“As we come to the end of another extraordinary year, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our customers, partners, community and of course the awesome team at Collabora Productivity.

“We’re focused on making Open Source rock by creating beautiful, intuitive tools that work online and off, and keep you firmly in control. We love to work alongside a vibrant global community that believes productivity should be open, secure, and designed for users. We are most grateful to our partners and customers who ultimately fund every document we liberate and line of code we write – thank you!”

Michael Meeks
Collabora Productivity CEO

COOL 25.04

Collabora Online 25.04 was our biggest step forward in usability, performance and document rendering in years. This release wasn’t just about adding features – it was about making everyday work smoother, faster, and more intuitive for millions of users. Just a few highlights include:

Smoother, more polished editing

One of the less visible improvements was the work on performance. With updates such as viewport-based preloading aiming for a 60fps smooth editing experience, documents now feel noticeably more responsive. Scrolling and typing are snappier, zooming more fluid, and larger documents load with far less waiting around. A huge quality-of-life win.

Smarter writing tools: Autotext & Custom Dictionaries

Writer gained powerful new productivity helpers this year.

Autotext speeds up repetitive writing and helps teams standardise phrasing, while Custom Dictionaries make it easy to ensure technical terms, product names, or organisational jargon are treated correctly. Small features, big dividends for anyone who works with words all day.

Combined with central management capabilities, these are serious features for organisations big and small looking to level up their language use and consistency.

Clearer, easier collaboration with improved comments

Commenting saw significant enhancements too. Updates across the UI make discussions smoother, more reliable, and easier to follow – especially important in documents with multiple collaborators. These improvements continue our ongoing effort to make collaborative editing as simple as possible.

Modern PDF support and digital signing

The introduction of PDF 2.0 compatibility and built-in digital signatures thanks to an integration with eID Easy brought a major boost to organisations with modern document-signing needs. Users can now create, read and sign modern PDFs directly within Collabora Online – no more need to share your sensitive documents with 3rd party document signing companies.

A Presenter Console built for impressive presentations

Impress gained a fully-featured Presenter Console, giving speakers everything they need: upcoming slides, timers, notes, and navigation tools. Whether in the boardroom, classroom, or conference hall, Collabora Online now offers a far more complete presentation experience.

Improved Interoperability - The work that never stops

Alongside the headline features, COOL 25.04 continued our constant, meticulous work on interoperability. Hundreds of small fixes and refinements across Writer, Calc, and Impress to make sure documents open cleanly and behave as users expect – whether they are edited in our software, or shared with collaborators in a different editing environment.

Major UI/UX Refresh

This year we delivered our biggest UI/UX refresh yet. The simple aim was to use the data we’ve gathered to reduce friction, make powerful features more discoverable, and let users move faster with less training. Some of the updates include:

Context-aware design: controls when and where you need them

Selecting text now triggers a compact, contextual toolbar right next to your cursor – so common formatting tools (bold, italic, font, colour, etc.) are instantly available without hunting through menus.

Smart tabs

Instead of overwhelming toolbars, we introduced contextual tabs – for example, auto-switching to the Table tab when you’re editing a table, or the Picture tab when an image is selected.
This keeps the UI cleaner, less intimidating, and more relevant to the task at hand.

Cleaner layout, responsive toolbars, better discoverability

The UI now adapts gracefully to different window sizes: controls re-flow, related functions group when space is tight, and horizontal scrollbars are eliminated – giving a smooth, consistent experience, and improving function discoverability whether you’re on a compact screen or a large monitor.
We also improved iconography, and added more graphics for commonly used layout settings so all users can find the settings they need

Data-driven design – built from real usage patterns

This overhaul wasn’t guesswork. Behind the scenes, we collected feedback from customers, partners, community, and internal usage data: more than 1,000,000 data points from real editing sessions. The result? A UI shaped around how people actually work, balancing simplicity, power, and flexibility.

Community

Collabora’s mission to “Make Open Source Rock” continues to thrive thanks to our incredible and diverse community. Every bug you reported, every string you translated, every patch you submitted and every insight you shared has helped make Collabora Online better for millions of users around the world. Thank you for being such a wonderful force behind our progress.

This year our community grew stronger than ever. We welcomed over 100 new contributors across code, translations and documentation. From first–time patch authors to long-time translators, you all reflect the healthy, global momentum of the project. We resolved 251 community-reported issues on github so far this year, showing how active collaboration continues to shape the roadmap. We also created 85 new Easy Hacks, and with 72 still open, there are plenty of approachable ways for newcomers to get involved.

