Event

<p>Why Office is not as easy as you might hope. Come and hear about office algorithms &amp; data structures, as well as the interesting engineering challenges of interoperability from the Libre / Collabora Office experience.</p> <p>Hear how many decades of accumulated backwards compatibility can make life particularly interesting. See why the temptation to start a new office suite from scratch overwhelms many people from time to time, and get some insights into the compromises that brings.</p> <p>Hear about a code-base that has been loved over decades - through many tech fashions: from Java to component programming; from OS/2 to today's advertising subsidized platform of the future: the Web; from CADT methodology, to CRDT data structures; from bundled python to bundled databases.</p> <p>Hear about the incredible lack of user focus that has plagued decisions and made many things worse.</p> <p>Then hear our vision on driving FLOSS Office to take over the world and progress to date; see a number of pretty pixels to sooth your eyes chosen from the ergonomic beauty that is coming to make open source rock.</p> <p>Finally hear how you can get involved with Collabora Online &amp; LibreOffice.</p>