Chris Montgomery

Christopher “Monty” Montgomery is the creator of the Ogg Free Software container format and Vorbis audio codec and others, and the founder of The Xiph Foundation which promotes public domain multimedia Codecs. He is also known as “Monty” and “Montay”^[1] and uses xiphmont as an online pseudonym.

A veteran multimedia programmer, long standing open source advocate and accomplished musician,^[2] Monty resides in the Boston area. He works for Red Hat on improving the quality of Ogg Theora format and decoders.

Montgomery was the evening keynote at the Ohio LinuxFest in September 2010.

External links

• Montgomery's blog on LiveJournal

References

1. ^ Advogato interview
2. ^ Interview with Montgomery

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