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by Mashimo13 hours ago |
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upvoteby buovjaga8 hours ago|
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LibreOffice release builds should offer to send a crash report. Ideally, you should then create a bug report referencing the crash report. Besides that, you can do your own build with debug symbols and get backtraces or debug the program.

At The Document Foundation we are always interested in helping deployments. It is also nice to do writeups for our blog. Let me know, if your organisation needs help: ilmari.lauhakangas@libreoffice.org

I recommend to consider our certification program: https://www.documentfoundation.org/certification-program/

I asked about the Maven artifacts and our release engineer will update them later this week.

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upvoteby deanc12 hours ago|
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I think if we're to move to away from these US products to open source ones, then governments should also provide resources or funding to develop them using the licensing fees they save. Is the Danish government contributing back to libreoffice?
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upvoteby hermanzegerman12 hours ago|
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The German State of Schleswig Holstein does

https://euro-stack.com/blog/2025/3/schleswig-holstein-open-s...

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upvoteby wolvoleo11 hours ago|
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There's a lot more than just one municipality. The French government uses a lot of open source and is actively working on la suite.. The gendarmerie has been on Linux for years. Nato is using matrix (noteworthy especially because America is of course part of that)

https://element.io/en/case-studies/nato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

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upvoteby toomuchtodo5 hours ago|
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Indeed, take what you're paying US Big Tech and direct it to domestic EU enterprises, corporate or non profit.
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upvoteby staticlibs12 hours ago|
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> sometimes libreoffice crashes and you can't figure out why > why libreoffice stopped publishing artefacts to mvn repo

I think both questions would be a perfect fit for the paid support bugtracker of LibreOffice maintainers. Hopefully paid by some hospital funds that are not spent on MS Office licenses.

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upvoteby andix11 hours ago|
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Switching from Word/Excel to LibreOffice is comparably easy. A lot of other Microsoft Products are much harder to get rid of.

I've never seen a European corporation that doesn't do user management with ActiveDirectory. Some still have it on their own Windows servers, but most browser based applications still go through Entra (Azure Cloud based AD). Just shut off their Entra/AAD and most of their software is blocked because nobody can log in.

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upvoteby dijit4 hours ago|
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Agreed, and even things like Keycloak/FreeIPA are only partial solutions.

FreeIPA in particular is a beast to maintain, it puts kubernetes-cowboys to shame.

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upvoteby flopsamjetsam3 hours ago|
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> But I don't think they will be switching away from Teams as quickly.

I'm interested to know why Teams is so sticky for the team. Are there not good replacements available? I've used it a little, but am by no means a power user.

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upvoteby wiredpancake2 hours ago|
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Because 'Teams' isn't just a simple meeting application. It's very feature rich. If you ever have to deal with the admin.teams.microsoft portal you'll know how many options and toggles it has.

Alongside this many businesses deploy 'Teams Supported' or 'Teams Enabled' devices into meeting and conference rooms. Yealink is a popular brand, they don't have baked in support for LibreMeet or whatever meeting products exist.

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