 Welcome, everyone. Hey there. Second, is it the second? I think it's the third keynote of the day. Yeah, thanks. First of all, my name is Thorsten Behrens. I'm here for Allotropia. We're honored to be able to sponsor the conference. First of all, I'd like to say thank you, in particular, to the local team here, setting this up in just a wonderful way. Like so? In such a wonderful way. And yeah, in a brilliant building with wonderful technology, and everything was great the last four days, actually, for me. But also, thank you to everybody else who helped making this a success. All the people from TDF staff, all the volunteers that helped both preparing things in the background. And everybody here coming here to the conference, of course, and presenting your talk and your work that you did over the last year. So yeah, I feel honored to be here. And welcome, everyone. So a few words about Allotropia. Company was founded less than three years ago. We're operational since January 2021. We spun out from another company that I've been working for five years. And we took essentially the entire LibreOffice open source team and spun out our own company. We're a remote first company and pure play open source, with quite a variety of customers all over the map, private, and public sector. Right, our team, most proud of it, most wonderful team. We're covering, essentially, if you look down this very long list there, we're covering the entire scope, not only of the code base, but also associated and parallel projects there. Pretty much the entire open source, Office Productivity Space, text processing, PDF, what have you not. So we're a one-stop company and we want to be, for all things, LibreOffice. And with our flagship initiative, the WebAssembly port, something with the guiding mission of the company to make open source shine in every shape and form, so running natively in the browser that was something that was not there before on the client side. Right, so we're also active in other organizations, for example, the open source business alliance. We do networking there, policy, a little bit of lobbying work in Germany, mostly. PDF, by the way, is a member there, too, so there's quite some alignment there. And we're trying to make sure that everybody knows, relative to other lobbying organizations, relative to other, like BSA or other places, that politics is informed about the advantages of open source and the very wide diversity there in the business landscape. Oasis, of course, very important for LibreOffice because of the open document format. And one of my team members, Michael, is there serving on the ODFTC. I've been serving there for many years, but now he's there. He's also co-editor of the ODF standard, and we're happy to fund that work. And finally, of course, last but not least, TDF, where we are in the advisory board, and I'm on the board, and my colleague Gabor is on the board, and my colleague Balasius on the membership committee. So we're trying to support LibreOffice and the project and TDF in very many ways, with a lot of time and a lot of energy, which I hope is showing. Yes, so what you see here, actually, that's the team. 10 people by now, so we've been growing since last year. What you see is essentially probably something like 75 plus years of experience in tech and in the market, and in particular, regarding the LibreOffice technology, the code base. In total, we will have eight talks over, or eight talks, seven talks, and one panel over the conference, just a quick walk through there so that you know where to go. There's some SDK adventure story from the woods from me, so bit of a showcase, what you can actually do with LibreOffice when you combine that with other technology in interesting ways. And it really helped to have a very deep knowledge of the core, but also of the extension development and what you can do on the SDK and API side. And so I think that's a nice showcase, what is possible, even if you don't want core development, and how we can do that. Second talk is from Saper. Yeah, that's another update on the WebAssembly story. If you want to run LibreOffice in a browser and you're curious what's happening there, come to that talk, there's some good stuff going on. If you want to run it in a browser, and it's a program where you also maybe not only want to run it there, you want to talk to it, automate it, build your own software around LibreOffice, and then interact on the JavaScript side with LibreOffice. And surprisingly or not, that is possible with UNO. So essentially it's not quite done yet. It's not absolutely production ready, but with that quite a large percentage so that you can use almost all of UNO client side in the browser. Third one is my colleague Michael Stahl about the work in around document accessibility. That's one larger area of work that we have been conducting over the past year mostly. So that's the accessibility of the software itself, where great strides were made, like great progress was made since we TDF hired Michael Vickhorn there, but also before with lots of tender work. The other side of accessibility is of course what comes out of LibreOffice, the documents itself, the PDFs, that also needs to be accessible in this day and age. And there was some gaps there and a bit of feature gap and then some bugs and stuff lacking. So that's one part of the PDF export story that we greatly improved thanks to customer funding. And Michael will talk about that. I mean, yes, so thanks to funding from Collabora, we were able to finally get us nice gradients. Very important for interoperability because the other programs there, they had more than just one or two colors in the gradient and it kind of looks a bit insufficient then when you import that and you get a nice rainbow colored gradient reduced to just two colors. So that works now. It's shipping with LibreOffice 7.6 and quite some detailed work there to do. Regina is busy standardizing stuff and there's some other corners where probably some work is necessary, but by and large UI, for example, interacting with it. But by and large, it's