10 questions to Michael Meeks, Leading OO.o Developer, Gnonemist, Novellist and Ximianist

We have had the chance to do an e-terview with Michael Meeks who is a leading OO.o developer and currently working with Novell. Read more as we ask him ten questions about Microsoft, The OLPC, Religion and Wikipedia.

Q. Michael Meeks, your name are associated with Gnome, OpenOffice, Ximian and Novell and you are also a seasoned hacker and code debugger. That is in addition to the role of fathering a six-month old baby. How do you exactly manage your time?

I'm not sure I manage my time that well; sifting the important from the urgent and doing the right thing takes half of each day, then sometimes I have a chance to hack, which is what I love.

Thankfully soon I hope to hand some of the management responsibility for Novell's large, and growing OpenOffice team over to a friend, and do more hacking again.

My Gnome contribution these days is mostly doing small maintenance tweaks to ORBit2 or bonobo code. In general for productivity though I've found reading mail just once per day, and planning your time in advance, are the keys here.