About Us
The company allotropia software GmbH provides services, consulting and products around LibreOffice and related opensource projects.
Our Mission
Founded in 2020 with 5 long-time developers of the project, its stated mission is to bring LibreOffice to shine - in as many different shape and form as necessary to serve modern needs towards office productivity software. At the same time, we're here to have a lot of fun hacking on the code!
The Name
We thought the name “allotropia” appropriate for that kind of endeavour. Its roots are the Greek allotropos (ἄλλος τρόπος), meaning the feature of some chemical elements to exist in two or more different forms - in the same physical state, but with massively different chemical attributes. Quite apropos we think, when considering the very many forms & shapes you find the same piece of opensource software (like LibreOffice) in use. You take the same elementary FLOSS ingredient, and get a multitude of different forms out of it - on the desktop, server, mobile & many more niche use-cases.
And if you let FLOSS sit in just the right environment for long enough - you get a diamond (or the even more interesting buckyball, see picture).
Team
Get to know our team of certified LibreOffice developers.
Thorsten Behrens
Managing Director, LibreOffice hacker
Samuel Mehrbrodt
LibreOffice hacker, Java expert, LOEclipse maintainer
Michael Stahl
LibreOffice hacker, Writer expert, ODF co-editor
Armin Le Grand
LibreOffice hacker, drawinglayer expert
Jan-Marek Glogowski
LibreOffice hacker, WASM wrangler, KDE/Qt expert
Gabor Kelemen
LibreOffice hacker, bug wrangler, MSO interop expert
Balázs Varga
LibreOffice hacker, Chart expert, LOWA developer
Sarper Akdemir
LibreOffice hacker, Impress expert, LOWA developer
Tibor Nagy
LibreOffice hacker, Impress and Calc expert
Stephan Bergmann
LibreOffice hacker, UNO, SDK, and c++ expert, template and clang plugin architect