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<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <title>Stuff Michael Meeks is doing</title> </head> <body bgcolor=white> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <h1>Stuff Michael Meeks is doing</h1> </td> <td align="right"><a href="http://www.collaboracloudsuite.com/"><image src="monkey.png" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit <a href="http://www.collaboraoffice.com/">Collabora Productivity</a> a subsidiary of Collabora focusing on LibreOffice support and services for whom I work. Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten yourself by going to <a href="http://www.christian-thinktank.com/">Unraveling Wittgenstein's net</a> or if you are feeling objectionable perhaps <a href="http://www.christian-thinktank.com/objedex.html">here</a>. Failing that, there are all manner of interesting things to read on the <a href="http://planet.documentfoundation.org/">LibreOffice Planet news feed</a>. <p> Older items: <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2023/index.html">2023</a>: ( <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2023/Jan/index.html">J</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2023/Feb/index.html">F</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2023/Mar/index.html">M</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2023/Apr/index.html">A</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2023/May/index.html">M</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2023/Jun/index.html">J</a> ), <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2022/index.html">2022</a>: ( <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2022/Jan/index.html">J</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2022/Feb/index.html">F</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2022/Mar/index.html">M</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2022/Apr/index.html">A</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2022/May/index.html">M</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2022/Jun/index.html">J</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2022/Jul/index.html">J</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2022/Aug/index.html">A</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2022/Sep/index.html">S</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2022/Oct/index.html">O</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2022/Nov/index.html">N</a> <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2022/Dec/index.html">D</a> ), <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2021/index.html">2021</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2020/index.html">2019</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2018/index.html">2018</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2017/index.html">2017</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2016/index.html">2016</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2015/index.html">2015</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2014/index.html">2014</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2013/index.html">2013</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2012/index.html">2012</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2011/index.html">2011</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2010/index.html">2010</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2010/index.html">2009</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2009/index.html">2009</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2008/index.html">2008</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2007/index.html">2007</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2006/index.html">2006</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2005/index.html">2005</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2004/index.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2003/index.html">2003</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2002/index.html">2002</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2001/index.html">2001</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2000/index.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/1999/index.html">1999</a>, <a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/archive/activity.html">legacy html</a> </p> <hr>  <h3><a href="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-02-12.html" name="2025-02-12">2025-02-12 Wednesday</a></h3> <div class="blosxomStory"> <ul>  <li> Cartoon drawing update with Dave, getting nicely ahead. Partner call. </li> <li> Published the next strip: celebrating working together <center> <a href="https://www.collaboraonline.com/torf/torf5"><img src="https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/images/torf5-thumb.jpeg" alt="The Open Road to Freedom - strip#5 - celebrating working together" /></a> </center> </li> <li> Pleased to see my FOSDEM talk videos released: <a href="https://video.fosdem.org/2025/h1308/fosdem-2025-6579-collabora-online-richer-collaboration.av1.webm">Collabora Online - richer collaboration</a>, <a href="https://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDEM/video/2025/h2213/fosdem-2025-5935-automatic-documents-packed-with-content-and-signed.av1.webm">Automatic Documents packed with content and signed</a>, and <a href="https://video.fosdem.org/2025/h2213/fosdem-2025-5932-cool-libreoffice-technology-in-the-browser.av1.webm">COOL – LibreOffice Technology in the browser</a>, the recording teams do such an amazing job there. </li> <li> More calls; excited to see the OSBA Tendering guidelines go live in English: <a href="https://osb-alliance.de/english/selection-criteria-for-the-sustainable-procurement-of-open-source-software-press-release">announcement</a>, and my take in <a href="https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/buying-open-source-safely/">more detail</a>. Ensuring that well meaning FLOSS procurers don't get scammed into buying the worst lack of support and maintenance possible is vital to FLOSS sustainability I think. </li> </ul> </div> <hr> <p> My content in this blog and associated images / data under <code>images/</code> and <code>data/</code> directories are (usually) created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a <i>CC0</i> license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes / improvements / corrections by private mail. </p> <p> In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE, Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International), or anyone else. It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200314183433/http://ftp.gnome.org/conspiracy/">Conspiracy</a>. Occasionally people ask for formal photos for <a href="http://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/mugs/">conferences</a> or <a href="mug.jpeg">fun</a>. <address>Michael Meeks (<a href="mailto:michael.meeks@collabora.com">michael.meeks@collabora.com</a>)</address> </p> <right> <a href="http://pyblosxom.github.com/">Made with Pyblosxom</a> </right> </body> </html>