Michael Meeks (software developer)
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Michael Meeks | |
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 Michael Meeks at the OpenOffice.org conference 2007 in Barcelona, Spain | |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Software developer for Collabora |
| Call sign | mmeeks |
| Website | http://www.gnome.org/~michael/ |
Michael Meeks is a British software developer. He is primarily known for his work on GNOME, OpenOffice.org and now LibreOffice[citation needed]. He has been a major contributor[citation needed] to the GNOME project for a long time working on its infrastructure and associated applications, particularly CORBA, Bonobo, Nautilus and GNOME accessibility.[1] He was hired as a Ximian developer by Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza in mid-2000 [citation needed], continuing at Novell, SuSE and then Collabora.[2]
Meeks is a free software hacker who has contributed a lot of time to decreasing program load time[citation needed]. He created the direct binding, hashvals, and dynsort implementations for GNU Binutils and glibc [citation needed]. Most of this work was focused at making OpenOffice.org and now its fork LibreOffice start faster [citation needed], and was later subsumed into the "-hash-style=gnu" linking optimization [citation needed]. His work on iogrind also allows applications to be profiled and optimized to first-time (or 'cold') start far more rapidly [citation needed].
He supports LibreOffice and Evolution as the free software solutions for document editing and groupware.[3]
Previously he worked for Quantel gaining expertise in real time AV editing and playback achieved with high performance focused hardware/software solutions.[citation needed]
Meeks is a Christian, which he says made him think about the moral aspects of his own illegal use of non-free software and converted him finally to free software.[1]
References
- ^ a b James, Daniel (2007-05-07). "Meek not geek — Interview with Michael Meeks of OpenOffice.org". Tux Deluxe. Frank Pohlmann. Archived from the original on 2011-01-04.
- ^ Meeks, Michael (3 September 2013). "Collabora and LibreOffice". Stuff Michael Meeks is doing (blog). Retrieved 1 October 2013.
- ^ Kwang, Kevin (2010-12-23). "OSS recommended picks for business users". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 2011-01-04.