 Thank you for all being here. Just fantastic. I'm going to try and speak slowly, but I'm sorry. I get excited, you know, and then Anyhow, well, let's try. So I just want to tell you a little bit about Calabra. Many of you know of us The parent company has 140 staff It's quite a mature company arguably the leading open source consultants in the world And it's the parent company of Calabra productivity Which I guess is is the Libra office related bit We came out of Cesar in 2013 now eight years just slightly over eight years old around 32 staff And we're fully focused on office office pieces and of course Libra office is a huge part of that and the Libra office technology Underpins everything we do there. And so, you know, I think a very positive way of looking at it. And thanks Thanks, Talia for building that whole model and framing and Approach to market. I think that's really really cool. So Calabra's mission. Well, yes, make open source rock. So hopefully we have a great alignment there with TDF's mission And just to reiterate that this is really our raison d'etre. It's it's why we're here It's the goal of our shareholders. So what does that mean? Well, if we're not doing that, then we we're failing to some degree So how do we do it? We take the support that our people give us our partners our customers and so on and reinvest that Into your floss software everywhere. All our code is open Obviously, we have to make money to pay our salaries and to reinvest and so on but broadly we're you know, it's it's the goal is Making open source rock and that's that's what we're here for. We're not for sale We're not a you know a startup that appears and disappears having done something of questionable value and Changes radically and see we're really quite static in terms of you know, structure ownership And so on we're here for the long run To you to make open source succeed and because it doesn't succeed by itself. It needs lots of effort put in See the parent company does all sorts of things and I just you know a few things there So I mean the fundamental thing that ties these together is making open source succeed in lots of new domains Enabling primarily Linux to run on all kinds of semiconductor hardware and doing Automative things in your car in your you know the medical device next to your your bed in your hospital The signs you're looking at the entertainment that streamed through you know multimedia displays are the plumbing that ties all this together And but perhaps more importantly making it easy for companies to do the right thing which is to base off an open source a solution So providing that that consultancy service and you know the ability to find people to solve your problem Quickly and so there's lots of examples there of good things we've done Calabar as productivity subsidiary those is really focused on well selling selling things around the LibreOffice technology So we've developed Calabar online, which is really the tip of our sales marketing spear And we developed that a supported maintain it sustain it and it's built on of course LibreOffice technology much of the Goodness underneath there is completely shared and I'll talk about that later And we make this wonderful scalable interoperable collaborative editing thing in your browser And then we provide an SLA around that To keep it available inside your organization level 3 support for fixing bugs to get problems We talk to our customers about where they want to go You know what do they want the product to do where should we be going? How can we improve and then we love to go to market via partners? So our preferred a route to market is to you know find great open source loving companies In the in the world out there and to partner with them and then share the revenue around You know around the code base there With them so they they get a better product to give to their customers and we stand behind them and you know It all works well But the most crucial piece here is I can show you that revenue goes back to actual development Because you know, it's very easy to sell services around open source whilst not contributing back and that's something that we things just destructive for the whole Ecosystem and we also self-collaborate office, which is a branded version of Libra office Obviously the foundation for what we do in online and we have a year-based versioning Scheme and release schedule and we sell them on PC Mac and Linux for that but we also do bespoke consultancy and we make wacky products to help people with the obscure needs around the Libra office technology and You know, we'll even take the risk of doing prepaid a fixed price level 3 bug fixes So we go to market then through partners OEMs and our hosters all sorts of people and You know, as I mentioned earlier anyone can install a Docker image and claim to be an expert, you know Whilst asking questions of other people and consuming what looks like community resource in order to you know Try and fulfill their needs and we've seen a lot of them around open office We see a lot of it around Libra office Well, maybe less because I think there's a more positive message about contributing that But all of our partners are essentially committed to then shipping Calabra online and encouraging users to pay for it and pay a reasonable amount massively cheaper than Microsoft giving you amazing digital freedom But then putting money back into actual free software development underneath So, you know, we love to work with smart people and so a lot of our partners extremely sharp and produce a Key part of the deliverable here because we just do office and we try and focus on