Welcome to our interview series, where we chat with the passionate people behind the Collabora Online code. Collabora Online is made possible by the worldwide team, community, contributors and partners. Today, we’re sitting down with Banobe Pascal, Senior Frontend Engineer at Collabora Productivity, to discuss his journey into tech, his...
Our Biggest UI/UX Refresh Yet Check out Part II here TL;DRWe’re shipping some serious UI/UX improvements designed to feel intuitive, reduce menu-diving, and help you move faster. Think contextual toolbars, smart tabs that appear exactly when you need them, responsive layouts that adapt to any window size, presenter controls, and...
We’ve just worked through the CMA’s 637-page Final decision report (and a few appendices!) on the UK cloud infrastructure market. It’s packed with genuinely interesting data and analysis — the kind of numbers you rarely see in public (even if some of the juiciest bits are, inevitably, redacted). This post...
At Collabora Productivity, we’re passionate about open source and delighted to see the steady progress of LibreOffice, the world’s most powerful free office suite. LibreOffice is also a foundation of our enterprise, supported, collaborative browser-based product – Collabora Online. Why We Love LibreOffice LibreOffice is not just software – it’s...
What a Difference 3 Years Makes TL;DRCollabora Online 22.05 has reached end-of-support. In the three years since it was released, we’ve shipped 11,780 commits across the suite, including most recently a major UI/UX refresh (contextual toolbars, smart tabs, responsive toolbars, presenter controls, iconised menus). If you’re still on 22.05, now’s...
“Why would you spend £5 on a magazine when you can get that online for free?” What does the decline of print journalism have to do with the future of open source software? In this episode of Open Matters, we’re joined by Neil Mohr, former editor of Linux Format, to...
