 Welcome back everyone. So I'm Björn Michaelsen. That's me. And I'm working on LibreOffice for Ubuntu for quite a while. So I thought maybe I'd give you some insight since LibreOffice is around for quite a while already how that developed. And for me, this story begins around October 2010. On rainy day and when I was sitting in Nagelsweeg in Hamburg in a corporate office and some car was decided to fork LibreOffice while I was working in an open office. That was my reaction to that. And yeah, if you know me, you might guess what happened next. There was an epic discussion on the German open office mailing list with references to Monty Python's Life of Brian. What did the Romans ever do for us? And, well, it was 900 mails on that fat alone. And in the end I had tossed in a beer, which I had to give back to him at the next hack first. So that was the start for this. Two months later, I quit my job at Oracle and another two months later, having never done Debian or Ubuntu packaging before, I released this, which was the first LibreOffice release on Ubuntu. And it was quite exciting. I can tell you that. So it went on, then we had 4.2, then this happened. We created the Document Foundation in February 2012 and I became one of the first directors, a member of the Board of Directors of this, and it gave me some second thoughts because there was this long flame fest that I did just a few years ago. And if you can read German, you can see some of the statements I did back then. Statements like, oh, if you're not having a few millions and a proper foundation, this is never going to work. This careless rent back then in 2010 suddenly was a mission statement because they had this foundation by that time. So yeah, that was that. And we carried on and tried hard to make this stuff work to actually get a foundation that can be a basis for a project. And of course we carried on doing releases. This is LibreOffice 3.5, the first LibreOffice version on the Ubuntu LTS release and that was supported for five years. So that was the first one with five-year support and so on, next release 3.6. On the next Ubuntu release you can see the first time that the integration with the Unity menu and Unity has been done and so on. This is LibreOffice 4.2 on the next LTS release and it not only has Smiling Happy Cats, it also is again an LTS release. So the second one that is supported for a long time and so on. And at some point I stopped making slides about Ubuntu releases because then five happened. So I'm skipping a few here. And well, then let's skip to this summer. This happened. Canonically joined the Document Foundation advisory board. So we are on board there too which by the way is in addition to, if you look at this, this were all the LibreOffice releases and the Ubuntu releases and the LibreOffice conferences that we did and we sponsored all of those conferences. Canonically sponsored all of them. By the way, who in the audience ever took part in organizing a conference? Can we have an applause for these guys? Okay, so as I said there were a few releases between that I skipped over and this is the one that will be released with Ubuntu 16.10 Yuckity Yuck in a few months and it's LibreOffice 5.2. Actually 5.2.1 is already in this release and it's the first release that also has GTK3 as default backend and the Ubuntu theme also works with it which it did before. So we can carry on there with this story. Just to give you an overview, in addition to all these releases, these are the currently supported Ubuntu releases and the LibreOffice versions that come with it. There are two PPAs with LibreOffice fresh and still in it so you can for most of these install newer versions of LibreOffice on very old versions of Ubuntu. So all this got into place pretty well and it was pretty comfortable with all the stuff that I was doing. In the meantime, by the way, well, I learned to do Debian packaging and got involved in... I never became a Debian developer but I learned to know my ways around there and then this happened. My company announced that we are doing a new packaging format and also I got older than 35 in the meantime and if you have read Douglas Adams, you know that everything invented after you were 35. It's against the natural order of things. So my first reaction was this but actually the more I looked into it, the more I liked what I saw and in the end, soon after this happened and we released LibreOffice 5.2 as a snap package which you can not only install so you can have LibreOffice 5.2 not only on the upcoming LibreOffice release but also on the current LTS release that is currently out and you can install it directly from Snap and this is what you will continue to be able to do as time progresses. So what is the cool stuff about Snap or Snap packages? Well, the first thing is they are contained. That means they bring their own stuff with them and this, for example, makes it possible to easily create a new version of LibreOffice running on an older version of Ubuntu and some other advantages that I don't want to get into details right now but this is one advantage. The next one is, for example, Channels, Stable, can it a better edge so you can select, for example, I'm not doing that currently with LibreOffice but you can also, just from the normal App Store in Ubuntu in the future probably, you will be able to select, I want to have better versions of LibreOffice and can do very easy testing with new versions so it will be a lot easier to just try something out and decide I want to have the more stable stuff or I want to have the older stuff. All the newer stuff. And along the same lines, we have atomic updates. This is how Debian packaging works. Essentially, you rip out the old packages and then you fall on the new and hope everything works out and with snap packages, actually it's all both in parallel and you can have the new one all in place and there is no risk of being suddenly struck in between two chairs or something and the other thing that comes along with that is rollback. Sometimes this can happen with the old packaging which is you jump onto the new package and suddenly everything is broken and with snap packages, you can just go back to the old version, which is great. Yes, and the snap package is already full featured so we have all the backends in there. We also have Java, base, scripting and all that stuff in there and this was announced a few days ago on September 2nd by a co-worker of mine, Michael Hall and that allows plugins to be available in snap packages. Currently, the examples are like multimedia plugins and stuff but I'm excited to try this out for LibreOffice and that will mean that you can, for example, have extensions deployed as snap packages for LibreOffice. Why is this important? Well, it's not that easy to get something into Ubuntu or Debian because there are a lot of rules because if packages break, they break for a lot of people so it's not easy to get stuff in and the bug tracker, for example, has this example. So there are not a lot of, for example, extensions in Debian and Ubuntu. There are a few but not too many but it would be cool to have them in the way so that you would get updates all the time and you wouldn't need to manually download them from the LibreOffice webpage. If you would get them automatically, that would be cool. Actually, we'll allow that. So my plan is to give you an example, extension for LibreOffice and then we can see maybe over the next year to have lots of extensions for LibreOffice available as snaps too. Okay, that's all from me.