The first stable version of the open-source online office suite Euro-Office has been released. This was announced by the project's leading partners Nextcloud and Ionos.
Euro-Office aims to enable companies, authorities and other organizations to jointly create and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations and become independent of proprietary offerings such as Microsoft Office or Google Docs.
“Our main priority was to provide a version that users can actually work with. First, we cleaned up the code, implemented some security updates, and integrated Euro Office into existing solutions,” summarizes Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek on the status of the project.
Native desktop and mobile apps aren't available yet. That's the next step on the list. Full support for open standards like ODF is also a priority. "That will be at the top of the agenda for the next release," says Karlitschek.
Euro-Office is initially intended to be integrated primarily as an office module into partners' collaboration tools. In addition to Ionos and Nextcloud, Eurostack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, BTactic, Open-Xchange and Office.eu are also participating as project partners.
Ionos and Nextcloud are creating a development team for Euro-Office, according to their own statements, and the first positions have already been filled.
Anyone who wants to try out Euro-Office on a Docker basis or contribute to the project can find more information in the GitHub repository.
https://github.com/Euro-Office/DocumentServer
Commands to try it in Docker:
docker pull ghcr.io/euro-office/documentserver:latest
docker run -i -t -d -p 8080:80 --restart=always -e EXAMPLE_ENABLED=true -e JWT_SECRET=my_jwt_secret ghcr.io/euro-office/documentserver:latest
Although the press releases will range from very select to rare, I said I'd pass...because sometimes the editors hide.
