With partners and users around the world, Collabora Online is a global solution, allowing any and all to take control of their documents and data. In December alone, we attended three international conferences, in two continents – the Open Source Experience (OSXP) in Paris, the Nextcloud Enterprise Day also in Paris, and the LibreOffice Latinoamérica conference in Montevideo, Uruguay.
NextCloud Enterprise Day
Starting with the Nextcloud Enterprise Day, it was a delight as always to join our close partner Nextcloud. As the force behind their incredibly popular Nextcloud Office document editor we shared the latest updates to Collabora Online such as automatic document creation and the newest features in our apps. As Nextcloud’s French Marketing Team shared with us last year, the French market for secure and open-source solutions is rapidly growing, and we are excited to be helping enterprises in taking back control of their software and data.
Open Source Experience
Following on from the Nextcloud Enterprise Day, we remained in Paris for the highly popular OSXP – an event dedicated to open-source IT solutions. OSXP report that, “In 2022, the open-source market in France was €6 billion, representing 11% of the global digital market. This growth is sustainable, and has increased 40-fold in less than 20 years.”
Sharing a popular stand with one of our French partners Arawa, many government and business leaders came to speak with us about digital sovereignty, GDPR compliance, and how Collabora Online is helping or could help them achieve their data-security goals. Of particular interest to conference attendees was the fully-attended round-table seminar, Why Pay for Free Software, hosted by Collabora Productivity CEO, Michael Meeks. Bringing together four other open-source CEOs (Frank Karlitschek – Nextcloud GmbH , Philippe Hemmel – Arawa , Anais Concepcion – Grist , Amandine Le Pape – Element / Matrix), the discussion centred on how open-source businesses operate, bringing fully-featured, fully-supported products to the market.
LibreOffice Latinoamérica
Finally, we enjoyed meeting up with many from the LibreOffice community, at the auditorium “Espacio Colabora” Montevideo, Uruguay. Eliana Dominguez welcomed all attendees, particularly the local open-source community, with talks about open document standards, data security, statistics, export/import, use of software.
We shared a presentation about the overall design of the Collabora Online web server, forks of the LibreofficeKit process, the use of the WOPI host (Nextcloud partner) and WOPI client (coolwsd), how to scale the service with a load balanced server, a how-to guide on compiling the source code, and how to configure a simple development document or download our packages from our site.
We love meeting our end users and the wider developer community. Additionally it is a great joy to be working with so many partners globally, striving together in freeing documents and systems. We believe this openness, both in code and attitude, is one of the many reasons so many now rely on Collabora Online for their collaborative document-editing needs.
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