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Robert Seyfert Mar 19

With the world changing around us, many governments and organisations are trying to reduce their dependency on tech giants. Here's an update on how one German federal state is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (and longer-term, Linux): https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03/13/updates-on-schleswig-holstein-moving-to-libreoffice/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

Updates on Schleswig-Holstein moving to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

Nearly a year ago, we posted about the German state of Schleswig-Holstein’s plan to move 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice. Now, Stephane Fermigier from EuroStack – which promotes European technological sovereignty and open source – has posted an update, citing an article in the German c’t Magazin. It discusses various reasons for the […]

The Document Foundation Blog

Ludovic Dubost Mar 13

@libreoffice The same German State is also installing XWiki through our partnership with @nextcloud Which means they can also use the XWiki/Collabora partnership. Open Source industrials working together is the way to go !

Lazy B0y Mar 13

@ldubost
oh wow, havin used xwiki many years ago i haven’t heard from it since a long time, great to see it’s still doing fine!

Ludovic Dubost Mar 13

@lazyb0y @ldubost Thanks ! It's doing more than fine and progressing fast in the last two years (2x 50% growth) with many Atlassian Confluence migrations..

Reiner Jung Mar 13

@ldubost @lazyb0y the fun thing is that working on ods files in Collabora and LibreOffice usually works very well. No comparison to working with Word and any one of these word processors.

Lazy B0y Mar 13

@prefec2
I fortunately dont have to work with MS Office, but when having to update a CV document with tables and stuff this week, it felt just as bad as I remember using MS products a long time ago...

I would say it's a very good functionality and user experience clone, but with the upside of being OpenSource so I could fix things that i dont like myself and at least dont have to pay to be tortured.
@ldubost

Katharsisdrill Mar 13

Let's just not hope that Microsoft can bribe its way back like they did in München in 2017

Carbon Carrot Mar 13

@katharsisdrill The *nix desktop has come so far, but the odds are always >0

Isarblues Mar 13

One more variation of #UnplugTrump!

@libreoffice wrote:
With the world changing around us, many governments and organisations are trying to reduce their dependency on tech giants. Here's an update on how one German federal state is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (and longer-term, Linux): https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03/13/updates-on-schleswig-holstein-moving-to-libreoffice/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

Updates on Schleswig-Holstein moving to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

Nearly a year ago, we posted about the German state of Schleswig-Holstein’s plan to move 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice. Now, Stephane Fermigier from EuroStack – which promotes European technological sovereignty and open source – has posted an update, citing an article in the German c’t Magazin. It discusses various reasons for the […]

The Document Foundation Blog

@isf @libreoffice
They could really use some more funding from government institutions that do no longer go to US companies for MS Office.
I welcome this move.

François the Prague Fella Mar 13

Since excel VBA is not relevant any longer, it is now easier than ever to switch from MS to LibreOffice.

🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmann Mar 13

@FrancoisPrague @libreoffice 'Relevant' in the same sense as Flash used to be?

European Made Mar 13

@libreoffice I'm so happy Europe starts to see the potential of Open Source!!

🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmann Mar 13

@libreoffice That's very good news! The big question will be: how will they move public administration packages towards platform agnosticism and ideally FOSS. There are some small software sheds that produce very questionable stuff (PC Wahl anyone) and who struggle even before moving to a FOSS model. Really curious and keeping fingers crossed 🤞

Ulrik Nyman ⬡Mar 13

@libreoffice Danske kommuner og regioner bør kigge på dette

@UlrikNyman @libreoffice 💯 - det kan kun gå for langsomt!

Massive W

Wait, EuroStack?
I heard that term mentioned in OpenDesk presenation at FOSDEM, but I assumed that it is more of a colloquialism. It's actual name of an actual project? Nice
Time to learn about it.

Excellent!

@libreoffice Looks like Germany is doing really good job for FOSS developement. The way to go. Thanks.

@libreoffice I feel really sorry for those who depend on Excel. I generally like/use LO, but Calc is abysmal compared to Excel.

Openhuman Mar 13

@libreoffice time to get more intuitive and mainstream

marc [sustain release] ✅Mar 14

@libreoffice Mehr @schleswigholstein wagen! 👍

Nabil-Fareed Alikhan Mar 14

@libreoffice are they chipping in for development

Die Gerichte im echten Norden Mar 16

@happykhan @libreoffice

"Improvements to open-source software commissioned by Schleswig-Holstein, such as the Accessibility Assistant in LibreOffice, are available to the general public."

Translated from German. Published in: c't 5/2025, p. 112.

Die Gerichte im echten Norden Mar 16

So it begins!

We @gerichteSH will report regularly on our experiences. Starting last Wednesday:
https://social.schleswig-holstein.de/@gerichteSH/114148472098419012

Die Gerichte im echten Norden (@gerichteSH@social.schleswig-holstein.de)

Angehängt: 1 Bild #SchleswigHolstein goes #OpenSource Softwaremonopole sind teuer und stehen dem #Datenschutz im Weg. Deshalb setzt die Verwaltung in Schleswig-Holstein zukünftig auf #OpenSourceSoftware. Seit kurzem können wir im Gericht #LibreOffice nutzen, Ende des Jahres wird es Pflicht. Der Umstieg fiel uns leicht, da wir es auch zu Hause nutzen. Und von unseren Kolleg:innen hat auch noch keine:r gemurrt. Und ihr? Habt ihr schon gewechselt? #GerichteSH #DigitalSouverän #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #OSS

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Alex🇺🇦Mar 18

@libreoffice So proud to live in that state!

ElectroNaut Apr 18

@libreoffice
Wow, when they said this might be the year of Linux, maybe they were actually right this time. Very nice to hear this!
@distrowatch