rrthomas

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FLOSS developer and maintainer.

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/rrthomas

• Name: Reuben Thomas
• Location: London, UK
• Kind: user
• Followers: 142
• Following: 0
• Total stars: 1466
• Repositories count: 228
• Created at: 2022-11-02T16:49:44.004Z
• Updated at: 2025-06-05T18:45:47.701Z
• Last synced at: 2025-06-05T18:45:47.701Z

GitHub Sponsors Profile

I've been a free software developer and maintainer since the mid-1990s. I have contributed to dozens of projects, and I'm good at working effectively with new collaborators.
I maintain many programs in the area of text processing and editing, such as

The spell-checking library Enchant
The character set converter Recode
The text printing utility GNU a2ps
The lightweight Emacs clone GNU Zile
The PDF utility pdfjam
The PostScript utility psutils

I also contribute to many other projects such:

GNU Emacs
GNU autotools (automake, gnulib etc.)
Racket (Scheme implementation and IDE)
Vala (programming language)

I am a Debian Maintainer (that's a junior Debian Developer!), and I help package some of the programs I maintain for Debian.
I am also an accomplished technical writer and editor. Larger projects include proof-reading Mastering Ethereum and translating Elements of Automata Theory from French into English. I constantly improve free software source code comments, documentation and web sites, fixing typos, correcting technical errors, and improving clarity. I understand the problems non-native users of English typically have, and am adept both at writing clearly for non-native readers, and understanding what non-native writers mean, so as to reword it more comprehensibly.
Sponsorship enables me to spend more of my time on this work, particularly keeping uncool but tried-and-tested code working well, and improving tools for other free software developers.

• Current Sponsors: 2
• Past Sponsors: 0
• Total Sponsors: 2
• Minimum Sponsorship: $10.00

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