# Nextcloud Office Collaborating Across FOSS Projects > [! note]- > The content of this page is generated by audio/video transcription and text transformation from the content and links of this source. Source: [https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6635-nextcloud-office-on-collaborating-across-foss-projects/](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6635-nextcloud-office-on-collaborating-across-foss-projects/) <video src="https://video.fosdem.org/2025/h2213/fosdem-2025-6635-nextcloud-office-on-collaborating-across-foss-projects.av1.webm" controls></video> ## Summary & Highlights: This session focuses on the collaboration between Nextcloud Office, Collabora, and LibreOffice to enhance open-source office solutions through integration and innovation. **Introduction to Nextcloud Office** Nextcloud Office is a key component of the Nextcloud platform, offering a free and open-source content collaboration solution. The platform integrates with Collabora Online and LibreOffice to provide advanced document editing capabilities, while maintaining a simplified user interface to fit within Nextcloud’s ecosystem. **Innovative API Integrations** The session highlights the development of REST APIs that allow for document extraction and transformation, enabling new capabilities such as filling out forms, modifying chart data, and editing presentation slides. These APIs enhance automation and integration with other open-source tools like Windmill, allowing for complex workflows in various sectors. **AI and Automation Enhancements** Nextcloud Office is integrating AI capabilities through platforms that are open and optional for users. The integration with AI tools aims to enhance document processing and user interaction, while maintaining transparency and user control. **Collaboration and Community Building** The collaboration between Nextcloud and Collabora involves regular meetings, shared code contributions, and joint feature development. This partnership exemplifies how open-source communities can work together to create impactful solutions and foster a culture of cooperation and innovation. **Challenges and Future Directions** The session acknowledges challenges in setup and connectivity, and outlines ongoing efforts to simplify these processes. Future directions include deeper integration of slide templates and exploring new use cases for document transformation, highlighting the potential for further innovation in open-source office solutions. ## Importance for an eco-social transformation The collaboration between Nextcloud Office, Collabora, and LibreOffice is significant for eco-social transformation as it promotes open-source solutions that are accessible and adaptable to various community needs. These tools can be utilized by eco-social designers to create collaborative platforms that support sustainable development practices. The integration of AI in an open and controlled manner addresses ethical concerns while enhancing productivity. Challenges include ensuring seamless integration and user-friendly setups, which require ongoing community engagement and technical refinement. ## Slides: | | | | --- | --- | | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_001.jpg\|300]] | The first slide introduces the session 'Nextcloud Office: On collaborating across FOSS projects' presented by Julius Knorr, who is the Office team lead at Nextcloud GmbH. It sets the stage for discussing how Nextcloud collaborates with other open-source projects. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_002.jpg\|300]] | The second slide provides an overview of Nextcloud as a free and open-source enterprise content collaboration platform, highlighting its various components like Nextcloud Files, Groupware, Talk, and Office. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_003.jpg\|300]] | The third slide focuses on Nextcloud Office, emphasizing its role as a collaborative platform integrated with Collabora and LibreOffice to provide a seamless office solution. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_004.jpg\|300]] | The fourth slide likely continues from the previous content, possibly elaborating on specific features or integrations of Nextcloud Office, though specific details are not provided. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_005.jpg\|300]] | The fifth slide discusses the API work for document extraction and transformation, highlighting the ability to extract document structures and elements and transform documents through content controls, chart data manipulation, and presentation slide editing. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_006.jpg\|300]] | The sixth slide describes the functionality for filling templates, allowing users to create documents by filling out forms based on pre-defined templates. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_007.jpg\|300]] | The seventh slide highlights automation capabilities in Nextcloud Office, likely focusing on how APIs and integrations can automate workflows and processes. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_008.jpg\|300]] | The eighth slide details the process of transforming slides, using a command queue to manipulate slide elements such as layout changes, text setting, and master slide insertion. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_009.jpg\|300]] | The ninth slide continues the discussion on transforming slides, further explaining the commands and processes involved in slide manipulation. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_010.jpg\|300]] | The tenth slide outlines the integration of extract/transform APIs, exposing HTTP APIs on both Collabora Online and Nextcloud to build further integrations and automation workflows. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_011.jpg\|300]] | The eleventh slide introduces the Nextcloud Assistant, which integrates AI platforms to enhance user experience and document processing. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_012.jpg\|300]] | The twelfth slide discusses the conversion API, which allows for a variety of file type conversions and is now more directly accessible to end users and automation processes. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_013.jpg\|300]] | The thirteenth slide addresses the challenges in setup and network connectivity, highlighting efforts to automate checks and provide suggestions to improve user experience. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_014.jpg\|300]] | The fourteenth slide likely continues the theme of setup checks, emphasizing the importance of ensuring smooth and error-free installation and configuration processes. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_015.jpg\|300]] | The fifteenth slide describes ongoing developments and improvements within Collabora and LibreOffice, including performance enhancements, document signing integration, and office-specific settings. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_016.jpg\|300]] | The sixteenth slide elaborates on the collaboration between Nextcloud and Collabora, detailing weekly meetings, shared code contributions, and community engagement efforts. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_017.jpg\|300]] | The seventeenth slide encourages community involvement, providing links and resources for contributing to Nextcloud and Collabora Online projects. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/Nextcloud-Office-On-collaborating-across-FOSS-proj/preview_018.jpg\|300]] | The eighteenth slide concludes the presentation with a thank you note and contact information for Julius Knorr and Nextcloud. ## 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