that So without, you know, your next cloud your own cloud your Pideo your, you know, filer your jet key All of these things your egroup where we don't really have any documents to edit And we don't have any credentials of users to authenticate with it So so we rely on our partners to provide that route to market and the wrapper around Collabra online and we have losing them 230 partners If you're interested in becoming one contact me check out our partner list if you want to find one But in your own language near you, we should have something And we have a nice web page you can look at which sort of breaks down the commercials The subscriptions and what what we sell there and how it's priced So do you do poke at that if you care about it, but I suspect more people be interested in, you know What we've done and how we've been working on improving LibreOffice technology I very quickly screenshotted it all is slide earlier. And so I now have a you know, the right logo in the background So I just like to show some of the things that we've done and we've been really pleased to contribute to Core alongside the community So one of the things I'm most pleased about is that you know for decades, we've had this rather narrow VCL API It's possible to expand the power of our rendering and to make it cleaner and you know Quicker and so on but there are a lot of things that can get in the way there And so one of the things that I've been Encouraging people to do is to invest in skier And trying to get to fewer different back-ends rendering stuff So with AMD, we've done some great work there to get accelerated Vulcan rendering on Windows via skier Sadly, we still need the GDI rendering for print, which is a tragedy. Hopefully Hopefully we can cover the solution there. I mean recent times Lubos has been working on Skiers support for Mac accelerated with the metal back-end there so we can then use a single API for Mac and Windows Of course, it runs on Linux as well But of course the Cairo API is you know, it's actually really very capable modern rendering API as well It's not the default there yet And we've ripped out the open GL stuff that used to be there and I think we're shipping that in LibreOffice 7.7.2 So I really thanks to well AMD of course, but also to all of the LibreOffice vanilla Mac buyers who actually bought LibreOffice on Mac Got you know, they bought the convenience of having that in their hand easily and updating auto automatically updating Can we put that back into improving the software? Some other things they funded so, you know the buyers in the Apple App Store there are really the only serious Mac customers we have As a project. So, you know, the only real people paying for Apple Mac support So anyway, the funding there really helped us, you know, we could buy the dev kit ahead of time We could sign the hideous NDAs with with Apple We could do this work built on Stefan's work there to get the ARM64 ABI We could patch all the dependencies and thanks to Tor for doing all of that and we were there You know ready to ship it But of course there was some horrible bug in the App Store upload It meant we were rather late actually getting it out just too big to have an X8664 and the ARM64 binary At the same time anyway, it is there now and it works thanks to our Mac customers So here's a debate. Maybe some of you You know are aware that we have a board and you know, our board elections are coming up, I guess in the The end of this year perhaps soon and so, you know, I'd like to encourage people who like to wrestle with naughty problems To you know to think about this So here's a question that our board is currently continuing to evaluate reevaluate Everyone agrees that we should provide LibreOffice for free as downloaded at TDF for all platforms broadly But should we Actually charge for LibreOffice and App Stores. Well, you know These are DRM App Stores that stop people from sharing the free software killing one of your software freedoms But then against that we can charge a syntax for this using this horrible root Which we can then spend of course some of it goes to say Apple or Microsoft But that gives us cash and it gives TDF cash to improve feature function Which then hopefully drives adoption and meets our you know development goals as well or The alternative view is should we ship it for zero dollars in the app stores because our adoption goal is more important And we should be giving things for free to users and that that's more important development And it would then be better to have less income and less development In order to get more users and more convenience for those users so that you know And bearing in mind, of course some part of that will come back via donations So you know people will donate we know that's a small part compared to the revenue that actually comes in when they pay for Convenience because we've measured it. Um, but you know, maybe that's the sacrifice worth having um and against that of course then Convenient access in a DRM app store will then stop people coming to the website for updates So that may cut into TDF visits and its donations But pay for the staff that do a lot of the work here and very valuable work in the in the community So but but is that worthwhile to get more adoption or you know And will those non-paying users then become future community members who will improve future function and drive our development goals? Hard to say, right? I mean, I have my view But we need people who are willing to wrestle with these problems and read both sides of these and understand them and you know engage So let me encourage you if you've got a passion