Our translation community was equally impressive in 2025, reaching 92 supported languages, with more than 100 translators who completed 88,683 translated strings and nearly one million translated words. Two new languages joined this year as well, expanding accessibility for even more users.

Marketing Stats

2025 was also a big year for marketing and outreach, with our blogs, videos, social media and press activity reaching a wider audience than ever. We also launched French, German and Spanish translations of our website to help even more organisations learn about open, secure, sovereign document editing. Here are some of the highlights:

2025 saw us kick off a new #FeatureFriday video series, to introduce new features of Collabora Online. One of the more popular videos in the series featured some of the collaborative features in Collabora Online: Collaboration Features in Collabora Online #FeatureFriday.

2025 also saw our new Open Matters podcast introduced, exploring open source news and topics. Why not have a listen here to our December episode exploring some of the history, struggles and progress of open source projects in Denmark: Open Source for Citizens: Denmark’s Bold Experiment.

Press coverage grew dramatically in 2025, with 178 articles and blog posts published by year’s end — up sharply from 59 mentions in 2024 — reflecting both increased momentum and rising recognition of Collabora Productivity’s role in open, sovereign digital infrastructure. November, marked by the launch of Collabora Office, was a particular highlight: in just one week, the announcement generated 36 articles, including coverage from Heise, MSN and ZDNet (which was localised and syndicated across multiple countries with a recently updated title “Not enough people are talking about this free Microsoft Office alternative”) Overall sentiment was strongly positive at 87%, and we expect coverage to continue growing as further updates land.

This year we also hosted a number of webinars outlining our product lineup, new features, integrations with our partners, and of course the new Collabora Office.

Speaking of which, our new Collabora Office release blog attracted some serious attention in November, you can read more about that here.

And finally, our new comic, “The Open Road to Freedom” (or TORF for short), took a more light-hearted look at the world of FLOSS software communities.

New Integrations, Partners & Team

2025 saw growth not just in users and deployments, but in people, partnerships and the wider ecosystem around Collabora Online.

Our team grew by 24 new colleagues, including 13 former allotropia team members and 4 interns, strengthening our engineering, design and community efforts. Behind those hires sat a remarkable level of interest: 3,669 applications, 73 interviews, and a recruitment pipeline driven largely by the open-source community itself – 36% via community channels. A clear sign that people want to work on open, meaningful technology, many thanks to all who applied even if we couldn’t host everyone (yet).

At the same time, our ecosystem continued to expand. We welcomed 34 new partners this year, including more than 15 OEMs and deep integrations, spanning hosting providers, collaboration platforms, consultancies and sovereign cloud offerings across Europe and beyond.

We also saw a broadening integration landscape, with new and ongoing work around WordPress, Odoo, Imixs and Plone (only Odoo and WordPress are supported by us currently), making it easier than ever to use Collabora Online wherever documents are created and shared.

Collabora Productivity is growing, and so is the opportunity to be part of it! If you’re looking to integrate, partner, or deploy, there’s never been a better time to get involved.

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From Monday 2nd to Wednesday 4th June, our annual COOL Days conference brought the Collabora Online community together in beautiful Budapest, and we’re still buzzing from it! Hosted at the stylish Mövenpick Hotel, this year’s event was packed with engaging talks, unforgettable team-building, and plenty of laughs – not to mention a new company mascot who stole the show.

Talks, Tech & 74 Ways We’re Growing

Beyond the team building activities, COOL Days 2025 was a powerhouse of ideas and collaboration. We…

• Celebrated our growth over the past year and shared plans for the exciting road ahead.
• Unveiled upcoming features from the soon-to-launch Collabora Online 25.04 release – stay tuned!
• Showcased the work of our team and wider community through an incredible 59 lightning talks.
• Dug deep in 15 workshops, panels, and keynotes, covering everything from product integration to community engagement.
• And hosted dedicated partner workshops, where we listened as our valued partners shared their hopes for the future roadmap, and explored how we can work even better together to serve end-users.

 

The energy and knowledge shared across those three days was inspiring. The dedication, creativity, and passion from everyone involved is what makes COOL Days so… well, cool.

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Until Next Year!

