Collabora is a global private company headquartered in

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, with offices in Cambridge and Montreal. It provides

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consultancy, training and products to companies. 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. Collabora's department Collabora Productivity is one of the main developers of LibreOffice. In 2015, the

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announced the introduction of Collabora GovOffice and Collabora CloudSuite in all non-profit making government organisations.

Projects sponsored or founded by Collabora

* LibreOffice: Collabora Productivity sells support and development services on the office suite. The former LibreOffice development team of

SUSE SUSE ( , ) is a German-based multinational open-source software company that develops and sells Linux products to business customers. Founded in 1992, it was the first company to market Linux for enterprise. It is the developer of SUSE Linux Ent ...

joined Collabora in September 2013. :The company announced a collaboration with

IceWarp IceWarp, Inc. is a software company located in Prague, Czech Republic. It develops IceWarp Mail Server, an email, messaging and collaboration service for small, medium and enterprise level businesses. IceWarp has offices in the United States, Germ ...

to work on LibreOffice Online. :On 15 December 2015, the company announced partnership with ownCloud and release of ''CODE'' (Collabora Online Development Edition), a distribution of LibreOffice Online and ownCloud Server. :On 2 June 2016, the company released Collabora Online 1.0 "Engine", which the company calls the first production grade version of Collabora Online. :On 2 November 2016, the company released CODE 2.0 which includes "the latest and most requested feature from customers: collaborative editing." :Branded versions of LibreOffice include LibreOffice-From-Collabora, Collabora Office, Collabora Online and Collabora GovOffice. :Collabora Online is shipped with NextCloud Server. * GStreamer, a multimedia framework. *

D-Bus In computing, D-Bus (short for "Desktop Bus") is a message-oriented middleware mechanism that allows communication between multiple processes running concurrently on the same machine. D-Bus was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project, ...

, 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 Linux open source distributions. * Wayland and Weston (display server protocols) *

Linux kernel The Linux kernel is a free and open-source, monolithic, modular, multitasking, Unix-like operating system kernel. It was originally authored in 1991 by Linus Torvalds for his i386-based PC, and it was soon adopted as the kernel for the GNU ope ...

Collabora employs multiple kernel subsystem maintainers (e.g. Chromebooks, I3C, battery drivers) and actively contributed to every release in the last few years. *

Farstream Farstream (previously known as Farsight) is an audio/video conferencing framework based on GStreamer. The project provides audio/video conferencing for as many instant messengers as possible through a modular design. Telepathy and Farsight consti ...

and

Telepathy Telepathy () is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was first coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W ...

, a VoIP and collaboration framework created by Collabora founders. Includes the Empathy chat client. * Pitivi, a video editor *vkmark, an extensible Vulkan benchmarking suite with targeted, configurable scenes *Zink, an

OpenGL OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardwa ...

implementation on top of Vulkan via Mesa Gallium *Monado, A free and open source XR ( VR/ AR/ MR) platform and OpenXR Runtime for Linux

Participations and memberships

Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation (LF) is a non-profit technology consortium founded in 2000 as a merger between Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group to standardize Linux, support its growth, and promote its commercial adoption. Additi ...

- Collabora is a Silver member of the Linux Foundation since 2010. *

GENIVI Alliance GENIVI Alliance was rebranded as the Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance (COVESA) in October 2021 and operates under that name. COVESA is a non-profit automotive industry alliance that develops reference approaches for integrating operating systems ...

- Collabora is a member of the GENIVI Alliance since 2011. * Khronos Group - Collabora is a Contributor member of the Khronos Group since 2014. *

Bluetooth SIG The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) is the standards organization that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers. The SIG is a not-for-profit ...

- Collabora is an Adopter member of the Bluetooth SIG since 2014. * ARM Connected - Collabora is a member of the ARM Connected Community since 2014. * Rockchip - Collabora has been working with Rockchip since 2015. * Automotive Grade Linux - Collabora is a member of Automotive Grade Linux since 2016. * R-Car Consortium - Collabora is a member of the Renesas R-Car Consortium since 2016. * Renesas Alliance Partner - Collabora is a member of the Renesas Alliance Partners since 2016. * Cambridge Network - Since its founding in 2005, Collabora has been a member of the Cambridge Network. *

Debian Debian (), also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of D ...

- Collabora is a long-time member of the Debian community. * Outreachy - Collabora has been a recurring sponsor of Outreachy for years. *

GNOME A gnome is a mythological creature and diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature. Its characte ...

- Collabora is a long-time member of the GNOME community. *

LOT Network The LOT (License on Transfer) Network is a nonprofit organization that was formed to combat patent assertion entities (PAEs), also known as patent trolls, by cross-licensing patents that fall into the hands of PAEs. Background LOT started as a ...

- Collabora is a member of LOT Network in support of patent non-aggression. * Open Innovation Network - Collabora is an OIN licensee in support of patent non-aggression

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.collabora.com/ 2005 establishments in the United Kingdom Companies based in Cambridge Companies established in 2005 GNOME companies Information technology consulting firms of the United Kingdom International information technology consulting firms LibreOffice Linux companies Free software companies