Michael Meeks (software developer)

This article is about the software developer. For the basketball player, see Michael Meeks (basketball).

Michael Meeks
Nationality	British
Occupation	Software developer for Novell, Inc.
Home town	Cambridge, United Kingdom
Call-sign	mmeeks
Website
http://www.gnome.org/~michael/

Michael Meeks is a software developer and was hired as a Ximian developer by Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza in mid 2000. 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 Gnome infrastructure and associated applications, particularly CORBA, Bonobo, Nautilus and Gnome accessibility.^[1] He currently works for Novell.^[2]

Meeks is an open source 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 Open Source solutions for document editing and groupware.^[2]

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 made him think about moral aspects of illegal use of non-free software and converted him finally to free software.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{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. http://www.webcitation.org/5vUkqeqKr. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Kwang, Kevin (2010-12-23). "OSS recommended picks for business users". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 2011-01-04. http://www.webcitation.org/5vUngwKPA. 

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