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 "Distributed real-time collaboration for Writer - a first prototype" ( 2025 )

Saturday at 12:30, 15 minutes, H.2213, H.2213, LibreOffice Thorsten Behrens , slides , video

Come to see a first prototype of a CRDT-based real-time distributed collaboration implementation - for being able to collaboratively comment on a Writer document, from a number of distributed LibreOffice instances (desktop, browser or cloud).

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  •  0.52 "Collaborative editing in a MediaWiki environment"
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Last updated: 2026-03-20

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