TL;DR: Together with Adfinis, we are celebrating a decade of partnership rooted in providing high-quality, privacy-respecting, open-source solutions. Our collaboration has led to significant achievements, such as developing an iOS document-editing app, as well as integrating LanguageTool and DeepL into Collabora Online. The partnership has also driven key projects like openDesk and now supports thousands of users globally. We are grateful to Adfinis for their unwavering support and contribution over the years, and look forward to continuing to work together.
The partnership between Collabora Productivity and Adfinis began 10 years ago with a shared commitment to open-source principles and a vision to serve end users with open-source solutions. Reflecting on the past decade we are greatly encouraged by all that we have achieved, with the support and encouragement from Nicolas and the Adfinis team developing an enterprise-ready, browser-based, open-source document editor.
The decision to join forces in 2014 was an easy one, Adfinis staff were involved from a very early stage of the LibreOffice project, contributing to strategic work such as the translation of pre-existing German code comments to English, expanding the pool of talent able to work on the code and accelerating further development. Since we joined forces, we have also enjoyed hosting Adfinis at annual Partner conference multiple times in Albania, Berlin, and Rome, speaking together at the Adfinis organised LibreOffice conference in Bern, and working together bringing open-source goodness to companies around the world.
In particular, by directly helping to fund and contributing to critical projects, Adfinis has helped Collabora bring to the market a powerful, fully-featured, privacy-respecting alternative to proprietary office suites. Adfinis helped to support Collabora’s development of our powerful document-editing app for the iOS platform, and we’ve tackled other ambitious projects together, such as integrating the powerful tools LanguageTool and DeepL into Collabora Online(read more about these projects from Adfinis here ), and together now support thousands of users and organisations in the freeing of their documents.
Thanks to Adfinis’ ongoing generous donation of testing hardware, we now run crash testing on 850,000 test documents – importing and exporting the documents in a constant loop on our latest code. This lets us detect many format regressions, before they reach even our development edition release, a key part of helping to make each new Collabora Online release stable and secure. These achievements, and many ongoing customer success stories underscore our commitment to bridging open technology across proprietary domains, promoting digital self-determination, and fostering ambition and a can-do attitude in IT solutions.
Looking ahead, the collaboration between Collabora Productivity and Adfinis (amongst other organisations) remains pivotal in driving exciting new initiatives like the openDesk project forward, and with now a decade of milestones behind us, continues to grow stronger as we eagerly anticipate the next chapter of innovation and partnership.
To Adfinis, we say thank you for being part of our story these past ten years. Thank you for the encouragement, enthustiastic support at the beginning of LibreOffice, for serving alongside Collabora members on the TDF board, and for contributing to the project both financially and technically. Your support and friendship means a huge amount to us, and it is a great privilege working together with you.
