Michael Meeks (software developer)
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Michael Meeks at the OpenOffice.org conference 2007 in Barcelona, Spain
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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[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]
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- Articles with hCards
- Articles with unsourced statements from April 2014
- Articles with unsourced statements from November 2014
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- British Christians
- British computer programmers
- GNOME developers
- Living people
- People educated at Christ's Hospital
- Technology evangelists
- LibreOffice