2026-09-11 –, Auditorium
Collabora Online and Collabora Office are using LibreOffice technology, which has enabled us to contribute lots of work and improvements to LibreOffice over the past year. Come and hear about the many feature improvements from the browser, ODF & interop, as well as the core code - and about the team of volunteers and staff that made them happen, and how you can get involved.
Thorsten is a Collabora hacker and a standards wonk. During his now 25 years of tenure with the code base, he's spent most of his time hacking the code in areas ranging from build system, platform abstraction libraries, Impress and Writer.
Thorsten's a computer scientist by education, and a Free Software enthusiast by heart, a geek from early childhood - and someone who was lucky enough to turn a hobby into an occupation. After first working for Sun Microsystems on the former OpenOffice.org project, he then went with a number of others founding The Document Foundation and LibreOffice.
He's merged his company in 2025 with Collabora Productivity, for extra oomph in helping customers migrate to digital sovereign open source software. For that, his day job now includes substantial amounts of project management and customer interactions, but that does not prevent him from still messing with the code occasionally.