 We're happy to have you here and welcome back to the Force Asia Summit. Thank you. So let's cover this topic which is about LibreOffice positioning in the market. When we started LibreOffice, that was 10 years ago, but even before when OpenOffice was started, and you know that LibreOffice is the successor of the hair of LibreOffice. The documents had to be printed to be shared, but then with the arrival of internet there was an evolution from totally analog, which means only printing, to digital, which means the interoperability of documents. The first example of this was HTML because HTML decoupled software and contents, so it was possible to read any website from any browser as it is today without thinking about the tools that you were using. Yes, there have been attempts to make HTML proprietary, but luckily the W3C forum consortium avoided this. And the next step was starting the cloud solutions. So between 2005 and 2010, the trend to interoperability was there was an answer with the XML-based document format, and the standard was developed. The standard is open document format. Of course, being the document format, a very important component of the solution, Microsoft presented the pseudo-standard document format, Office Open XML is basically not a standard, and there was a war of the formats, unfortunately, given to the market power of Microsoft. The Microsoft format was accepted rather widely. People ignore completely the advantages of ODF and the disadvantages of Office Open XML, which is the cornerstone of Microsoft locking strategy today. Then after 2010, several freeware offices entered the market. They are basically reverse engineered clones of Microsoft Office. They do not solve the locking problem. They increase Microsoft locking strategy by sticking to Microsoft document formats. The market for Office Ritas, you can see these are analyst figures. The market is rather big. In 2022, we will be around 27 billion dollars, which is a huge figure. By 2025, we will exceed 31 billion dollars. Of course, having control in this market means a lot of money. This is what Microsoft and Google are doing. They are the two largest players at the moment in this market. They are using a global strategy to embrace the users. The users are not knowledgeable about the issues that are attached to these products, which are a lower security of documents, a locking strategy from Microsoft, and it's funny to realize that Google is supporting Microsoft locking strategy. But this is the reality. If you look at the growth of the market, as you see after 2020, where there was a sharp drop from 2021 to 2025, it's rather stable, plus 5% per year. When we announced LibreOffice, now it's almost 12 years ago, we wanted to relaunch the innovation. OpenOffice was the risk of abandoning the product, and we wanted to add a product that was independent from large corporations. We tried to develop a self-sustaining project. The project is self-sustaining, of course. We are also trying to improve the sustainability of the project. Sustainability of open source is another big topic to discuss. I've made some presentation on that, and if people want to get more information, I'm happy to share those with them. During those 10 years, LibreOffice has undergone through several development cycles. The first release was the three-point to be aligned with OpenOffice. It was focused on code cleaning. The 4.x release was refactoring the code. We basically renewed most of the old components that were still and are still in Apache OpenOffice. Then with the 5. family, we worked a lot at the user interface to provide users with several options. With the 6.x family, we extended to different platforms. LibreOffice, which is available today for cloud and mobile, and different flavors of cloud and mobile. With the current family, 7.x, we are working, focusing on document compatibility. Unfortunately, not being a standard compatibility with OpenXML, with the Microsoft Office format, is not a trivial objective. The format changes, although the user doesn't see this, because these are internal. Code changes at code level, changes every couple of months. Actually, the standard is still the standard as accepted by ISO, but as I said, that was not a standard. It's still the 2008 version. But after that, there have been at least 40 different evolution of that. The evolution happened in a totally obscure way. The documents are published on the Microsoft Office website, but they have not been submitted to ISO. So basically, the format and the standard are two different things. To grow LibreOffice, the community created a development infrastructure. You can see here the different tools we use. Garrett, Tinderbox, we use Baxilla for bugs. We use other tools, Weblate for translation. We use Git for development. We have a crash reporting tool. We analyze performances. So this is a global infrastructure which is managed by the Document Foundation and supports the development of LibreOffice. To make it easier for developers to start hacking LibreOffice, the developers have also added a simpler tool. The main tool is the UNO. UNO is basically all the code behind LibreOffice. But the LibreOffice kit is a smaller tool which allows to access LibreOffice functionalities using C and C++ without the need to use UNO, which is, as I said, another complex. So this is a thin API for LibreOffice. And people can write external apps without to compile or link LibreOffice and learn other complex languages. And in addition, it allows rendering of documents for any applications. This is something which maybe is not very well known by developers, but I encourage you to look at the LibreOffice kit. It makes your life easier if you are a developer. In addition, it has been a huge localization effort. LibreOffice is shipping in 120 different languages. It's the software localizing more languages in the global software market, twice as many as Microsoft Office, and even 25 more than the next one, which is an open source project. So we basically serve in their native language almost 6 billion people in the world. To improve the quality, we are using static code analysis tool. The main one is Covertiscan. The defect density of LibreOffice was reduced from 1.1 at open office time to 0.00 and which is today's defect density. The density is measured every 1,000 lines of code and LibreOffice is over 6 million lines of code. The density for a similar size project is 0.71, so it's several orders of magnitude. Although we are talking of a very small number, it's several orders of magnitude bigger than LibreOffice. We are also using fuzzing tools to spot vulnerabilities as soon as possible and hopefully before they get