for dealing with naughty difficult problems, you know to stand or you know consider standing for the board And wrestling with us with those So anyway, let me talk about some of the other things we've done sort of outside the sphere of the The app store revenue there and I'm feeding that back into improving Mac So it's all I talked when something about the LibreOffice technology It's used in all sorts of places many of them. You can't see but one popular use is for indexing or converting documents So we're really thrilled with nl net to have been able to implement this indexing exporter that the generates not just a text output of a document but also Where that text is in the document so that we can then render thumbnails of it and provide results that look pretty So so you can see You know where which shape or which which paragraph in its context the thing was in Rather than sort of converting to html and losing so much richness as part of that So that's that's kind of cool new feature. Maybe we will drive adoption one of the things I'm most pleased about is well, I have a passion for improving performance and You know many regression and breakage is down to this that we were subsequently fixed but Either way having an economic incentive to optimize the software is just really cool So that we can you know Actually people want to make it faster and better and more beautiful and so loads of stuff came from online here in terms of caching sidebar panels faster switching and faster dash line rendering better image scaling I mean you can read the things here, but lots lots of stuff And all of that's in the core of course all of that improves LibreOffice for everyone Um, and of course lots of other core optimizations, you know faster text rendering We want this thing to be snappy and quick and beautiful, you know the best Office suite for interactivity that's out there. Now one of the funny things here was Typing fast so so we get users who who just like to match the keyboard to test collaborative editing And it turns out you can type 10 times as fast as a normal Typer if you just do this on the keyboard, which is cool. Um But it turned out that actually the dominant cost of rendering that far more than anything else We saw was rendering this absolutely beautiful v spline Subdivided into you know two pixels high. It's with all of these control points And 90% or so of our cpu time rendering a you know in a document with this in it was just rendering those red squiggles Which is kind of silly and actually when you see a large calc spreadsheet with miss bell strings in it You know, that's that's another cost that's happening there and it's now being fixed Contributed back So so great for everyone. Um xray So it's really important that people understand how their documents work particularly when they're scripting or writing writing things around The office suite and so we we really Thrilled to have the tdf donors. Thanks to the board and the executive for getting getting tendering fix funds building an xray like document inspection tool into libre office 7 2 So that you can learn the you know api you can see how your document's structured You can easily write and debug and see what's going on Which is just just fantastic and you know, you can see all of the properties then of Of your your office. We did not reveal codes, which is the word perfect Desire, but it's you know, it's pretty nice to be able to see absolutely everything that's that's going on there It's exposed through the api And uh, yeah just thanks thanks to being able to do that. That's great What else a user experience? So there's a whole lot of little tweaks particularly improving things in the sidebar You'll see you know this font work sidebar panel there And much of that is driven by the desire to have these mobile Mobile panels there because we wrap the sidebar in clever ways To provide our mobile user want user experience one-handed user experience. That's pretty cool. What else? So, uh, yeah style preview rendering just to make it easier to select You know the style that you want uh, really really nice to be able to see see what it's going to look like I'm great to be able to contribute that and of course shared with online One of the nice things about working at collaborative, I hope is a hack week project. So from time to time You know when the customer craziness is not as bad as it is normally or You know, we've just managed to get a big release out and you know people have been working really hard We just love to give people a hack week and say, you know, go and work on anything you like in labor office You know, just just do something cool And so this is just an example of uh, thomas or quickies hack hack week project As to provide a heads-up display to allow you to rapidly search for commands But to do the thing you want to do which you can't find the The toolbar button or the you know the icon or whatever it is that does that that's kind of cool Just try try that with shift escape in your labor office Other things we love to well, you know, we do a whole lot of work on interoperability We have wonderful interoperability. LibreOffice's interoperability is is better than any other implementation out there outside of microsoft Let's let's say, you know, and it has an incredible history of of you know unwinding and disentangling horrors In the file formats we have to work with that But you know, there's always something more. So so this is a great great fix by actually a I think Sapa To improve how headers and footers round trip to pptx I here's some work from Mike Kagansky. I think a multi-column text layout and impress