Editing Spencer Kimball (computer programmer) (section)

==Early life and education==

Kimball was born in 1974 to a [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Latter-day Saint]] family. He attended the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]]. While still a student in 1995, he developed the first version of [[GNU Image Manipulation Program]] (GIMP) as a class project, along with his roommate [[Peter Mattis]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wallace|first1=Shawn|title=Perl Graphics Programming: Creating SVG, SWF (flash), JPEG and PNG files with Perl|date=2002|publisher=O'Reily Media Inc.|isbn=9781449358310|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NV_4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA145 |accessdate=July 25, 2015}}</ref><ref name=SpncerMattiGimb>{{cite web|last1=Beane|first1=Zachary|title=Spencer Kimball & Peter Mattis|url=http://www.xach.com/gg/1997/1/profile/1/|website=GIMP Gazette|accessdate=July 25, 2015}}</ref> Kimball was also a member of a student club at Berkeley called the [[eXperimental Computing Facility]] (XCF).<ref name=XCFcodecollege>{{cite web|url=http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2000/12/04/xcf/index.html |title=Free Photoshop for the people |accessdate=August 28, 2006 |last=Frauenheim |first=Ed |date=December 4, 2000 |work=Salon.com}}</ref> During his time with XCF, he co-wrote the code for GIMP.<ref name=XCFcodecollege/> Kimball said in 1999 that, "From the first line of [[source code]] to the last, GIMP was always my 'dues' paid to the [[free software movement]]. After using [[emacs]], [[GNU Compiler Collection|gcc]], [[Linux]], etc., I really felt that I owed a debt to the community which had, to a large degree, shaped my computing development."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-01/lw-01-gimp.html |title=Interview with Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis |accessdate=August 30, 2007|last=Hackvän |first=Stig |date=January 1999 |publisher=LinuxWorld |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/19990417052141/http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-01/lw-01-gimp.html |archivedate = April 17, 1999}}</ref> Kimball graduated with a B.A. in computer science from Berkeley in 1996.{{cn|date=October 2021}}