at
linux.conf.au 2014. Packard gained a BA in mathematics from
Reed College,
Oregon in 1986. He worked at
Tektronix, Inc. in
Wilsonville, Oregon designing
X terminals and
Unix workstations from 1983 until 1988. He then moved to
Cambridge, Massachusetts to work at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology X Consortium from 1988 to 1992, developing the X Window System reference implementation and
standards as the senior member of a small team. He was responsible for X releases at this time. In 1992 he returned to
Portland, Oregon to work for
Network Computing Devices on X terminals and computer graphics. From 1999 he worked for
SuSE from his home in
Portland, Oregon on the
XFree86 implementation of X. He worked at the Cambridge Research Labs of
Compaq (and then
Hewlett-Packard) from 2001 until 2005 when the lab closed down. In 2003 he was ejected from
XFree86. This led to the formation of the successful
X.Org Server fork. He is now project lead on the
X.org project, the official
reference implementation of the
X Window System. Packard became a
Debian Developer in 2004, maintaining
font-config (as well as being the upstream maintainer) and other packages. Packard began working for
Intel in August 2006. Packard joined Debian's Technical committee in November 2013. Packard started working at
Hewlett-Packard's
HP Labs in January 2015. Packard started consulting for
Valve in March 2017. Packard left HP Labs to join
SiFive in July 2019, working on free software for
RISC-V-based processors, among other tasks. Packard joined
Amazon in May 2021. ==Other interests==