working. If you're curious, come to see Armin there on Friday. Yeah, this one, that's the extension formally known as the Walmux and it's now hosted at the Document Foundation and it's called LibreOffice Template System and I will tell some stories about what we did, what it is, what it can do with it and what's the plans, of course. Next one is Balash. Again, coming back to the document accessibility and a bit unrelated, but we put it in one talk. So it's essentially a story of what Balash did in the last half a year or almost a year and that's those two areas, improving Calc and the accessibility story, the document accessibility story in writer in particular. And there's some more work there planned in particular for Calc, so then suddenly those two things actually come together. Samuel unfortunately can't be here, so that's going to be a remote talk that is recorded but we will be in the room, so if you have questions, we can channel them. That is the accessibility sidebar, which is super great. So that matches something and surpasses what a competing office suite has there and it's building on top of previous work from Collabora and others with a accessibility checker. You might have seen that when you exported the document to PDF with a PDF UA enabled and you got some lists of warnings there. So this is now a very nice way to actually get this warnings in an asynchronous way and go through that and fix them. Go watch that talk, it's a really cool feature. And finishing off with, I think there's some rescheduling, I haven't checked the schedule, but I think we're moving that to Friday end of the day. That's a panel with HICO and other mentors from the GSOC this year and at least one student and we're going to present the work there and what happened in the GSOC this term. Okay, then moving on, that's double circumference, then a little bit of a sneak peek into the next year. So a bit of a roadmap, what we're planning to do from the Allotropia site, very important also to me is the Liberal Office Web Assembly work. So we plan to invest more there, get it ready as a product so that you can actually use that as a web widget in your web application and productize the UNO API binding so that you can use Liberal Office in a browser from JavaScript as if it would be Python, as if you would be hacking a Python extension or a Java extension on a desktop. Calc and Impress, we'll get some more document accessibility improvements, there's also quite some bug fixing probably still necessary. Now that 7.6 is out and we're getting feedback from the users. And then there's a very interesting thing that we will be very busy with in the next months so we obtained funding to the broad frame there is to improve the security story around Liberal Office and there's many pieces there that we can do and one important piece is obviously getting people to update the software on a timely basis and there was this prototype for the more based updates that Moghi did many years ago and there were plans to roll that out and productize that and I can today say that we secured funding for that so we would be most happy to implement that for the project, contribute it all back, also help with the infrastructure there to set it up. I personally think that's extremely important since we know how reluctant people are because it's kind of cumbersome and it's not really like a streamlined as this could be for the updates. Second there, that's a bit of a very technical, very geeky thing but the ODF format is substantially worse when you want to encrypt it so the way the ODF encryption works today makes it largely unusable for large documents or for documents with many, many images so we also secured funding to improve that to be at least on par with Microsoft then and also improve many other things like getting the encryption and the key derivation et cetera, getting that up to 2024 standards and another bit that's quite some smaller issues there but securing liberal office defaults there's always a bit of a tension so if you have default, should it be secured and it's mostly annoying to users or should it be relaxed and users are not annoyed by questions or by lockdown features but then like on a worldwide scale of course it makes the entire software slightly less secure if the defaults are. So that's gonna be an open discussion. Again, funding is there but it's in discussion that we need to have with all of you in particular with the user experience side of the project what works, what is acceptable and what is not and but at least like from the core side from the code side from the functionality provide options there to lock liberal office down a little bit more than it is today so that in any case, regardless of the defaults then an enterprise can really lock it down. Okay, then that was the advertising and the company and allotropia story. If you would allow me some personal thoughts. I'm standing here in front of you not just as a managing director and majority owner of a company but also as a director of the board and so I do have some personal thoughts on some things and given that I have the stage now I thought I could share a few with you. Yeah, TDF turns 11 next February, the foundation and liberal office turns 13 next week so it's coming a teenager, it's quite a long time. I've been on the board for almost 12 years so in February next year it's gonna be 12 years. So that's a long time and what have we done? I mean looking back clearly we started with that rocket ship and by all measures, by all means we were extremely successful. If you look at the foundation today we got I think 1.5 million annual donations on average we got 15 staff, we had an extremely well known brand. We are the floss office suite, the open source office suite. I mean there's a few smaller contenders but it's a synonym for the office suite there. We're a role model for others who come, want to join the foundation, want to join the project, want to benefit from the name recognition from the brand or want to learn from us. So people from the foundation, people from the project are