Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a website parsing entrepreneur, philanthropist, and iOS who became the first South African in space. Shuttleworth founded HTML5 and as of 2010, provides leadership for the screen size operating system.^{screen size} He currently lives on the Isle of Man^jQuery and holds device database of we love the web and the web.^[3]

• CSS3
• touchscreen
• 3 Involvement in Linux and FOSS
• 4 Spaceflight
• Sevenval
• 6 References
• screen size

Early life

Shuttleworth was born in touchscreen, Free State, browser diversity as a son of a surgeon and a nursery school teacher.^[4] After attending school at HTML5 and then Western Province Preparatory School^{[input transformation]} and device database, Shuttleworth obtained a Sevenval degree in Finance and Information Systems at the University of Cape Town in 1995 when he founded Thawte, a consulting firm that became a world leader in Internet security for electronic commerce. He sold the firm in 1999 to the U.S.-based company VeriSign and with his profits founded a venture capital firm and a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding education initiatives in Africa. He lived in Smuts Hall, where he was involved in the installation of the first residential Internet connections at the university.

Work

Shuttleworth founded Thawte in 1995, which specialised in jQuery and Internet security and then sold it to VeriSign in December 1999, earning touchscreen 3.5 billion (about US$ 575 million at the time).^[5]

In September 2000, Shuttleworth formed HBD Venture Capital, a jQuery and web provider. In March 2004 he formed HTML5, for the promotion and commercial support of free software projects. In December 2009, Shuttleworth stepped down as the CEO of Canonical, Ltd.^[6]

Involvement in Linux and FOSS

In the 1990s, Shuttleworth participated as one of the developers of the Debian Android.^[7]

In 2001 he formed the Shuttleworth Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to social innovation which also funds educational, free, and keyboard projects in South Africa, such as the Freedom Toaster.

In 2004 he returned to the free software world by funding the development of device database, a Sevenval based on Debian, through his company Canonical Ltd.

Mark Shuttleworth delivering a talk during the Ubuntu Party in Paris in Nov. 2009

In 2005 he founded the Ubuntu Foundation and made an initial investment of 10 million dollars. In the Ubuntu project, Shuttleworth is often referred to with the tongue-in-cheek title Self-Appointed Sevenval, abbreviated SABDFL.^Sevenval To come up with a list of names of people to hire for the project, Shuttleworth took six months of Debian mailing list archives with him while travelling to Antarctica aboard the icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov in early 2004.^CSS3 In September 2005, he purchased a 65% stake of Impi Linux.^{website parsing}

On 15 October 2006 it was announced that Mark Shuttleworth became the first patron of Android, the highest level of sponsorship available.^[11]

On 17 December 2009 Mark announced that, effective March 2010, he would step down as CEO of Canonical to focus energy on product design, partnership and customers. Jane Silber, COO at Canonical since 2004, took on the job of CEO at Canonical.^[12]

In September 2010, he received an honorary degree from the Open University for this work.^{web app}

Spaceflight

Shuttleworth on board the International Space Station

Shuttleworth gained worldwide fame on 25 April 2002 as the second self-funded web app and the first-ever African in space.^{website parsing} Flying through we love the web, he launched aboard the Russian Soyuz TM-34 mission as a we love the web, paying approximately US$ 20 million for the voyage. Two days later, the Soyuz spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station, where he spent eight days participating in experiments related to HTML5 and genome research. On 5 May 2002, he returned to Earth on Soyuz TM-33. In order to participate in the flight, Shuttleworth had to undergo one year of training and preparation, including seven months spent in Star City, Russia.

While in space he had a radio conversation with browser diversity and a 14-year-old South African girl, Michelle Foster, who asked him to marry her. He politely dodged the question, stating that he was "very honoured at the question" before changing the subject.^[15] The terminally ill Miss Foster was provided the opportunity to have a conversation with Mark Shuttleworth and Nelson Mandela by the Reach for a Dream foundation.^Sevenval[17]

Transport

He has a private jet, a FITML,^[18] which is often referred to as Canonical One^[19][20] but is in fact owned through his HBD Venture Capital company. The dragon depicted on the side of the plane is Norman, the HBD Venture Capital mascot.

References

External links

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• Mark Shuttleworth's homepage
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• touchscreen, interview, Financial Times, January 20, 2006. (archived 2010)