At the recent Open Source Conference 2025 in Luxembourg there were two talks about LibreOffice.
The first was Lessons learned from 13 years at The Document Foundation and LibreOffice, where Florian Effenberger, Executive Director of the foundation, talks about the legal setup of The Document Foundation and how its statutes enshrine values and ideals like openness, transparency and meritocracy.
Then there was Open Innovation and Open Source in Schleswig-Holstein – Practice for Europe, where Sven Thomsen, CIO of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein (which is moving to LibreOffice), outlined the state’s pioneering path toward digital sovereignty through Open Source and Open Innovation. The talk highlighted the risks of dependency on proprietary software—including lack of transparency, inflated costs, and reduced security.
