David Reveman

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David Reveman
David Reveman
Country Sweden
Residence Boston, USA
Date of birth March 28, 1980 (1980-03-28) (age 28)
Place of birth Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden
Height 1.79 m (5'10")
Weight 68 kg (150 lb.)
Abbreviation davidr
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Employed since December 1, 2004
Employer Novell, Inc.
Open Source
Main project: compiz
Contributions: compiz, xorg, cairo, mesa, waimea
Ohloh Highest ranking: 8

Infobox last updated on: June 9, 2007.

David Reveman is a software developer. He was at the Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Sweden, and was hired as a SUSE Linux developer by Novell in early 2005.

Reveman is known for his work on glitz, Xgl and Compiz and the window manager WAIMEA.

David co-presented with Nat Friedman during Novell BrainShare 2007. He was quoted by The Salt Lake Tribune saying: "We can do pretty much anything now, our imagination is the limit." This keynote address was the first that time David's work on input transformation was demonstrated to a large audience.