Collabora is a global

private company A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is ...

headquartered in

Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge beca ...

, with offices in Cambridge and

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-pe ...

. It provides

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

consultancy, training and products to companies. Collabora's initial focus was

instant messaging Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing real-time text transmission over the Internet or another computer network. Messages are typically transmitted between two or more parties, when each user inputs text and trigg ...

(IM),

Voice over IP Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The terms Internet ...

(VoIP) and

videoconferencing Videotelephony, also known as videoconferencing and video teleconferencing, is the two-way or multipoint reception and transmission of audio signal, audio and video signals by people in different locations for Real-time, real time communication. ...

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 Productivity software (also called personal productivity software or office productivity software) is application software used for producing information (such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, digital paintings, ...

. Collabora's department Collabora Productivity is one of the main developers of

LibreOffice LibreOffice () is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF). It was forked in 2010 from OpenOffice.org, an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice. The LibreOffice suite cons ...

. In 2015, the

Crown Commercial Service The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is an executive agency and trading fund of the Cabinet Office of the UK Government. The CCS is responsible for managing the procurement of common goods and services, increasing savings for the taxpayer by cent ...

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

Projects sponsored or founded by Collabora

: 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 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 Collabora Online is an open source online office suite that can be integrated with any web application, it is developed by Collabora Productivity, a division of Collabora. Collabora Online has LibreOffice at its core and allows for collaborati ...

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,

and Collabora GovOffice. :Collabora Online is shipped with NextCloud Server. *

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, ...

, 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 PulseAudio is a network-capable sound server program distributed via the freedesktop.org project. It runs mainly on Linux, various BSD distributions such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD, macOS, as well as Illumos distributions and the Solaris operatin ...

, a sound system for POSIX OSes used as the default audio server on most

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which in ...

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.

Chromebook A Chromebook (sometimes stylized in lowercase as chromebook) is a laptop or tablet running the Linux-based ChromeOS as its operating system. Initially designed to heavily rely on web applications for tasks using the Google Chrome browser, Chromeb ...

s, 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 ...

, a VoIP and collaboration framework created by Collabora founders. Includes the Empathy chat client. *

Pitivi Pitivi (originally spelled PiTiVi) is a free and open-source non-linear video editor for Linux, developed by various contributors from free software community and the GNOME project, with support also available from Collabora. Pitivi is designed ...

, 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 Vulkan is a low- overhead, cross-platform API, open standard for 3D graphics and computing. Vulkan targets high-performance real-time 3D graphics applications, such as video games and interactive media. Vulkan is intended to offer higher perfo ...

via Mesa Gallium *Monado, A free and open source XR ( VR/ AR/ MR) platform and OpenXR Runtime for

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. Addit ...

- 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 The Khronos Group, Inc. is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of 170 organizations developing, publishing and maintaining royalty-free interoperability standards for 3D graphics, virtual reality, augmented reality, parallel computatio ...

- 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 Rockchip (Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Fuzhou, Fujian province. Rockchip has been providing SoC products for tablets & PCs, streaming media TV boxes, AI audio & vision, IoT hardware s ...

- Collabora has been working with Rockchip since 2015. *

Automotive Grade Linux Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is an open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation that is building an open operating system and framework for automotive applications. AGL was launched in 2012 with founding members including Jaguar Land Rover, ...

- 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 Deb ...

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

Outreachy Outreachy (previously the Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women) is a program that organizes three-month paid internships with free and open-source software projects for people who are typically underrepresented in those project ...

- 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 character ...

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