openDesk
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11recommend
2warn against
Nov 1, 2025first mention
Sep 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“also check out openDesk initiated by the German Government”
“projects like Germany's OpenDesk”
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“I prefer this : https://www.opendesk.eu/”
“OpenDesk has managed to do without”
“Also worth looking at:”
Caveats and dissent
“The system requirements are quite high”
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Threads where it came up
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Also written as OpenDesk. Data: opendesk.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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Mijn Bureau is the Dutch equivalent of openDesk and La Suite: https://github.com/MinBZK/mijn-bureau
“also check out openDesk initiated by the German Government”
“projects like Germany's OpenDesk”
“I prefer this : https://www.opendesk.eu/”
“OpenDesk has managed to do without”
“seems to rely on Nextcloud and Collabora Online for that”
“Also worth looking at:”
“Germany has https://www.opendesk.eu/de”
“Visio with live kit (part of lasuite) or opendesk with jitsi would be my guess.”
“and Opendesk”
“Given enough RAM it should be rather simple to deploy.”
“It seems to be just a collection of various open source components”
“Create, edit and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations with full support for all major file formats.”
“It's missing from the list of their products though :(”
So, reading the documentation in the [repo](https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/deployment/opendesk/-/blob/develop/README-EE.md) it’s immediately made clear that you should use the Enterprise Edition for production use. (Since the German state is behind this, why not focus on totally free software for production use?) But what really surprised me are statements like this in the README: ” Nextcloud Enterprise: ope
“openDesk is based on a fork of LibreOffice Online”
“to build the alternative to Office 365”
“The system requirements are quite high”
Related: "IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT" (white house, feb 2025) https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/imposing-sanctions-on-the-international-criminal-court/?utm_source=chatgpt.com Microsoft admits in French court it can't keep EU data safe from US authorities (jul 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822902
“the solution will probably be maintained for some time given it's backing by the federal government of Germany”
“does not build confidence”
“Looks like openDesk uses Collabora Online”
“Redmond out as Germany's openDesk judged a better fit”
“https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk”
“A bit convoluted but there was an openCode link at the bottom which eventually leads you to the repository:”
“https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/deployment/opendesk”
“Does anyone have any experience using it?”
“is it actually open?”
“For people looking for community edition”