[kwlug-disc] Merging data into Spreadsheet?

[Ron]

Doug Moen wrote on 2026-04-05 17:49:
> Nextcloud Office includes an open source web-based spreadsheet. Which 
> I know nothing about. How well does it support collaboration? 
> https://nextcloud.com/office/

It works quite well, both with integrating the Collabora office suite 
and with the OnlyOffice suite.

That is, in my experience,  which is mostly testing with a few 
collaborators on a spreadsheet.


> Onlyoffice is a Russian thing.

There's some debate on this; whether it's from Russia or by Russian 
speakers in... I forget which country with a significant population of 
Russian speakers. Has this been determined? And, does it matter if it's 
open source? I don't know...


> Another is Euro Office, which seems to be at an early stage. It's a 
> hostile fork of Onlyoffice where they have removed the licence changes 
> to the AGPL that make it non-free, and the Russian owners are not 
> happy. So legally dubious; we'll see what happens. Sponsored by 
> NextCloud, Proton, and a bunch of other euro tech companies.
> https://github.com/Euro-Office

This looks more promising than pure OnlyOffice IMHO. With Nextcloud 
backing it, it stands a good chance of easy setup.


Looks like LibreOffice has decided to work on a network based version of 
their product, which has the Collabora folks unhappy as they're the main 
contributor to LibreOffice.

www.theregister.com

Forking frenzy ensues after launch of Euro-Office <#>

: Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF 
ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'

🔗 https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/eurooffice_forks_onlyoffice/ 
<https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/eurooffice_forks_onlyoffice/>

The Document Foundation responded by "firing" the Collabora people that 
worked there (this might be slightly inaccurate, there are articles out 
there about it).

Not looking good for either of them, really. LibreOffice has the 
recognition and distribution in repos, but no one is left to develop the 
online version. Collabora has the dev skills but they build upon 
LibreOffice.

I hope this gets settled.  Document Foundation had agreed to not release 
an online version so as to not step on Collabora's toes.
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