Michael Meeks (software developer)
| Michael Meeks | |
|---|---|
 Michael Meeks at the OpenOffice.org conference 2007 in Barcelona, Spain | |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Software developer for Collabora |
| Home town | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| 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. He has been a major contributor 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 , 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. He created the direct binding, hashvals, and dynsort implementations for GNU Binutils and glibc . Most of this work was focused at making OpenOffice.org and now its fork LibreOffice start faster , and was later subsumed into the "-hash-style=gnu" linking optimization . His work on iogrind also allows applications to be profiled and optimized to first-time (or 'cold') start far more rapidly .
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.
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
- 1 2 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.