Lanedo is a professional

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consultancy based in Germany. It operates as a European company with limited liability based in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

. The company has been involved with a number of mobile and embedded platforms over the years including

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and

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. Their

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has a focus around

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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 graphi ...

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 desktop ...

project. Lanedo is also actively participating in implementing the

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support for LibreOffice.

Projects Lanedo is involved in

These projects are contributed to by Lanedians.

References

External links

* * * {{Official website, http://www.lanedo.com, Lanedo official website
Lanedo developer's blogs

Imendio 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