Something really really cool there Thanks to co-investment from suzer. This is a really big problem, but suzer really helped us focus on that and fun part of it Miklos is hack week doing doing bottom-to-top left-to-right text very important If you have a box that does that I'm another customer here. So tupi tack is a research institution in turkey Which does lots of great things and so Mohammed and miklos together have I've got this this project put together to improve how the bibliography references work And just make them much more usable and intuitive and powerful, which is cool Another example here of partnership is with new and off corn houses business Doing you know making visible digital signatures in draw so that you can see See your documents being signed and and sign it I guess in an elegant way Another interoperability win is getting custom geometry and image effects. So gusha has been working hard on this And really really nice to to see that and a whole load of effects going there as well that I can't can't show you and again Thanks to suzer Cashed fields so your calendars interoperate. This is one of my favorites. Um so we have A competitor out there with a fork of a Libra office that contributes relatively little back Upstream that had a feature a custom proprietary feature that there would then stick a line You know in your header to try and achieve this and fiddle with some code We we took a different approach to implement, you know the future properly Put that in the core and the user experience for that make sure it interoperates Nicely and to get that back into Libra office for everyone's use and you know We'd like to encourage you to use suppliers that contribute So why bother sharing all these contributions? I mean lots of people do amazing things for Libra office You know the volunteers are doing cool things out there every day I'm sure you know if you're if you're here and watching you've done cool things for Libra office Well, it's a good question. Um, some people differentiate from their competitors or some suppliers with proprietary value ads I'm really we want to encourage customers to select a supplier, you know based on competence And competence proven by actual contribution Um, we think that's the best way to get virtuous cycles of actually contributing and uh and growing a competence there and so, you know Another reason is I guess to to remind people that as tdf wrestles, you know, it's wrestling at the moment to work out How who pays for what and how we can make this economically sustainable? It's really helpful Um to remember that the customers And partners really help drive our mission All of all of this stuff is paid for by customers if we're all unemployed tomorrow We would still probably many of us would do things for Libra office because we love the project But we wouldn't be able to do nearly as much as we we can do With funding speaking of which one of the things we're thrilled about is to have moved Mimo now to uh, you know a proper supported base now here with the stack of people and thanks to All of the people in the community that have made the case and helped there for a long time um, so uh with atos and arowa Canabras is thrilled to be able to uh Well, you know for a start for, you know, the sort of 160 ish patches To the oldest branch to make sure that this is a secure and safe deployment as well as actually fixing these things and shipping This bespoke a version of Libra office for the French ministries So great great to be able to do that together Then is another example of a a sort of distribution or distribution of Libra office that You know, it's built on the technology and this is great for all of those users so Talk briefly about collaborative online And you know some of the performance work that we've done in that I've got a 30 minute talk on friday, so i'm going to skip the slide Just to show you how much hard work we've done to really You know zero in on performance and improve that massively um, some of the nice things i mentioned the uh bringing draw to online font work is pretty fun Making making drawer a useful a piece of that product just nice features everywhere It's very hard with so much done in a year and again core core will have a talk on what we've done in the last year To try and make that Expand on this there's really a lot happened um Another important thing that we heard was that you know more documentation was wanted to be to be open. So we've opened up our Much of our documentation. So there's the you know sdk there now. You can search here. There's all sorts of installation help API documentation, so it's just very easy to now Write and improve an integration and make up. It's very easy to write an integration anyway But you know, we've made it substantially easier there by opening that up And we're just really grateful for all of the people that have contributed code Who are not from calabra? And of course those who contributed translations absolutely wonderful To you to have people come and help us out, you know in our mission to get digital sovereignty Back in your hands so you can control your own documents data workloads network and software So, uh, I'm not going to go on about it a lot, but we'll have a little Conference dedicated to that after the libre office conference Uh in next next week. Um, so there you go eight years of collaborative activity. Well Uh by affiliation last year something like uh, 4 000 commits out of 12 13 thousands Um, that's actually decreasing. So if you if you look at the proportion of calabra commits It's gone down significantly since last year Which I think is a concern that