Keyman team - about Steven R. Loomis
Developer - Core
I’ve long been interested in languages, accessibility, and input—and computers. These didn't always intersect. I built a chorded keyboard after hearing Steven K. Roberts speak. My keyboard had eight switches, one for each bit of ASCII. In grade school I used to doodle circuits for the micromouse competition, or for refreshable braille displays. I spent a year working on the island of Malta, for a more international perspective. Later, I helped start the Maltese Wikipedija and was involved in language standardization. I first ran into Keyman through the Windows keyboard driver that was licensed through the government of Malta.
After a long run with IBM’s Corporate Globalization team, I set out on my own in 2020, with my own consultancy Code Hive Tx, LLC based in Dripping Springs, near Austin, Texas, USA. Besides corporate globalization projects, I continue to contribute to Unicode’s Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), and chair its Digitally Disadvantaged Languages working group.
As for Keyboards, I have been involved in LDML Keyboards as the CLDR spec editor, and have been involved in the implementation of LDML in Keyman, both on the compiler (kmc) and runtime (core) portions.
