Federico Mena
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| Federico Mena Quintero | |
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| Nationality | Mexican |
| Occupation | computer programmer |
| Known for | GNOME |
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Federico Mena Quintero is a Mexican computer programmer.
He wrote the GNOME Canvas while working at Red Hat. He also maintained GIMP for a time, and was one of the first hires at Ximian, now owned by Novell, where he still works. Along with Miguel de Icaza, Federico founded the GNOME project.
He attended [1] Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM), where he met Icaza, to study computer science; he left there to work at Red Hat in the United States. He's lived most of his life in Mexico City, but currently lives in Xalapa, Veracruz, with his wife, Oralia.
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- ^ http://conasol.utalca.cl/biografias/federico.html Federico Mena's Autobiography
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