some people have that calabra was too too large. So payfully that is starting to be addressed And uh, you know, it's important that we can all you know build successful businesses that really contribute Around the libre office technology and you know get get more more more diversity and more people are working there People often ask me what percentage of tdf, you know, like there's a whole lot of commits there But the document foundations volunteers and donors have paid for some proportion of that So, uh, you know, it's around 5% of our revenue this year so far this year and about 1% last year So I just provide that as the guidance On on that pie chart, but every 5% is welcome. It really is, you know, like Wonderful to have a tdf as a customer Um, other ways we serve. Well, there's a lot of places we serve on the board I was encouraging people to stand there earlier. Let me encourage people to stand for the membership committee Uh, my hand in car has now moved on to other things, but he he's served us on membership committee for much of the year On the ec of course funding of cash donations from calabra And well, you know, I think probably the biggest thing that we do is every day We tell people about the libre office technology We we tell people about the goodness of open source a free software how to get involved and how to, uh, you know, how to I guess free their systems and get that advantage built on top of that technology base So there's a big old sales and marketing effort there on our team something like 37 committers in the last 12 months to You collaborate online and also the libre office core And lots of people behind the scenes and lisa you heard about from itale writing in creating beautiful graphics Um, but you know, uh, william doing sys admin, uh for us and helping with marketing And lots of people whose names university in terms of finance and hr and support Uh behind the scenes. So yeah, do you do consider joining us? We have a whole load of Uh a job. I say we have a whole lot of job We have one job offer at the moment, which is for a marketing, uh, manager So we'd love to if you have skills in marketing and you'll have excellent english Um, then you know, please do look at that. But otherwise collaborate is hiring You know, we love to have sharp people join our team And deliver on all of our many things we do here are some of the team Uh that we uh, we try to uh, we would love to be with you. Um, but you know things being what they are it's hard and here are my conclusions so Well, it's our mission applied. It's what we do every day We try and make open source rock and make that LibreOffice technology rock We want to liberate people's documents get them collaborating You know in a safe and federated way on their own infrastructure with with workloads and Servers that they control networks they control and get their privacy back Um everything we do and I I've said this a lot more in previous years So let me just labor this point a little bit It's very easy to assume that software writes itself That quotes the community magically does things Um, but the community actually is made up of people and many of those people are paid for by Our customers and partners whether it's our company or others around the system You know the ecosystem. It's important that people pay for something Um, because without that we can't do what we do Conversely our customers and partners rock. They're awesome. We we you know, they make possible everything that we do We can't do anything without them And of course, we can't do it without our staff too. So thank you to all the staff We've done, you know, extremely hard work this year and the community that works alongside us It's a privilege and a pleasure to work alongside You know, many of you and thank you for making it fun It's you know, it's really appreciated You know the encouragement and and goodness that comes from seeing people jump in and contribute. That's that's just great I'm in terms of our branding. That's one of our only assets And you know drives the leads and the credit that funds the fund by our customers and partners Beyond that it's an absolute pleasure to be able to sponsor the LibreOffice conference. Uh, I you know, uh, it's We're really missing seeing you in person. Hopefully next year I will be able to you know meet up and chat and talk about all things On your mind and you know go deeper. So thank you so much. That's pretty much It um, and if there are any questions comments, I'll be around in the the room And thank you for listening Thank you, Mike. Um, there is a not a question, but there is a comment. Let's say Uh, I can't tell the name because it's it's written in arab and I'm not able to read it But the comment is in english. So I just want to say that Collabora sets a very good model I was thinking about uh, how We can make businesses Floss driven and the first org that came to my mind was Collabora The way he does business is a big inspiration to me and I'm sure it's been an inspiration to many other people and businesses too Thank you. That's the comment. Thank you very much. I mean, it's a it's a very positive comment I think it's probably worth saying there's a mix of uh, there's a mix of views on that But but thank you. I mean, we appreciate encouragement. I mean, it's amazing It's amazing how important that is Uh, you know to to me and the staff. So thank you. We're trying to do the right thing It's not it's not easy making a business in in open source And uh, you know, and it's a privilege to do it with the community's support So we really appreciate your help help doing that all of you. Uh, so thank you