LibreOffice Online Development Resumes After Community Vote
What's Happening
The Document Foundation (TDF) has officially resumed development of LibreOffice Online after the community voted to nullify the 2022 resolution that had frozen progress on the project.
Key Details from the Source
The announcement titled "LibreOffice Online: a fresh start" states that TDF will:
- Reopen the repository for LibreOffice Online at The Document Foundation for contributions
- Provide warnings about the state of the repository until TDF's team agrees that it's safe and usable
- Encourage the community to join in with code, technologies and other contributions
- Actively work with the community to identify how to foster LibreOffice Online, including its technological basis, QA and marketing
Importantly, TDF announced that it won't host the servers at all. Instead, it will give users the tools to host it themselves.
The original 2022 freeze was due to community concerns about competing with Collabora Online (owned by one of LibreOffice's bigger contributors) and concerns about maintaining an official cloud service and the associated costs.
What This Means
This approach addresses previous concerns by avoiding direct competition with Collabora Online and eliminating the need for TDF to maintain and fund server infrastructure. The self-hosted model puts control in users' hands while keeping the project community-driven.
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