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    Miguel De Icasa is a Mexican software developer and open source pioneer. He studied mathematics at UNAM but left before graduating to work in IT. He started writing free software in 1992, including the Midnight Commander file manager for Linux. In 1997, De Icasa co-founded the GNOME project to create a free desktop environment. He later co-founded Helix Code and its successor Ximian to develop the Mono project for implementing .NET on Linux. De Icasa has received several awards for his contributions to free and open source software development.

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    Miguel De Icasa is a Mexican software developer and open source pioneer. He studied mathematics at UNAM but left before graduating to work in IT. He started writing free software in 1992, including the Midnight Commander file manager for Linux. In 1997, De Icasa co-founded the GNOME project to create a free desktop environment. He later co-founded Helix Code and its successor Ximian to develop the Mono project for implementing .NET on Linux. De Icasa has received several awards for his contributions to free and open source software development.

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    Miguel De Icasa is a Mexican software developer and open source pioneer. He studied mathematics at UNAM but left before graduating to work in IT. He started writing free software in 1992, including the Midnight Commander file manager for Linux. In 1997, De Icasa co-founded the GNOME project to create a free desktop environment. He later co-founded Helix Code and its successor Ximian to develop the Mono project for implementing .NET on Linux. De Icasa has received several awards for his contributions to free and open source software development.

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    Biography Presentation

    Miguel De Icasa (23 Nov. 1972)

    PRESENTED BY:
    KANISHKA GOUR
    M.C.A. 5TH YEAR
    U.I.M., NAINI, ALLAHABAD
    Biography
     Early years
    De Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied
    Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of
    Mexico(UNAM), but dropped out before getting a
    degree to work in IT. He came from a family of
    scientists in which his father is a physicist and his
    mother a biologist. He started writing free software in
    1992.
     Early software career
    One of the earliest pieces of software he wrote for
    Linux was the Midnight Commander file manager.
    GNOME, Ximian, Xamarin and Mono

     De Icaza started the GNOME project with Federico


    Mena in August 1997 to create a completely free
    desktop environment and component model.

     In May 2011, de Icaza started Xamarin to replace


    MonoTouch and Mono for Android but the project
    were abandoned. Shortly afterwards, Xamarin and
    Novell reached an agreement where Xamarin took
    over the development and sales of these products
     In 1999, de Icaza, along with Nat Friedman, co-
    founded Helix Code, a GNOME-oriented free
    software company that employed a large number of
    other GNOME hackers. In 2001, Helix Code, later
    renamed Ximian, announced the Mono Project, to
    be led by de Icaza, with the goal to
    implement Microsoft's new .NET development
    platform on Linux and Unix-like platforms. In August
    2003, Ximian was acquired by Novell. There, de Icaza
    was Vice President of Developer Platform.
    Awards and recognition
     Miguel de Icaza has received the Free Software
    Foundation 1999 Award for the Advancement of
    Free Software, the MIT Technology
    Review Innovator of the Year Award 1999, and
    was named one of Time magazine's 100
    innovators for the new century in September 2000.
     In March 2010, he was named as the fifth in the
    "Most Powerful Voices in Open Source"
    by MindTouch.
    Thank You…!

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