Thanks to everyone who helped make COOL Days 2025 such a vibrant, energising event – our wonderful partners who keep the ideas flowing, the inspiring lightning talkers making the magic happen, and everyone else involved. We’ve scattered a few photos throughout this post to give you a flavour of the fun, and we’re already looking forward to what the next year will bring.

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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 our solutions truly meet the needs of businesses, governments, and academia.

In a busy week in March we attended two key events – Documation in Paris and CS3 in Munich, connecting with partners, customers, and open-source advocates. Whether it’s supporting European digital sovereignty[link to EU post if published] or empowering academia with scalable, self-hosted document collaboration, these gatherings are essential for building a stronger, more integrated open-source ecosystem.

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The weekend kicked off with the EU Open Source Policy Summit, a platform for the new EU administration to engage in meaningful discussions with the European Open Source community. This summit is important for shaping the future of Open Source in Europe, and we were thrilled to be a part of the conversation. You can find more information about the summit here.

Saturday was the start of FOSDEM, and we dove headfirst into the LibreOffice Devroom. It was a packed schedule with 10 talks from 6 developers, covering a wide range of topics, from recent feature updates and collaboration improvements to UI enhancements and the exciting advancements in LibreOffice technology.

Here’s a quick rundown of the LibreOffice Devroom presentations we were a part of – you can watch the videos via the links below:

Pranam Lashkari

• Improved comments & @mentions

Caolan McNamara

• LibreOffice technology atomic / threading improvements
• Optimizing AutoText & settings for multi-tenant collaboration

Szymon Kłos

• Beautiful remote web dialog widgets built on LOT
• New, shiny WebGL presentations in the browser – presenter console + animations

Attila Szűcs

• COOL UI / UX command tracking & analysis

Skyler Grey

• LibreOffice on mobile with the Collabora Office app

Michael Meeks

• Automatic Documents, packed with content and signed
• COOL – LibreOffice technology in the browser
• Collabora Online – richer collaboration

The day didn’t end with the talks! We also enjoyed the LibreOffice Community Dinner at ICAB Incubator, a fantastic opportunity to network and connect with fellow community members. We also joined with XWiki, Nextcloud & OpenProject for drinks and networking, and the at Open Source Founders Summit Happy Hour – a gathering specifically for Open Source Founders.

On Sunday, Michael participated in a round table discussion in the Government Collaboration room. The focus was on “5 Top reasons why Governments should work together with Open Source Vendors and 5 ways on how to do it!” This was an insightful discussion, exploring how governments can effectively leverage the benefits of Open Source.

Overall, it was an inspiring and action-packed weekend. We’re excited to continue contributing to the Open Source community and look forward to future events!

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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 excellence. Let’s take a moment to celebrate some of the year’s achievements and look forward to the challenges ahead.

Section Editing and Cell Protection

Inspired by a number of our customers, including a French government ministry – we implemented the ability to lock and protect data within spreadsheets. This exciting new feature empowers users to exert greater control over their spreadsheets and collaborate more effectively than ever before.

In a similar vein, we made sections in Writer editable within Collabora Online, allowing you more flexibility with your formatting and the ability to write-protect or hide parts of a documents.

Follow the Editor

We had ‘follow the editor’ functionality for some time in our offering, but this received a new lease of life in 24.04 with a more intuitive interface. Especially useful for conference calls or meetings, enabling all users to follow the note taker without any input required, or to catch up to a location in a document being referred to by another user.

Change Processing

To speed up reviewing of tracked changes, two new buttons have been added to the user interface – ‘Accept and Move to Next’, and ‘Reject and Move to Next’. Combining two functions into one, greatly improves and expedites the processing of tracked changes.

Server Audit

Bringing rapid assistance to Collabora Online employments, you can now immediately troubleshoot your server setup, with quick links to our SDK for fixes and improvements.

Calc Tooltips

No more trouble trying to remember the order of VLOOKUP variables, with a tooltip popup, we give you all the information you need.

Searchable help

Making help more helpful! Quickly browse our online help, or keyboard shortcuts to keep moving!

Auto align/ruler bar

With the new snap-align for images and ruler bar, positioning and aligning content is effortless, allowing users to create visually appealing, well-structured slides.

Present in Window

Choose to share a presentation window while video conferencing, and continue using the rest of your screen for presentation notes, meeting minutes, and viewing video conference attendees. Focus on both audience and content without awkward interruptions or toggling between views.

