Gervase Markham (programmer)
Gervase Markham (born June 1978) is a British Software Engineer for the Mozilla Foundation,[1] and a lead developer of Bugzilla. He started contributing to the Mozilla project in 1999,[1] and became the youngest paid employee of Mozilla.org at age 23 after he graduated from Oxford University.[2]
Markham is named after his paternal grandfather Canon Gervase Markham (1910-2007),[3] the squire and vicar of Morland near Penrith; both are related to the 16th-century poet and writer Gervase Markham. According to his Times obituary, the elder Gervase Markham was a descendant of William Markham, Archbishop of York (1710–1807).[4]
In 2006, he won a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award as "Best Community Activist".[5] He has also presented to the FOSDEM conference for several years about the Mozilla Foundation activities and Bugzilla.
Markham is a born-again Christian, and has been undergoing treatment for metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma. He has written about both, and the relationship he sees between them.[6] He has also written in opposition to same-sex marriage.[7]
References
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- ↑ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3141694.ece
- ↑ Canon Markham's obituary The Times 7 January 2008.
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