Michael Meeks

Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic Open Source developer. He runs Collabora's Office division, leading our Collabora Online and Office products, supporting customers and partners alongside our extremely talented team. He has served as a Director of the The Document Foundation and has contributed to both ODF and OOXML standardization. Prior to Collabora he gained a wide experience as a Novell/SUSE Distinguished Engineer working on various pieces of Free Software infrastructure across the Linux stack to from the base-system, boot-time, MeeGo, GNOME, CORBA, Nautilus, Evolution and Open Source accessibility, among others.

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09-23
11:00
30min
An Economic perspective on FLOSS & LibreOffice technology
Michael Meeks

A talk and discussion around FLOSS business models as they related to LibreOffice technology, the ecosystem and funding the future & success of LibreOffice.

g) Business track
Room 1
09-23
12:00
30min
Introduction to problem solving techniques
Michael Meeks

In this session, it will be discussed how to get into the complex problems with problem solving techniques. These ideas will be useful when dealing with the large code base of LibreOffice that has evolved for many years.

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