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Collabora Productivity Turns Ten

Can you believe it, September 2023 marks the ten year anniversary since Collabora Productivity was incorporated?! It has been a brilliant decade, full of hard work, persistence, collaboration, growth, success and of course, fun! We are so grateful to everyone who has supported, contributed and worked with us to make...

Collabora Productivity Awarded Best UK Open Source Organisation

Collabora Productivity has been named Best Organisation at the UK Open Source Awards 2015. The award, presented By Software Freedom Conservancy Executive Director Karen Sandler on Wednesday in Edinburgh, was made for ground-breaking work on LibreOffice in 2014. “This is a time of unprecedented change for British Open Source companies,...

Latest LibreOffice Viewer for Android Brings Faster, Smoother Reading

Collabora’s LibreOffice Viewer for Android brings a major performance update in today’s release. As part of our ongoing development of the separate LibreOffice editor app, user interface rendering has been overhauled ‘under the hood’, with the focus on faster and more accurate fetching of tiles (images which combine to form...

ODF for Cloud Communication Added to Government Catalogue

Collabora is making it easier for the UK Public Sector to comply with Governmental Open Document Format (ODF) policy by offering interoperability services through the G-Cloud6 digital marketplace. Public bodies may now directly commission Open Standards-based solutions to incompatible proprietary formats, and gain expert assistance bridging barriers to legacy back...

LibreOffice on Android – One Less Barrier to Public Sector Open Standards

Today’s launch of the first LibreOffice application for Android pushes our community into exciting new waters. As we speak, new infrastructure is being prepared by Document Foundation Staff for documentation, translation, and bug reporting of the new app, laying the foundations for a busy future. This is just the beginning....

Major Announcements from the ODF Plugfest

Last night Open Forum Europe and The Community For Open Interoperability Standards published a press release about the Open Document Format (ODF) Plugfest event from earlier this week. Collabora attended and wrote our expectations for the meeting on Monday; now here are the outcomes. The announcements, some of which have...