Interactive Elements

Bringing a whole new level of engagement to presentations, this functionality allows users to set custom actions for images and other presentation elements, such as moving to a specific slide, playing audio, running a program or macro, or simply exiting the presentation from the current slide. Transform your demos, workshops and training sessions into dynamic experiences.

Quicker Comments

Speeding up the editing process greatly, you may add comments into your documents with just two clicks. Right click > ‘Insert Comment’. To keep things moving then hit Ctrl + Enter to save your comment. 

Halving load times

Cutting page load times by as much as 50%, we not carry out more processes in parallel. This leads to noticeably snappier document opening for end users.

Background Autosave

Auto-saving can now be carried out in the background. No longer will you or other users have their editing frequently interrupted by an unexpected ‘Saving’ notification. Sometimes it’s the little things that count!

18x Speed

~18x Speed Boost

This speed-boost stacked two improvement, associated with optimising the rendering and re-rendering process of tiles, and changing the way the threading of this process is handled. These wins compound up to an 18x speed increase in this process of identifying pixels requiring re-rendering!

Automatic Documents

We introduced a new API to read and populate fields in documents without the need to open the document. This means that fields can either be automatically detected and extracted from a document for an end user to fill in, or multiple documents can be quickly created and filled from a database. Similar to a mail merge for email, but with far more power and flexibility, this new API will streamline document creation or form filling across a variety of use cases.

Support

Our customers have access to a support platform and direct contact with engineers. In 2024, we received 890 support tickets, of which 97.5% have already been resolved. We’ve been working very hard this year to give our customers the best support experience possible!

New Integrations

This year we have introduced 2 new integrations which you can now connect with Collabora Online. You can find out more about all the Collabora Online integrators here. We have exciting plans for 2025 already, bringing Collabora Online to more of the places you’re working. 

ILIAS is an Open Source web-based Learning Management System (LMS) that provides a integrated e-learning platform that can be adapted to suit various educational and professional settings, making it a flexible and powerful tool for online learning and knowledge sharing. Features include course management, learning modules, tests and assessments, portfolios, surveys, wikis and blogs for an all-in-one e-learning solution.

Drupal is used to make many of the websites and applications you use every day. It has great standard features, like easy content authoring, reliable performance, and excellent security, and it is used by many different companies in several industries – from government and healthcare institutions, to the retail sector and non-profit organizations. With one simple module, Drupal users can now collaboratively edit, view and share text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings.

New Partners

This year we have welcomed 29 new partners from around the world, many of which are integrating Collabora Online into their applications and providing their customers with a collaborative document editor alongside their other features. We love to partner with like-minded companies to build a fully-featured solution for their customers, allowing more and more users to take control of their data.

1. Xebia
2. Stylez
3. inxire GmbH
4. HumHub
5. OpenKM
6. Librebit
7. WISE
8. Marsh Web Solutions
9. Qualiwise
10. Qast Software Group
11. Pinguin-systeme
12. KTS
13. Flexcloud SAS
14. LoadFront
15. Nevermind
16. Octopuce
17. SPAOS
18. OAK Solutions Inc
19. Scope IT Consulting
20. Circularo
21. PULSE Innovations GmbH
22. Premier Learning Institute
23. ADMIN INTELLIGENCE GmbH
24. Open Circle AG
25. Dinova
26. REDS CLOUD
27. Open Social BV
28. RCA Systems
29. Consolidate Software

Above: Some of the more than 200 partners we currently work with. You can find out more about Collabora Online partners here. 

As well as welcoming new partners, we were also pleased to celebrate ten years of fruitful partnership with Adfinis. You can learn more about our shared journeys here.

New Team

We’re excited to being developing further as a company with new staff joining us throughout the year. This year, we had new staff joining all areas of the business, from marketing to managing, PAs to programming. You can find out more about our current vacancies, and working for Collabora Productivity here. 

Events

This year, we attended nearly 20 conferences around the world, as conference attendees, booth presenters, lightning talkers, round table MCs and keynote speakers. Most recently, we enjoyed being part of the the Open Source Experience (OSXP) and Nextcloud Enterprise Day in Paris, as well as the LibreOffice Latinoamérica conference in Montevideo, Uruguay. We love being able too meet partners, customers and community, receiving valuable feedback and sharing open-source goodness with the world!

