resident of Portland, Oregon, adding a wonderful local connection to our shared technical travels.

These facts are as Randal recalls them, but much time has passed for most of this. If you find a factual error, please email realmerlyn@gmail.com.

Keith Packard