Geoffrey Knauth

Geoffrey S. Knauth is a software engineer, and currently serves as president of the Free Software Foundation since August 2020.[1]

FSF activities

Knauth joined the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Board of Directors in 1998 as treasurer.[2] He is also co-founder of the GNU Objective-C project.[2] On August 5, 2020, it was announced that Knauth had been elected as president of FSF.[3][4][5][6] The election took place about 11 months following the resignation of Richard Stallman who had been its president since he founded the FSF in 1985.

Academic background

Knauth received a artium baccalaureus (A.B. or Bachelor of Arts) degree from Harvard College in 1983 in Economics. He also took many courses on Slavic languages and literatures there. Later in the late 1980s and 2000s he also took additional computer science and language courses both at Harvard and Northeastern University. In 2006-2010 he served as a Computer Science Instructor at Lycoming College.[2][7]

Professional experience

Knauth has been employed by various companies, in various roles including programmer, senior associate, systems engineer, and systems analyst.[1] Knauth is currently employed by AccuWeather Inc. as a Senior Software Developer since March 2014.[2][7]

Personal life

Knauth is fluent in English, Russian and French, with some knowledge of German and Chinese. He is also a pilot and has been involved with rowing and various other activities.[2][1]

gollark: The sun is much more dangerous than a nuclear power plant. Consider skin cancer.
gollark: Just change your computer's time zone.
gollark: In practice, most rules are going to end up very selectively enforced unless they are also very lax.
gollark: I mean, they are somewhat, but worshipping hard work as a terminal value is stupid.
gollark: The alternative is probably Chrome, which is terrible and spies on you constantly.

See also

References
  1. "FSF Staff and Board". FSF website. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  2. "Résumé of Geoffrey S. Knauth" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  3. "Geoffrey Knauth elected Free Software Foundation president; Odile Bénassy joins the board". 2020-08-05. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  4. "Statement from FSF's new president, Geoffrey Knauth". 2020-08-05. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  5. Larabel, Michael (2020-08-05). "FSF Has Finally Elected A New President". Phoronix. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  6. Prakash, Abhishek (2020-08-06). "Almost a Year After Richard Stallman Was 'Cancelled', Free Software Foundation has Elected a new President". It's FOSS. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  7. "LinkedIn profile of Geoffrey S. Knauth". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
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