COOL Days 2024

It was a pleasure to host so many friends at our annual COOL Days meet up in Cambridge this year. Giving partners, developers, product managers and marketeers the opportunity to exchange ideas face to face led to many excellent discussions, and it is always a great encouragement for us to spend time together with so many like minded people. Why not have a look at our video summary, which gives you a taste of our incredible time there!

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Collabora’s mission to “Make Open Source Rock” has been an ongoing success thanks in part to our amazing diverse community. So, thank you for fixing that bug, translating those missing strings and reporting back with precious insight!

New this year, hosted by Collabora Productivity, our Friday afternoon ‘Tea Time Trainings’ have helped many with more technical talks aimed both at giving back to the community, and sharing our knowledge with each other. Catch up on the talks here!

Why not join the discussions in our forum, our community calls every Thursday at 12pm CEST, tea time training every Friday at 13pm CEST, translate strings on Weblate, file bug reports or feature requests on GitHub and spread the word on Collabora Online!

Marketing

The Collabora Productivity marketing team has had a busy year promoting open-source goodness both at offline events and online on our shiny new website, blog posts, videos, and social media accounts (follow us here!)

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The most popular content of the year was of course that related to our major annual release, but other more popular content included our involvement in the openDesk 1.0 release, our white papers such as the one outlining the benefits Collabora Online brings to a workplace, or case studies such as our new partnership with the team at OpenText Filr.

Alongside this, our restarted #FeatureFriday playlist amassed over 1,000 views this year, helping users get the most out of Collabora Online. You can view some of the videos below, or see the whole playlist here.

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Rounding Up...

All in all, it’s been an excellent year for document freedom, digital sovereignty, and development at Collabora Productivity. Before we close with a comment from our CEO, on behalf of the marketing team and all the staff at Collabora Productivity, we’d like to wish everyone in our community a very joyful Christmas, and a happy new year!

“Reading here I was amazed that we had achieved so much together in just one year, thanks to everyone, particularly our partners and community contributors, that have helped to support our growth and work to liberate people’s documents.”

Michael Meeks

Collabora Productivity CEO

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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 Paris, and the LibreOffice Latinoamérica conference in Montevideo, Uruguay. 

NextCloud Enterprise Day

Starting with the Nextcloud Enterprise Day, it was a delight as always to join our close partner Nextcloud. As the force behind their incredibly popular Nextcloud Office document editor we shared the latest updates to Collabora Online such as automatic document creation and the newest features in our apps. As Nextcloud’s French Marketing Team shared with us last year, the French market for secure and open-source solutions is rapidly growing, and we are excited to be helping enterprises in taking back control of their software and data.

Open Source Experience

Following on from the Nextcloud Enterprise Day, we remained in Paris for the highly popular OSXP – an event dedicated to open-source IT solutions. OSXP report that, “In 2022, the open-source market in France was €6 billion, representing 11% of the global digital market. This growth is sustainable, and has increased 40-fold in less than 20 years.”

Sharing a popular stand with one of our French partners Arawa, many government and business leaders came to speak with us about digital sovereignty, GDPR compliance, and how Collabora Online is helping or could help them achieve their data-security goals. Of particular interest to conference attendees was the fully-attended round-table seminar, Why Pay for Free Software, hosted by Collabora Productivity CEO, Michael Meeks. Bringing together four other open-source CEOs (Frank Karlitschek – Nextcloud GmbH , Philippe Hemmel – Arawa , Anais Concepcion – Grist , Amandine Le Pape – Element / Matrix), the discussion centred on how open-source businesses operate, bringing fully-featured, fully-supported products to the market.

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Launching openDesk 1.0 at the Smart Country Convention

After previously speaking about our involvement in the openDesk project here, we were very excited to attend the Smart Country Convention in Berlin last week as part of the openDesk platform, where one of the standout moments of the event was the launch of openDesk 1.0 – an initiative that aims to transform public administration through open-source solutions and shared resources.

We are thrilled to be part of the openDesk initiative, providing Germany’s public sector with a secure and open-source alternative for office productivity. Collabora Online enables users to easily migrate and collaborate around their existing documents, recovering their digital sovereignty. It’s exciting working together with so many other outstanding products to build a coherent solution for public administration.

Michael Meeks - Collabora Productivity CEO

Working together with Collabora Online and nine other digital service providers, openDesk aims to become the go-to office solution for public administration in Germany and beyond. With everything a modern office could need, including document editing, project management, calendar, email, chat, video conferencing, wikis and more, the pioneering project organised by the German government in collaboration with Zendis is designed to promote security and digital sovereignty, whilst fostering efficiency, and collaboration.

