Speaker
Description
The EU is moving off proprietary platforms and onto Linux in the name of digital sovereignty. That gives us a unique opportunity to build up the Linux app ecosystem. Specifically, office suites are going to be singled out first, whether you're a government, a company, or a non-profit working with EU offices.
But the many open-source document suites we have today — LibreOffice, Collabora, ONLYOFFICE, and more — most still have many gaps that keep the experience from feeling really complete: low fidelity between editors, broken formatting, dated UI, poor use of AI, and real-time collaboration that feels bolted on rather than built in.
Using ONLYOFFICE as a case study, I'll walk through three things: the engineering decisions we made to address these gaps, why those decisions made Linux users, and not Windows or Mac, our largest base, and what the rest of the Linux app ecosystem can take from any of it. If you are involved in the building of any kind of Linux app trying to win a serious user base, you are in the right room.
Author(s) Bio
Europe's public sector is in the middle of its largest-ever migration away from proprietary office suites: from Schleswig-Holstein's open source deployment shift to Lyon ditching proprietary softwares altogether on 10,000+ government machines.
But switching the editor is only half the battle. Organizations need a complete stack: file management, real-time collaboration, and AI assistance, all self-hosted. This talk demonstrates how to build that stack with Nextcloud, ONLYOFFICE Docs, and locally-hosted AI models, creating a fully open source and sovereign alternative to MS 365 + Copilot where no data leaves your infrastructure.
Attendees will leave with knowledge on the importance of sovereign shift, how to standup a complete office stack on their own infrastructure and with a fresh perspective on local AI models.
Twitter and/or Mastodon Handle
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sawanteeshaan/
| Participation | In-person |
|---|---|
| Track | Main Track |
| Level of Difficulty | Intermediate |
| Pronouns | HE/HIM |
| Do you require any special accommodations? | none |
