LibreOffice Online: a fresh start - TDF Community Blog
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LibreOffice is a desktop application, but we get many requests for a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure. Several years ago, project members started to develop LibreOffice Online, but in 2022 the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation voted to freeze the project and put it in the “attic”, for reasons that have now been superseded. Earlier this month, the current Board of Directors decided to revoke those votes to give new life to the project, as Eliane Domingos, chairperson, put it: To start the process of freeing LibreOffice Online, and to start the journey that will lead to having an online version by the community and for the community. Now the work begins. We plan to reopen the repository for LibreOffice Online at The Document Foundation for contributions, but provide warnings about the state of the repository until TDF’s team agrees that it’s safe and usable – while at the same time encourage the community to join in with code, technologies and other contributions that can be used to move forward. We will actively work with the community to identify how to foster LibreOffice Online, including its technological basis, QA and
  • RegularWater@kbin.earth
    4·
    15 hours ago

    I really don’t see the appeal nowdays, so many options out there, including collabora (which has the community version).

    I really wanna see the way they’ll do.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      Collabora is a mess. It essentially streams an image from a server running the office suite, and is always an unresponsive mess to use, and gets worse with bad connections.

  • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
    4·
    16 hours ago

    Cool… But like, people know apps exist right? And networked storage? Why does everything gotta be a webapp… Feels like only a matter of time until my desktop calculator is running in Electron.

    • Victoria@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      15·
      15 hours ago

      I recently deployed OnlyOffice for my Nextcloud. Sometimes I want to collaborate with other people in real time on a single document, and the web client is perfectly usable for that. I’m hoping LibreOffice Web can grow into a usable alternative.

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Yeah. Currently using Google Docs for real-time collaboration.

        Would be really cool if I could use LibreOffice instead. Especially cool if I could be hosting the instance on my own software.

        A) No longer giving Google free reign to train its AI on my writing before it’s even published.

        B) No worries about losing all my documents if Google ever decides to ban me.