Michael Meeks
Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic Open Source developer. As CEO of Collabora Productivity overseeing an extremely talented team developing Collabora Online, and supporting our customers alongside the community. He has served as a director of The Document Foundation and has contributed to both ODF and OOXML standardization. Prior to Collabora he gained a wide experience as a Novell/SUSE Distinguished Engineer working on various pieces of Free Software infrastructure across the Linux stack.
Session
Come hear about many of the large number of Open Source Office suit projects that have been developed over time in this space - from the early history of KDE and GNOME suites, through OpenOffice and its many derivatives, as well as newer and peripheral code-bases, and office adjacent suites running on FLOSS platforms.
Get some insight into the trajectory, ODF interoperability and feature-set of each of these, and how they compare to a recent LibreOffice.