A hope for Open Source

Although this is tagged as an article, its basically a blog post. But not, oh well. Anyways, here I go…

I intended to go to OggCamp 2024… then 2025…. and finally, I made it. 2026, here I am.

The first talk, Collabra Online

Genuinely fun, informative, and entertaining. Collabora Online has a great speaker and advocate talking about the software and the merits of what seems to becoming a politically-charged term Digital Sovereignity, or maybe it has always been that way. Simon Phipps, the OSI Standards… person? over at Collabra Online delivered the talk which, in the space of an hour, covered everything from the difficulties of getting Microsoft Offline documents to work eith Open Office suites, the dangers of accepting walled-gardens, and the progress made in getting governments and business free of the trap of Microsoft architecture.

There was also a bit of news on the drama regarding LibreOffice, but that could be an article in of itself.

The second talk, Digital Exclusion

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Third, Kraken (Octopus Energy)

Spun-off from Octopus this year, Kraken handle physical testing of cars and batteries in order to certify them as compatible with Kraken, their internal energy market.