Michael Meeks

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**Michael Meeks**

Country	UK
Residence	Cambridge, UK
Date of birth	June 18, 1977 (1977-06-18) (age 30)
Place of birth	London, United Kingdom
Height	1.88 m (6'2)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb.)
Abbreviation	mmeeks
Footnotes	-
Website	http://www.gnome.org/~michael/
Blog	http://www.gnome.org/~michael/
Employed since	June 1, 2000
Employer	Novell, Inc.
Open Source
Main project:	OpenOffice.org
Contributions:	OpenOffice.org, GNOME
Ohloh Highest ranking:	8
Infobox last updated on: September 19, 2007.

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.

Meeks is a Christian and enthusiastic believer in free software.^{[citation needed]} He has worked on Gnome infrastructure and associated applications, particularly CORBA, Bonobo, Nautilus and Gnome accessibility.

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.

Meeks 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.

His email signature is the unusual "<><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot".