Björn Michaelsen Explained

Björn Michaelsen
Nationality:German
Callsign:sweetshark
Website:https://skyfromme.wordpress.com/
Occupation:Software developer for freiheit.com
Known For:OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, gbuild, bibisect, etc-proposals

Björn Michaelsen was the Deputy Chairman at The Document Foundation, the legal entity behind LibreOffice.[1]

Research work

Björn Michaelsen studied physics at the University of Hamburg and worked in the area of arms control and peace studies at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy in Hamburg,[2] published his results there[3] [4] before becoming involved in open source and software development.

Software engineering and executive work

Björn Michaelsen is currently employed by freiheit.com, a German software company. Previously he was working for Canonical Ltd. where he was responsible for the packaging and development of LibreOffice for Ubuntu and was welcomed as someone having "a deep expertise on the LibreOffice core".[5] [6] Coming fromOracle (and before that Sun),[7] [8] where he was working on OpenOffice.org for a few years in the Writer/Framework area,[9] he was later the first to tackle the 20-year old OpenOffice build system, with a portable GNU make-based approach, focusing on build speed.[10] [11]

Michaelsen joined LibreOffice in 2011 and became an appointed member of the Engineering Steering Committee from the beginning,[12] was in the initial set of certified LibreOffice developers[13] and championed multiple initiatives of the LibreOffice project,[14] [15] including the migration to a new improved build system.[16] He is a member of the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation,[17] and speaks frequently at open source events.[18] [19] He also created multiple LibreOffice extensions to showcase the power and simplicity of these.[20] [21]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: TDF Chairwoman and Deputy Chairman announced . 2 March 2018 . 15 October 2018.
  2. Web site: Bericht zur AKA-Fachsitzung bei der DPG-Frühjahrstagung 2004 in München (german) . 1 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151002041224/https://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/gliederung/ag/aga/tagungen/Bericht_AKA_Muenchen_2004.html . 2 October 2015 . dead .
  3. Web site: Veröffentlichungen des IFSH Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik (german) . 1 October 2015 .
  4. Web site: Raketenabwehrforschung International, Bulletin No. 34, Die US-Ausgaben für Raketenabwehr: Einst und jetzt (german) . 1 October 2015.
  5. Web site: The Document Foundation welcomes Canonical contribution . h online (Heise) . 29 September 2015.
  6. Web site: Ubuntu Touch to Get a LibreOffice Doc Viewer Soon . 23 August 2015 . (Softpedia) . 29 September 2015.
  7. Web site: Canonical unterstützt LibreOffice (german) . . 29 September 2015.
  8. Web site: Canonical beteiligt sich an Entwicklung (german) . . 29 September 2015.
  9. Web site: Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice . LWN(LWN.net) . 29 September 2015.
  10. Web site: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make . 1 October 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091206195255/http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/building_openoffice_org_with_gnu . December 6, 2009 .
  11. Web site: gbuild: To boldly go where no build system has gone before ... . 1 October 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101119091700/http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/gbuild_to_boldy_go_where . November 19, 2010 .
  12. Web site: Document Foundation appoints Engineering Steering Committee . . 29 September 2015.
  13. Web site: The Document Foundation Reveals Its LibreOffice Certified Developers . 8 November 2012 . . 29 September 2015.
  14. Web site: LibreOffice team to focus on hard bugs . . 29 September 2015.
  15. Web site: LibreOffice to tackle critical bugs with HardHacks program . 20 August 2012 . . 30 September 2015.
  16. Web site: Michaelsen: One . LWN(LWN.net) . 29 September 2015.
  17. Web site: Results Elections TDF Board of Directors . 24 December 2013 . . 29 September 2015.
  18. Web site: OpenOffice Ain't Dead Yet and TDF Conference . ostatic . Further highlights of the day include a keynote by Bjoern Michaelsen from Canonical [...]. . 29 September 2015.
  19. Web site: Avanza CISL 2014 Expositores . Avanza CISL . 29 September 2015.
  20. Web site: Deutsche Bundes-Gesetzgebung in LibreOffice einbinden (german) . pro-linux . 29 September 2015.
  21. Web site: LibreOffice prints on Tuesdays (only) . April 2013 . 29 September 2015.

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