 All righty, so it's me again Hey, everyone Yeah, I somehow bought me the spot here on the stage this time With a bit of sponsoring so If you would indulge me for some a few minutes Well, I say a few things about My company which is allotropia and and our team Many of them are actually here today, so first of all Who are we? we are company is based in Hamburg, which is actually the the birthplace more or less of not of star office, but of open office and Yeah, we I was working With the pretty much with the exit with the previous team many of the people that are now with allotropia I was working for another company and I've also been keynoting for them. So you you might remember CIB And we spun out allotropia with the with the open source team like everyone almost everyone from From that existing team came with me in the new company at the beginning of last year So I I still Have the from from the old from CIB Oli Brantner is a shareholder of the new company and we continue to serve existing customers so it was kind of a Spin out like doing exactly the same like you did before just With with a separate company and it turned out to be very nice and and and good idea and We had quite a successful first year the last year Yeah, the focus is pure play open source So we are a consultancy business with a bit of firm product Offerings, but it's all purely open source. So there's nothing that you That we're doing that is not an either an open source Product or opens or services or consultancies around software that is not open source Yeah, and we have a number of customers we're very grateful for that Quite diverse with a wide spectrum from public sector to private sector large and small Which is which is nice and I'm I'm quite Happy and quite quite proud about it. So Focus really on a conference should be on people. So so my focus for this for the for the first part of this keynote is about People which is our team at allotropia of which I'm really extremely proud And what we're doing. I mean you can read that from the slides. I'm not gonna do that. I'm just kind of Talking over the the idea behind that so for something like LibreOffice or something as complex as LibreOffice And other related technology You need a number of people it's just not possible to do that all with one or two or three persons is just Too much too large and if you want to do something With with good quality and good results and reasonable time you need experts And I'm I'm quite honored to be in a position to have quite a few of them working for allotropia And so that we were able to cover the entire code base and as such We are a company where you can come and say I want A bug fixed or a feature implemented and we can do that. It's not like Or we can only kind of do I don't know impress bug fixes Impresses in need of some bug fixes, but So so do come to us if you want an impress bug fix But you can also come to us if you want something else fixed in LibreOffice or in related Software Yeah, and With all those things that we're doing. We're also very very happy and very proud That we managed to be the leading Company behind the the WebAssembly port and there will be a talk about that some updates Some new things happening there And that's also I think a really wonderful match With that what it alone just said and the in the opening session with that LibreOffice technology moniker on this conference because it's never been intended to do that like running in the browser or running on some on some Wasm runtime on a server or being ported to so many different Devices operating systems platforms as it is today. I mean that that thing started in the 90s There was just no iOS and no Android and and also no OS X and it was barely some Linux back in the day so I really like that idea this technology thing and and that's This this company logo that that is kind of the stylish Bucky ball that was on on the first slide it's a bit like this kind of This technology this kind of gem that is the scope base you can morph that really quite massively and You won't recognize it when it's like running at some PDF conversion on some back end or if it's running on your mobile device It really doesn't look like desktop LibreOffice, but it's still the same code base Yeah, and as I say kind of super glad super happy to to be in a position To work on that to innovate to be part of that LibreOffice technology movement Yeah, beyond that. We're also kind of doing some stuff like Modernization and a bit of OSB Alliance, which is kind of open-source lobbying for Germany and of course we're active in the document foundation in very many ways And in the bodies of the foundation, but also and that's actually most of the Most of the time most of the work actually developing for LibreOffice So that's Mark Schultz of the team and Yeah, what you see here is something like 80 years of Some total of 80 years of experience in the in that LibreOffice technology and Yeah, some of them are here and Let's quickly go through that. So first one today is Gabor with a state of interoperability the good the bad and maybe also the ugly I haven't seen the talk yet, but I'm sure that Gabor will deliver especially on the On the on the gory details of what's not really quite working yet And so the idea behind that is like get some honest assessment on where we are with the view on like Outlook like what do we need to do like what's the where's the best bang for the buck if we fix it here What's what's gonna kind of get unlocked? so Yeah, you might not want to miss that today at 1530 in Loyola Then there was some a colleague from City of Munich beyond Ranft and yours truly at four and the other room That's essentially talking about volmox, which is some quite massive Java extension That is used for not only mail merge, but it's also a template organization. It's it's essentially it's been like PHP It's like you can you can write code How your templates should behave and what they can do and it's really quite powerful. So That's like lessons learned and what's the plan and What are we gonna do there and why is it relevant? Why do we think it is so relevant for for the project? Then after that back to back some Some updates on this I started talking about that at FOS them That is a prototype fund project. So like For For for LibreOffice probably most interesting like just getting someone to do a bit of experimenting and a bit of work on on the CI there was always been people like trying a bit with coverage and It never really fit into