Igalia is a private,

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, employee-run cooperative model consultancy focused on

open source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open ...

. Based in

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, Galicia (

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), Igalia is known for its contributions and commitments to both open-source and open standards. Igalia's primary focus is on open source solutions for a large set of hardware and software platforms centering on browsers, graphics, multimedia, compilers, device drivers, virtualization, embedded Linux, and device drivers.

Active projects

Igalia is the current core maintainer of several projects, including: * Two official WebKit ports ** WebKit WPE, a WebKit port optimized for embedded devices ** WebKitGTK, the

GTK GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and propriet ...

port of the WebKit web rendering engine used in GNOME desktop applications. * GNOME Web (also known as Epiphany), the GNOME web browser *

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, a screen reader that provides access to the graphical Linux desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech and braille. * Wolvic, a web browser built for

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. Igalia is a major contributor to each of the major Web engines (

Blink Blinking is a bodily function; it is a semi-autonomic rapid closing of the eyelid. A single blink is determined by the forceful closing of the eyelid or inactivation of the levator palpebrae superioris and the activation of the palpebral portio ...

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Servo Servo may refer to: Mechanisms * Servomechanism, or servo, a device used to provide control of a desired operation through the use of feedback ** AI servo, an autofocus mode ** Electrohydraulic servo valve, an electrically operated valve that ...

and

WebKit WebKit is a browser engine developed by Apple and primarily used in its Safari web browser, as well as on the iOS and iPadOS version of any web browser. WebKit is also used by the BlackBerry Browser, PlayStation consoles beginning from the PS ...

). In 2019 they were the #2 committers to both the WebKit and Chromium codebases and in the top 10 contributors to Gecko/Servo. Igalia has helped the interoperability of some features across web engines; they implemented

CSS Grid Layout In Cascading Style Sheets, CSS grid layout or CSS grid creates complex responsive web design grid layouts more easily and consistently across browsers. Historically, there have been other methods for controlling web page layout methods, such ...

in WebKit and Blink. They are maintainers for several areas of the Chromium codebase, such as

MathML Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is a mathematical markup language, an application of XML for describing mathematical notations and capturing both its structure and content. It aims at integrating mathematical formulae into World Wide Web ...

, Ozone-Wayland and MathML in Chromium. Igalia also has significant participation in open source communities, contributing to several projects, such as

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GStreamer GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework that links together a wide variety of media processing systems to complete complex workflows. For instance, GStreamer can be used to build a system that reads files in one format, processes them, ...

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, and Wayland.

Past projects and historical involvement

Igalia was previously significantly involved in: *

Maemo Maemo is a software platform originally developed by Nokia, now developed by the community, for smartphones and Internet tablets. The platform comprises both the Maemo operating system and SDK. Maemo played a key role in Nokia's strategy to com ...

and

MeeGo MeeGo is a discontinued Linux distribution hosted by the Linux Foundation, using source code from the operating systems Moblin (produced by Intel) and Maemo (produced by Nokia). Primarily targeted at mobile devices and information appliances in ...

. Igalia developers authored

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(a framework for the access to multimedia sources like YouTube, Flickr, Jamendo, and others), and managed

LibrePlan LibrePlan is a free software web application for project management, developed by the Fundación para o Fomento da Calidade Industrial e Desenvolvemento Tecnolóxico de Galicia, dependent of the Ministry of Industry of the Xunta de Galicia. It co ...

(a project management web application),

OCRFeeder OCRFeeder is an optical character recognition suite for GNOME, which also supports virtually any command-line OCR engine, such as CuneiForm, GOCR, Ocrad and Tesseract. It converts paper documents to digital document files and can serve to make t ...

(an OCR suite for GNOME) and Skeltrack (a Free Software library for skeleton tracking from depth images).

Memberships

Igalia maintains active memberships and participation in a number of foundations and standards consortia: *

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 ...

, including the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) project. * A founder of the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative. * The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — Igalia is a member since 2013. * The Khronos Group. *

ECMA International Ecma International () is a nonprofit standards organization for information and communication systems. It acquired its current name in 1994, when the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) changed its name to reflect the organizatio ...

— Igalia is a member since 2018 where they participate in

TC39 Ecma International () is a nonprofit standards organization for information and communication systems. It acquired its current name in 1994, when the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) changed its name to reflect the organization ...

. *

WHATWG The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) is a community of people interested in evolving HTML and related technologies. The WHATWG was founded by individuals from Apple Inc., the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software, lea ...

.
GENIVI® Alliance
* The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). * The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
AGASOL
* Past member of the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.igalia.com/ Companies based in Galicia (Spain) Free software companies GNOME companies Linux companies Software companies of Spain