to the user. So far crossing fingers, no vulnerability has ever reached the user. The user that is regularly updating LibreOffice, of course if you use an old version, vulnerabilities may be there, but if you use the last available version, the vulnerability are not there. And in terms of vulnerabilities, LibreOffice is several orders of magnitude lower than any Office of an XML-based Office Suite, starting from Microsoft Office, which is the worst one, but also other ones like only Office on WPS Office. The number of vulnerabilities is strongly related to Office of an XML, which is a very extremely unsecure document format. In terms of user interface, we have announced the notebook bar in different flavors. This is to provide users coming from Microsoft Office something similar to what they are used. And there is a main, let's say, a large version, a compact version and also a grouped version that provides different approaches to the same issue, which is to have something that is similar, is not the same because we have tried to provide something which is better than the Ribbon, the Microsoft Office Ribbon, but and so we have the approach has been to develop something to address the same issue, but not using the totally the same approach. And in terms of interoperability, for documents, as I said, we have many people focused on this topic and the tool is what we call the round-trip test. We get a document, a Microsoft Office document, we import it, we check that the resulting LibreOffice are exactly the same, we and we re-export it from LibreOffice and we want to that the situation in Microsoft Office is exactly the same as the starting document. We do this for several thousands of documents on an ongoing basis with automatic tools and of course this helps engineers to spot issues and to work at issues. If you have used the last version of LibreOffice, you've probably realized the level of improvements we have made to the software. But of course, we still suggest to use the ODF format. And also we have provided script-forged libraries for macros that are these libraries are ready to use libraries and allow people to create documents with macros in a simple way. A little bit about the ODF, as I said, it's an ISO standard, it's the only real ISO standard, it's a solid and robust document format, it's consistent across the operating system, which means that if you develop the document in one operating system and open it with another operating system, the document is exactly the same. And it's truly interoperable in the sense that you don't have to tweak anything to have the same document on different machine and operating system. And it's predictable, which means that if you create two very similar documents or you create the same documents on two different machines, two different personal computers, the underlying code will be extremely similar, if not absolutely identical. So the ODF is truly the best standard format for user of personal productivity software. Unfortunately, Microsoft Market Power has pushed the users to use a Microsoft document format. This is a big issue in terms of security, in terms of cost, in terms of robustness of the documents. Many people lose their contents because of the weakness of Microsoft Office formats. So LibreOffice is, in general, the best office suite as a strong community and a strong ecosystem and is the best of open source as professional support available for enterprises and community support for individuals. The product as evolved in 2010 was available only for the desktop. Today, there is a version for the desktop from the Document Foundation. There are long-term supported version optimized for enterprise from ecosystem companies. There is a LibreOffice online for the cloud, mobile for Android and iOS, and LibreOffice for Chrome OS. These products share the same engine. We will see in the next slide, but they are from different companies. So they may have different names. You, from the LibreOffice website, there are different sections on the product section where you are able to reach all the offerings, either the one from the Document Foundation or the other offering from these ecosystem companies. So you are invited to test LibreOffice on the different platform. As I said, LibreOffice has a common productivity engine. This is a really huge advantage because using the same engine on the desktop, on mobile and on cloud, we produce documents which are extremely consistent and so they are really interoperable. Of course, the user interface may be slightly different because there are specificities for platforms. The desktop user interface cannot be as the same as a mobile user interface, but the productivity engine is the same and this means that we produce only one flavor of document. All the other Office Suite, as I said, they have a different engine for the desktop, for mobile and for the cloud. And therefore, a different engine will generate a slightly different or a completely different document. Of course, the user interface will be different as well, but the issue is if you generate a document on mobile, that document may not be the same on the desktop or on the cloud and vice versa. While with LibreOffice, any version of LibreOffice will allow you to open any document generated from LibreOffice in the open document format without any issue. So LibreOffice, we say that today LibreOffice is more a technology than a product because it's a platform to develop personal productivity applications. It's tightly integrated on the desktop, mobile and cloud. And the development is consistent, so you will always have... If you use this last version, you will always have the same engine independently from the platform you are using LibreOffice on. We have also created a logo for the LibreOffice technology. We are using it... Ecosystem companies are starting to use it. This logo shows that the product may have a different name, but it's based on the LibreOffice technology. And the software that we have today is on the desktop. We have it from the Document Foundation, Red Hat and Suze. We have an enterprise long-term supported version from Colabora and Allotropia. We have online and cloud version always from Colabora and Allotropia. We have Android version from Colabora. iOS and Apple store version from Colabora and Windows store version from Allotropia. As I said, in some cases, this software, as the LibreOffice name, in other cases, as not the LibreOffice name is called Colabora Mobile, for instance, but the reality is that it's a LibreOffice technology-based product. So the engine is LibreOffice. Thank you for listening. And if you have questions, I'm happy to answer them. I will unshare my video.