In this 10th episode, our host Ingo talked with Michael Meeks, the enthusiastic Open Source developer and General Manager of Collabora Productivity, leading Collabora Online and Office products, supporting customers, and consulting on development alongside his team.
He serves as a Director of The Document Foundation, and on the LibreOffice Engineering Steering Committee; he has contributed to both ODF and OOXML standardization. Prior to Collabora, he was a Novell/SUSE Distinguished Engineer working on various pieces of Free Software infrastructure across the Linuxstack to MeeGo, GNOME, CORBA, Nautilus, Evolution, and Open Source accessibility, among others.
Micheal talked about the history of Collabora Online, the exciting growth, their mission, and how they became part of the Nextcloud story as an office suite solution & many other insightful but also fun topics.
Find the feed on our podcast page and listen to the full interview! If you have not heard the previous episodes, check them there as well.
Andy Scherzinger, VP of Engineering at Nextcloud, talks about the goal of growing the Nextcloud App Store from 600 to 6,000 apps, explains when to build an ExApp instead of a classic PHP app, how abandoned apps can find new maintainers, and why AI coding agents can help keep older apps alive but don't replace code review and testing.
Anna Larch, Developer Relations at Nextcloud, talks about its shift toward more structured community management, shares her views on the growing need for digital sovereignty, Nextcloud's new ISV Partner Program, and why the Nextcloud Community Awards favor small and niche contributors instead of those with the biggest audiences.
Johanna Pirker is a professor of computer science at TU Munich and TU Graz, founder of the Game Lab Graz, and a member of the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI. She works at the intersection of AI, games, virtual and augmented reality, and human-computer interaction. We tap into her perspective on where gaming meets learning, learning meets AI, and where open source tools foster innovation in her fields.
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