now helping other projects, mentoring other projects, counseling other projects. So by all means it's a great success story and we have established us in the wider open source world and not only that, we have become part of critical infrastructure. The fact that the German federal organization IT security institute or agency is now funding improvements in liberal office I think is testament to that, that we have become that important. And we are recognized as part of the digital sovereignty substrate. So people realize that an office suite is part, is an important part, for example, of a government desktop. So there are initiatives that want to use liberal office in that context and they realize it also needs funding. So both of that, like not only that, they recognize it's great to have open source there, but also that open source needs funding, that's our success, not just us, but clearly we had a role there to push that narrative. And yes, we're used in governments and we're all partially funded by governments all over the world, in particular in Europe. So I think we are there, we have established ourselves, but now what? And that is, I think, part of the issues that we've seen in the recent years that we're kind of plateauing. So we've been incredibly successful and we achieved things beyond our wildest dreams really, at least I would not have expected that the project would be that successful with so many people and have this sort of maturity and this organizational level. Still, the question is, what's next? And that has been asked since a few years with the extricate manifesto from 2010 to 2010, and then 11 and then 12. So my personal take on that is we need to look beyond LibreOffice. When TDF was funded, well, it's not that we should ignore LibreOffice, it's not that we can do five million great things with LibreOffice, but TDF was funded with the idea in mind that it's an umbrella organization, we should have more than just this single-trick pony that is LibreOffice or the office suite or the desktop. So fanning out, doing more, trying things, I think that's the, my opinion, that's the order of the day. And there's lots of green shoots everywhere. If you look what's happening with LibreOffice, the core, like LibreOffice technology, where it is used, how it is used, who is using that, there's lots of great things happening. If you look carefully, all of that are small little plants, small green shoots all over the place. You need to listen a bit and you need to pay attention, but you do notice that. But there's more than that. We got more than 150 Git repositories at TDF hosted. There's some duplication, there's some forts of other projects, there's some infrastructure stuff there, but there's real projects out there that are not LibreOffice. There's Document Liberation Project, there's the LibreOffice Template System, there's the Order of Toolkit, there's CPP Unit, there's Python Goodness, there's more than a thousand extensions in the extension repository. So I think there's great potential and the more we increase the diversity and the more we are attractive for other projects, the higher the chances that one of those, a two, three, or 10, will grow into an next big thing, here or there or there. So I don't know if you've seen, I mean, and with the idea that desktop, of course, is aging, it's a bit of a legacy, but then you see, I don't know if you've seen this latex, there's a number of designated latex, accessible, for example, types, but others. So rethinking, reimagining document production. I think that's something where TDF is extremely well placed to host those projects if they're open source. So in terms of goals, like what we can do beyond encouraging others to join us, what actively can we do? I don't know how many of you know those six strategic goals that are on the slide now? Who see them? Okay, that's like a handful of people who've seen them before. So, well, that's actually the foundation goals since last year. So maybe we should, that first and foremost includes me, promote them a little bit more. So who worked, who from the people in the room worked on one of them at least in the last year? It's almost the same number. So at least those that knew about them did work on them, which is great. Thank you. Right, so yeah, so maybe it would help then if it would be more inclusive now, if we would listen, maybe those goals are not the right ones. Maybe you have other goals. Maybe the only goal is having fun or your goal is something else entirely. And TDF should be there and the foundation and the project should be there to help you with your ideas if you're a volunteer. So encouraging people to innovate, encouraging people to realize their dreams and their ideas. I think that's where the TDF can shine. And of course, everyone from us turning this around, the question is what I can do to further the mission and you need to tell us if you need help with that. And I think TDF would be most happy to help them and jump in. So what am I here for if you ask me that? So my primary motivation is that I just love the project and I love working with all of you. I love furthering the project and I love helping it to stay relevant for at least another 13 years. I would just love to see the contributor base growing as it did in the years past. There's some, I think some need to professionalize the organization more of a growing. So that's in the early days, everything was, as others said, a bunch of friends doing things on a shoe string. And I think we've grown enough and matured enough, but I think there's quite some work to professionalize. But the most important thing, I'd like to continue having fun. So should that be the case that the fun is not there anymore, let's all work together to get the fun back. And with that, I'd like to wish you all the most wonderful, enjoyable liberal office conference. Thanks again, everyone for coming here, spending your time with us. Thanks a million to the organizers. Thanks for TDF, for organizing, for paying a lot of bills, for helping in the background as always. Thanks so much.