Collabora

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Collabora
Private limited company
Industry Software Consulting, Software Products, Open Source
Founded July 2005 (2005-07)
Founder Robert McQueen, Philippe Kalaf and Robert Taylor
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Philippe Kalaf, Michael Meeks, Guy Lunardi
Products Telepathy Communications framework, GStreamer, Webkit, Blink, DLNA, LibreOffice, Wayland, PulseAudio
Services Open source consultancy and engineering
Number of employees
 84[1]
Website www.collabora.com

Collabora is a global private company founded by Robert McQueen, Philippe Kalaf and Robert Taylor based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with offices in Cambridge and Montreal. Collabora's mission is to accelerate the adoption of open source technologies, methodologies and philosophy.[2] It does this by providing consultancy to companies who are deploying open source technologies in their products, by providing its own open source based products and through knowledge sharing activities such as training.[3]

Collabora's initial focus was instant messaging (IM), Voice over IP (VoIP) and videoconferencing technologies, but the company has since expanded its offering to include general multimedia, mobile web technologies, collaboration infrastructure, automotive infotainment platforms, graphics optimization, multimedia interoperability & productivity software. It is one of the main developers of LibreOffice.[4][5][6]

Collabora's customers include many large IT corporations such as Nokia, Samsung, Intel, Texas Instruments, Google and the Crown Commercial Service.[7][8]

Projects sponsored or founded by Collabora

  • LibreOffice: Collabora Productivity sells support and development services on the office suite. The former SUSE development team joined Collabora in September 2013.[9][10]
The company announced a collaboration with IceWarp to work on LibreOffice Online.[11][12][13]
On 15 December 2015, the company announced partnership with ownCloud and release of CODE, a distribution of LibreOffice Online and ownCloud Server.[14][15]
Branded versions of LibreOffice include LibreOffice-From-Collabora, Collabora Office and Collabora GovOffice.
  • GStreamer, a multimedia framework.
  • D-Bus, a free and open-source inter-process communication (IPC) system.
  • PulseAudio, a sound system for POSIX OSes used as the default audio server on most GNU/Linux open source distributions.
  • Wayland and Weston (display server protocols)
  • Linux kernel Bluetooth Subsystem: Collabora employs Gustavo Padovan, the Linux kernel Bluetooth subsystem maintainer[16][17] who also contributes to BlueZ[18]
  • Farstream and Telepathy, a VoIP and collaboration framework created by Collabora founders. Includes the Empathy chat client.
  • Pitivi and GES, a video editor for the free software desktop. Between 2008 and 2009, Collabora's Multimedia division worked on improving Pitivi.[19] The GES library was initially created by Collabora in 2011 to provide video editing capabilities to the MeeGo platform.[20]
  • Maynard, a Weston shell

See also

References

  1. ↑ Collabora People. People.collabora.com. Retrieved on 2013-07-17.
  2. ↑ About us
  3. ↑ https://www.collabora.com/services/training/
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  7. ↑ About us. Collabora. Retrieved on 2013-07-17.
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  10. ↑ Collabora's LibreOffice Website
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  16. ↑ https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS
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  18. ↑ http://www.ohloh.net/p/bluez/contributors?query=&sort=commits
  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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