Not only is one German state moving from Microsoft to LibreOffice, but the whole federal government is committing to move to open standards by 2027: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Digital sovereignty is becoming vitally important. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data.
Excellent! Not just because they're moving to LibreOffice, but because they're doing the exercise of moving in the first place. A major reason why organizations stick with bad tech is because they don't know how to lift & shift.
just wish my university would let us submit assignments in .ODF format, as we can only really use Word... and as a Linux user that means Word Online, which is slow and clunky.
@toran Oh no! Ask your uni why they won't accept standardised formats, and force students to use specific software. It's the exact opposite of what unis should be doing. If they say "We use Microsoft Office/365", point out that Microsoft also supports ODF so they should at least accept documents in that format!
or just maybe They don't have enought money to continue using Microsoft apps ? Just got this in my mind. In poland some hospitals also using Libre and it is really bad to work with. And this is just because they dont't want to buy. Not because of security or other major problems. Just because of money.
Congratulations 🎉 Maybe little known: the German federal government was required to be able to process ODF since 2010 already: cio.bund.de/SharedDocs/downloa…
> Das bedeutet, dass die Bundesverwaltung bis zum 01. Januar 2010 in der Lage sein wird, Dokumente im Format ODF zu empfangen, zu bearbeiten, zu erstellen und zu versenden.
They seem to be standardising on ODF, not LibreOffice per se. Since MS Office also "supports" ODF (badly) I predict a longterm win for Microsoft. Either they'll just stick to it and endure the bad ODF support, or they'll erroneously blame ODF and lament that "unfortunately there's no practical alternative".
Back to the roots. Staroffice, the grandfather of Libre office, was born in Germany ~40 years ago. Despite several semi-successful conversion attempts, I hope this time the transformation will be permanent.
oh wow, I know that the Dutch gov is implementing opensource as well (using La Suite and OpenDesk) but MS's office suite is the biggest hurdle to replacing Office365. Maybe this will finally become an option? @opensource
Sorry, but unfortunately it's not quite that rosy. It's only a small federal state that is changing over. I could share the euphoria more if it were one of the big states in the south of Germany. Unfortunately, the city of Munich switched back to Microsoft when they built their German office there 😒
I'd be surprised if the German #bundesregierung really will switch to open standards. The new conservative government will soon realise who is able to pay more.
Good news! This fits well into ZenDiS' (Germany's center for digital sovereignity) current efforts to push "openDesk" (an open-source MS365 replacement product, in particular for authorities), which includes Collabora Office. See also @zendis
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •Toran "Torspedia" Shaw
in reply to LibreOffice • • •LibreOffice
in reply to Toran "Torspedia" Shaw • • •karlggest
in reply to LibreOffice • • •@toran
Toran "Torspedia" Shaw
in reply to LibreOffice • • •I'll try, ta... they're heavily invested in the MS ecosystem, as we're given 365 accounts on sign up.
Didn't know that Word also opens .odf files, so will ask them about it. Ta! 🙂
Bart Knubben
in reply to LibreOffice • • •LibreOffice
in reply to Bart Knubben • • •Dominik
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •Kobold
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •How is #OpenDocumentFormat interoperability these days? The last #odfplugfest was 8 years ago.
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odfplugfest.orgRobert Berger
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Not before.
Enea Lecas
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •Błażejko (ProxyDark)
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Sensitive content
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •Konstruct
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Northants Greens
in reply to LibreOffice • • •LibreOffice
in reply to Northants Greens • • •Using Open Document Formats (ODF) in your organisation
Government Digital Service (GOV.UK)Stefan Scholl
in reply to LibreOffice • • •a new government will be formed in the following weeks.
I doubt they will stick to it. They are not the kind of people who don't listen to rich lobbyists.
lebout2canap ⏚
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Guido Günther
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Congratulations 🎉 Maybe little known: the German federal government was required to be able to process ODF since 2010 already: cio.bund.de/SharedDocs/downloa…
> Das bedeutet,
dass die Bundesverwaltung bis zum 01. Januar 2010 in der Lage sein wird,
Dokumente im Format ODF zu empfangen, zu bearbeiten, zu erstellen und zu
versenden.
(wasn't easy to get this into place)
hambier
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Staroffice, the grandfather of Libre office, was born in Germany ~40 years ago. Despite several semi-successful conversion attempts, I hope this time the transformation will be permanent.
Gina
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Michael
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Sozan
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •Leela Torres
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Unfortunately, the city of Munich switched back to Microsoft when they built their German office there 😒
Only Exception
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •tessarakt
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •Angry sweet antiracist enby
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Ríni Fogol
in reply to LibreOffice • • •I belive states and provinces plays this freedom-game to get better prices?
Dirk Seefeld
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Frederic
in reply to LibreOffice • • •See also @zendis