Lanedo is a professional
open source software development consultancy based in Germany. It operates as a European
company with limited liability based in
Hamburg
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. The company has been involved with a number of mobile and
embedded platforms over the years including
Maemo
Maemo is a software platform originally developed by Nokia, now developed by the community, for smartphones and Internet tablets. The platform comprises both the Maemo operating system and SDK. Maemo played a key role in Nokia's strategy to com ...
and
MeeGo
MeeGo is a discontinued Linux distribution hosted by the Linux Foundation, using source code from the operating systems Moblin (produced by Intel) and Maemo (produced by Nokia). Primarily targeted at mobile devices and information appliances in ...
. Their
software development
Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components. Software development invol ...
has a focus around
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...
in general and targeting platforms ranging from mobile and embedded to
desktop environment
In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphica ...
s.
The name 'Lanedo' is based on a roughly phonetic sounding of the letters L, N, and D. These are mentioned as Linux, Networking, and Development respectively.
History
In 2003, Mikael Hallendal and Richard Hult were working together on a project management application called Planner. They founded Imendio.
In 2011, Lanedo joined
the Document Foundation
The Document Foundation (TDF) is a non-profit organization that promotes open-source document handling software. It was created by members of the OpenOffice.org community to manage and develop LibreOffice, a free and open-source office suite, an ...
TSC (Task Steering Committee) and became much more involved in the future of LibreOffice.
Starting in summer 2012, Lanedo, in cooperation with ITOMIG, supported the town of Munich in the LibreOffice maintenance of the
LiMux
LiMux was a project launched by the city of Munich in 2004 in order to replace the software on its desktop computers, migrating from Microsoft Windows to free software based on Linux. By 2012, the city had migrated 12,600 of its 15,500 deskto ...
project.
Lanedo is also actively participating in implementing the
OOXML
Office Open XML (also informally known as OOXML) is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Ecma International standardized the initial version a ...
support for LibreOffice.
Projects Lanedo is involved in
These projects are contributed to by Lanedians.
References
External links
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* {{Official website, http://www.lanedo.com, Lanedo official website
Lanedo developer's blogsImendio former Planner project
Companies based in Hamburg
Software companies established in 2009
Free software companies
GNOME companies
LibreOffice
Software companies of Germany
German companies established in 2009