Why openDesk matters?

The launch of openDesk 1.0 is not just a milestone for Germany – it sets a precedent for all nations and organisations striving for digital transformation in their services. By leveraging open-source solutions, openDesk is paving the way for a more secure, sovereign, interconnected and responsive government, that prioritizes the needs of its citizens, and cannot be held hostage by proprietary solutions.

It is also an excellent showcase for the power of open-source solutions – with ten individual but open companies bringing their solutions together as one incredibly powerful and flexible product.

Looking ahead

Speaking with delegates at the conference from local and national government, as well as of course continued discussions with private organisations, it was obvious to see the demand for digital sovereignty, genuinely GDPR-compliant solutions, and responsive software providers is huge. As we look to the future, we are excited about the potential impact of openDesk on public administration. The combination of innovative technologies and collaborative practices promises to lead to more effective governance and enhanced citizen experiences.

We encourage all stakeholders in public administration to find out more about how open-source solutions such as openDesk can benefit them, and how they could be involved in this exciting initiative. Together, we can build a secure, sovereign government.

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Earlier this month, we were pleased to sponsor the Libreoffice Technology Hackfest in Budapest, Hungary, and enjoyed meeting up with some of our fellow LibreOffice Technology hackers. Over two days, a dozen developers from Collabora Productivity and the wider community met up in the Eco Community Space to work on the LibreOffice codebase, and reap the benefits of spending time together.

A hackfest is an event where developers from multiple organisations meet each other, work on what they want and also more freely exchange ideas while being together in person. While having an international community working remotely on the codebase is excellent, there are still many benefits to more directly seeing what problems are being tackled by other developer sitting next to you; and this friendly environment allows building relationships that can then help even more in the future (even remotely).

As one attendee Miklos Vajna shared with us after the event, “It was really great to spend a couple of days with the other developers. I found it very helpful seeing what other people are working on, sharing ideas about the future feature possibilities, and especially enjoyed going out for a dinner with everyone in Budapest after a hard day’s work!”

For this reason, we were very pleased to sponsor this most recent meet up. Many thanks to all who joined us in Budapest, we look forward to seeing you soon at the next meeting!

If you would like to find out more about joining the Collabora Online or LibreOffice community, we would encourage you to join the Collabora Online Community Forum or have a look at the Collabora Online Github to learn about how to get started.

For more information about our upcoming events, and to learn where you could meet us next, do have a look at our events page.

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Thank you to all who attended our COOL Days 2024 meet-up in Cambridge on 8th-11th April – it was a pleasure to host many who had attended previously, and lots of new faces too! We had so much fun organising the event for our partners, the Collabora team, and the Open Source community.If you haven’t had the chance to make it to Cambridge, why not have a look at our video summary, which gives you a taste of our incredible time there!

COOL Days took place at the Møller Institute, a part of Churchill College, one of the newer Cambridge colleges. We started off with a thrilling team-building activity, building and racing go-karts in a Soap Box Derby, and then proceeded to the Møller Institute for a delicious buffet.

Technical Days

And now you all must be wondering: “How many lighting talks could we fit in two days?” – the answer is 93! We were live streaming from Cambridge and our schedule was brimming with in-person and remote presentations, featuring exciting conversations about the work the Collabora Online team, community, and partners have been developing throughout the last year across Europe and the world.

You can re-watch our COOL Days livestream on our YouTube channel.

To download the slides from the Technical Talks, head to our GitHub.

Partner Workshop

On Wednesday afternoon, we held Partner Workshops. We collected data and insights from our partners on the Collabora Online landscape and where we can focus future developments with our roadmap. We also had many open discussions with them about how to support them and work together even more successfully.

Hackfest

Alongside this, we also held a Hackfest for everyone who participates in the LibreOffice Technology community. Many hours were spent coding in person, learning from each other, and fixing bugs with other community members.

Social Events

We also ensured we had opportunities for team building to allow others to get to know other members of the team through our exciting Soap Box Derby contest, an Astronomy Talk at the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy, and, of course, enjoying delicious meals and evening drinks together!

You may have seen some of our team live tweeting from the event. Search #COOLDays and follow us on Twitter, Mastodon, and LinkedIn to see updates from events and conferences throughout the year. We hope to see you at our next COOL Days event!

In the meantime, keep an eye out for where we’ll be next:

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