Blog – Community

Is It Time for European Technology Alternatives?

How Open Source and Sovereign Tech Can Strengthen Europe TL;DR: Europe’s reliance on US tech giants raises compliance, security, and sovereignty concerns. The good news? Open-source solutions offer a transparent, flexible, and truly local alternative. This empowers individuals, businesses, and governments to stay in control. It’s time to choose sovereignty...

Why Attend Conferences?

What We Learned from a Week in Paris & Munich​ At Collabora Productivity, we don’t just develop great open-source solutions – we actively engage with the communities that use and shape them. Attending conferences isn’t just about showing off our technology, it’s about strengthening partnerships, gathering real-world feedback, and ensuring...

Community Sticker Contest

It’s competition time! Are you ready to stick your mark on the COOL community? This is your chance to inject your creativity into the heart of our brand and create the stickers that will be seen and shared by community members worldwide! We’re not just looking for “COOL” – we...

A Whirlwind Weekend of Open Source: FOSDEM and EU Open Source Policy Summit

We had an incredibly busy weekend immersed in the world of Open Source, attending both the EU Open Source Policy Summit and FOSDEM in Brussels! It was a fantastic opportunity to connect with the community, learn about the latest developments, and share our own work. The weekend kicked off with...

What We Achieved Together in 2024

Going into the second decade of our life, we are enjoying the fruits of many years’ hard work, quality partnerships, wonderful customers, and continual improvement. 2024 was a year of great achievement – product enhancements, partnership milestones, new training opportunities, new partnerships, and of course our unwavering commitment to open-source...

Bringing Collabora Online to the World

With partners and users around the world, Collabora Online is a global solution, allowing any and all to take control of their documents and data. In December alone, we attended three international conferences, in two continents – the Open Source Experience (OSXP) in Paris, the Nextcloud Enterprise Day also in...