the Jenkins thing and yeah There's some updates on that and some some plans and and some progress report and also quite some room I guess for discussions and feedback Then half an hour later a Samuel that is a lightning talk that's remote. So Samuel couldn't make it to Milano But he will be available for questions on metrics and it's a recorded talk, but he's gonna be there Yeah Yeah, and Vassili also couldn't make it Isalou mentioned it as quite some challenge sometimes with visa and stuff So it's also remote and it's about and it's tomorrow 10 30 and in this witchy room I think it's right after Milo stock. So that's that's my view that if you are interested in that area this That's kind of the newer word form control Sorry form control engine so and there was some some very interesting very nice to see like some some virtuous circle of Vassili started and Miklos took it quite quite a bit further and then Vassili was kind of adding a bit to that So maybe you guys should have had a joint talk, but it's gonna almost be like that So it's gonna be back-to-back so people can just stay in the room and Could be interesting After that Balash He's gonna be here and he's gonna talk about calc improvements also don't miss that and at Before lunch just half an hour before lunch some updates from Balash and me on the the wasm project Balash had pulled quite some some nice tricks off there and we're gonna talk about that and also what's the the plans down and Then the second last is Armin at three on Friday Graphic subsystems like the history the details. What's the plan division there the architecture? So that's gonna be if you if you're interested in this graphics area Go there and get some update and then ask questions and Yeah, and then Michael is gonna give some update on the State of ODF and what's happening there as standardization and also on the implementation front Good So that was that I think I got some few minutes left So sometime for for personal statements Community so so as I said it this is all about people and We are a community and What is a community obviously it's a body of persons with common interests and That's good to know because we all share quite a lot of common interests and Sometimes when we disagree, I think it's It's good to disagree. It's important to disagree. It's not that we almost must agree on everything But if the disagreement is getting too much or it's it's at least that's for me when it's getting on me It's good to step back for a moment and then reflect on the fact that The shared common interest is this this project and the software and this foundation and we're all here because of that because we love free software and we love LibreOffice and We we love TDF and we built it like many in this room like help building it So so we share the amount of shared interest is massive and and when the when the going gets tough That at least helps me then to say okay Maybe let's talk about What what what we agree on and what we share and and and the common vision and the common mission rather than Whether this tiny detail here should be green or blue or black Yeah, on the question of mission That is just again the personal statement What what is my mission statement? That's pretty that's pretty simple I want to make LibreOffice rock and have a lot of fun in the process So so and I think that is very likely true for at least All the volunteers That are contributing to LibreOffice the reason why we're doing this is because it's great. It's fun. We love it We like it it gives us its rewarding and that's why we're doing it Otherwise, why would we spend the weekends and the nights and our vacation? To and travel 48 hours to come to some remote place and meet people because we like it It's fun. It's great. It's rewarding and Then of course The the mission statement that is not the mission statement of the document foundation of the LibreOffice project and The mission statement that we have is maybe a little bit dated and we have been talking about perhaps updating that for For like a year or two already And perhaps it's time to do that and why not start discussing that while we're here in person over beer or a pizza or Or a tea And on the vision I think so that that's the mission like like what Did the doing bit so so I want to make it rock and I I enjoy doing that and and the vision bit Yeah, so so I broadly I don't think that really needs an update I mean, it's this from this next decade manifesto. It's like bridge to digital divide Provide everyone with office productivity that is open source. So so they can so that the people are empowered so they can improve it They can work with it. They can innovate on top of that Like us doing that here Well with with this LibreOffice technology stuff I think the division Maybe it needs a bit of brushing up, but but I don't think it really needs at least from from my perspective an update So my message then for the project now that I have to stage It's just yeah, let's just continue having fun and and let's Continue to be in through the aesthetic about what we're doing and it's easier if you're having fun Then it's easy to be enthusiastic about it And if you are enthusiastic about what you're doing then you will attract other people who say oh, there's shiny happy people there What are they doing? I might want to join that Yeah, and of course continue to have great ideas And innovate and that's what happened like from from day one with liberal office You might remember that when you were around What a liberating Experience that was and everyone was just Finally, we're free to do what we always wanted to do like we're not We're not held back by by policies and and rules and Whatever so so people started to innovate on the code and people started to innovate on the infrastructure and people started to innovate on the tools and people started to innovate on the the project Modernization which was rather rigid before so let's let's not stop being enthusiastic and let's not stop to innovate and to great new things Because that's kind of this virtual circle and if if you if you do that you will be attractive. We will be attractive for other people So with that The only thing that is left is to say thank you very much For all your work Yeah, thank you very much for all your work your time your passion Even through the asm that you're putting into the project since some of them since I don't know 12 years or longer before that so Yeah, I bow before you. Thank you very much and enjoy the conference