Mark Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur born in 1973 in Welcom, Free State, South Africa. He was one of the original developers of Debian Linux and founded Thawte, a digital certificate company, in 1995. In 2001, he formed the Shuttleworth Foundation and in 2002 became the first African in space as a space tourist. He began funding the development of the Ubuntu Linux distribution in 2004 and founded the Ubuntu Foundation in 2005 with an initial $10 million investment. In 2010, he received an honorary degree from the Open University for his work with Ubuntu and FOSS.

1. Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Richard Shuttleworth
Here be dragons
http://www.markshuttleworth.com

3. Mini-Bio
• Born 18 September 1973
• Born Place: Welcom,Free State, South Africa
• Business Science Degree in Finance and
Information Systems(Cape Town)

4. Involvement in Linux and FOSS
• 1990: One of the developers of Debian

5. • 1995: Founded Thawte
(digital certificates and internet security)
Sold to Verisign(99)

6. • 2001: Formed Shuttle Worth Foundation

7. • 2002: Space tourist, the first ever African in
Space

8. • 2004: Start funding the development of
Ubuntu

9. • 2005: Founded Ubuntu Foundation
(initial investment: 10 million dollar)

10. • 2009:
Mark announced that, effective March 2010,
he would step down as CEO of Canonical to
focus energy on product design, partnership
and customers.

11. • 2010 :
Received an honorary degree from the Open
University for this work.

12. “Ubuntu is Debian’s arrow,
Debian is Ubuntu’s bow.”

13. Pyae Sone(Gipsy)
gipsyhnh@gmail.com
www.gipsy3.co.cc