[kwlug-disc] Merging data into Spreadsheet?

[Doug Moen]

Thanks for mentioning Collabora.

Looks like Collabora Office (the new fork of LibreOffice) is already on flathub:
https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.collaboraoffice.Office

Collabora Office is 429MiB, LibreOffice is 311MiB (on flathub).
The difference is that Collabora rips out the Java UI and replaces it with Javascript, sharing code with Collabora Online. Simplified UI with fewer settings, more modern UX. Maybe I'll try this out.

And Collabora Online is the open source web based version of Collabora Office.
https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online

Doug.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2026, at 3:13 AM, Ron wrote:
> 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.
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> That is, in my experience,  which is mostly testing with a few collaborators on a spreadsheet.
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>> 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...
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> www.theregister.com
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> Forking frenzy ensues after launch of Euro-Office
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> : Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'
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> 🔗 https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/eurooffice_forks_onlyoffice/
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> The Document Foundation responded by "firing" the Collabora people that worked there (this might be slightly inaccurate, there are articles out there about it).
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> 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.
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> 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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