Michael Meeks (software developer)

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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 known for his work on GNOME and OpenOffice.org primarily. He has been a major contributor to the Gnome project for a long time.

Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic believer in Free software. He very much enjoys working for Novell Inc. He has worked on Gnome infrastructure and applications, particularly CORBA, Bonobo, Nautilus and accessibility, amongst other interesting things.

Michael Meeks is an open source 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 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.

Michael now works full-time on OpenOffice.org.

Previously he worked for Quantel gaining expertise in real time AV editing and playback achieved with high performance focused hardware / software solutions.

External links

There are many interviews and references to Michael's work online.

Interviews:

Michael Meeks' email signature is quite unique: "<><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot"

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