FOSDEM Conference 2012

All of the Lanedo development crew will be attending FOSDEM later this week. We would love to meet up with everyone interested, e.g. to chat about hiring opportunities (we are still looking for skilled programmers with an interest in LibreOffice and FLOSS in general) or ongoing projects.

If you're interested, drop us a line and we will set something up.

Donating to charity

As we did last year, Lanedo wanted to thank our customers for the business we've received in 2011 and to give something back for that. As such, Lanedo has donated approximately 10% of its revenue to charity.

There were 2 charities chosen:

• Red Cross
• Somersham Support Group & Myeloma Support

The Red Cross was chosen because (like last year) we believe this is quite a worthy cause. The Somersham support group and Myeloma support charities were chosen because this year founder Martyn Russell discovered that his father (Brian) had Multiple Myeloma, a type of cancer. The Somersham ward at Ipswich hospital in the UK have been assisting Brian with his aftercare ever since. For now Brian is in remission and getting better by the day!

LinuxCon Europe

This year LinuxCon Europe is going to be in Prague between October 26th and the 28th and Lanedo is going to be there. As usual, if you're interested in meeting up with us, contact us by email and we can arrange to meet.

This year is especially notable because the Linux Foundation is celebrating 20 years of Linux. Linus himself will be at the event too along with all the sponsors and enthusiasts!

LibreOffice Conference Paris

This year, the DocumentFoundation are putting together the first ever LibreOffice conference in Paris between the 12th and 15th of October. Lanedo's involvement on the Engineering Steering Committee and business around LibreOffice means a number of us will be attending.

There are some great events and opportunities to meet with the developers and businesses focused on LibreOffice. If you're coming and want to meet up with us, contact us by email to arrange a meeting.

Lanedo supports LibreOffice

After the recent announcement of the LibreOffice Engineering Steering Committee, the Document Foundation mentioned Michael Natterer (of Lanedo) as having a seat in this body as well as contributing further to the development of LibreOffice. We gave the following statement of support:

Lanedo is proud to support LibreOffice, and participate in development and inside the Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) said Martyn Russell, Managing Director, our contribution underlines the quality and effectiveness of our software development and support services around LibreOffice..

Lionel Dricot runs for GNOME elections

The GNOME Foundation election has now started. There are a refreshing group of candidates this year and our very own Lionel Dricot is also running.

Attending desktop summit

The entire company will be going to the Desktop Summit this August. Tell us if you're going and per\ haps we can meet to discuss current affairs.

Attending LinuxTag

Like every year, we are going to be in Berlin to attend LinuxTag 2011. If you want to meet up and chat about projects, technologies, Free Software or other things, send Tim an email and we will arrange something.

Sponsoring MeeGo conference

Lanedo is a happy to announce that we're officially sponsoring the MeeGo 2011 conference in San Francisco later this month. We will also be attending, so let us know if you're going and want to meet up.

Lanedo booth at CeBIT

Come and visit us at CeBIT in Hannover, hall 2, booth D44. We will give introductions to our services, talk about current and future developments.

Lanedo & Samsung collaboration

Over the past 2 years, Lanedo has engaged with Samsung working on upstream open source projects like GTK+. The focus has been on improving the frame rate and performance on embedded devices bringing it in-line with other major players in the market.

Performance is not the only goal Samsung and Lanedo have achieved, key technologies such as multitouch (with XI2.x) and a gesture handling framework have been developed and polished in coordination with upstream, improving the GTK+ landscape for all applications.

We've been excited about the work we are doing with Samsung and are happy to be part of it.

Donating to charity

We wanted to thank our customers and to give something back for all the work we had during 2010. So Lanedo decided to give to approximately 20% of its revenue to charity.

There were 6 charities chosen:

• St. Elizabeth's Hospice
• Unicef
• King's College Hospital
• Red Cross
• SOS Children's Village
• Ipswich Hospital Urology Department

There were a number of reasons to choose these charities. For the King's College Hopital, Ipswich Hopital and St. Elizabeth's Hospice, the reasons were very close to our hearts. During 2010, Brian Russell (father to Martyn, co-founder of Lanedo) was diagnosed with prostate cancer. This is something his father also suffers from (as do millions of men towards old age). Each of these hospitals has been instrumental in helping Brian beat the cancer and helping both family members with treatments. Additionally, St. Elizabeth's Hospice has aided the late Alison Clarke who was close to Martyn also.

Our world has seen much grief and disasters last year that caught our attention. To help mitigating and future development, half of our donations went to the wider public through Unicef, SOS Children's Villages and the Red Cross.