Collabora Ltd

Company type	Private limited company
Industry	Software Consulting, Software Products, Open Source
Founded	July 2005 (2005-07)
Founder	Robert McQueen and Robert Taylor[1]
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Philippe Kalaf,Michael Meeks, Guy Lunardi
Products	Telepathy Communications framework,GStreamer,LibreOffice,Collabora Online
Services	Open source consultancy and engineering
Number of employees	>100
Website	collabora.com

Collabora Ltd is a privateopen-source software consulting company headquartered inCambridge, United Kingdom, with an additional office inMontreal. It provides consulting, training, and product development services to organizations using open-source technologies.^[2]

Collabora is best known for developingCollabora Online, anonline office suite that enables collaborative editing in a browser, and Collabora Office, a desktop officeproductivity software suite. Both are based onLibreOffice and marketed asopen-source alternatives to proprietary platforms such asMicrosoft 365 andGoogle Workspace. These products are developed and maintained by the company'sCollabora Productivity division, which is one of the largest contributors to the LibreOffice codebase.^[3][4][5]

Originally focused oninstant messaging,Voice over IP (VoIP), andvideoconferencing, Collabora has since expanded into areas including multimedia, web technologies, graphics optimization, extended reality (XR),automotive infotainment, andproductivity software for enterprise and government use.^[6][7]

• Collabora Office andCollabora Online – Branded versions ofLibreOffice developed by Collabora Productivity, a major contributor to LibreOffice.The Document Foundation states most LibreOffice development is done by commercial partners like Collabora. Collabora also maintains CODE, a testbed version of LibreOffice Online.

• Apertis – ADebian-based infrastructure for embedded systems, mainly in automotive.
• Linux kernel – Collabora employs several kernel subsystem maintainers (e.g.,Chromebooks,I3C, battery drivers) and regularly contributes to kernel releases.
• Wayland and Weston – A display server protocol and reference compositor.

• D-Bus – An open-source inter-process communication (IPC) system.
• Farstream andTelepathy – VoIP and collaboration frameworks created by Collabora founders, including the Empathy chat client.
• GStreamer – A multimedia framework.
• libnice – A GLib-based implementation of theICE protocol.
• PulseAudio andPipeWire – Sound servers for Linux; WirePlumber manages PipeWire sessions.

• Monado – An open-sourceXR platform andOpenXR runtime for Linux.^[8]
• Pitivi – A video editor.^[9]

• NVK – An open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, using NVIDIA’s official open headers.^[10]
• Panfrost and panthor – Open-source drivers for variousMali GPUs.
• vkmark – A Vulkan benchmarking suite with configurable scenes.^[11]
• Zink – AnOpenGL implementation on top ofVulkan viaMesa Gallium.^[12]

• Automotive Grade Linux – Member since 2016.
• ARM Connected Community – Member since 2014.
• Bluetooth SIG – Member since 2014.
• Cambridge Network – Member since 2005.
• Debian – Long-time community member.
• COVESA – Member since 2011.
• GNOME – Long-time community member.
• Khronos Group – Member since 2014.
• Linux Foundation – Member since 2010.
• LOT Network – Member supporting patent non-aggression.
• Open Invention Network – Licensee supporting patent non-aggression.
• Outreachy – Recurring sponsor.
• Renesas Alliance Partner since 2016.
• R-Car Consortium – Member since 2016.
• RIST Forum – Member promotingReliable Internet Stream Transport specifications.
• Rockchip – Collaborating since 2015.
• SRT Alliance – Member promoting theSecure Reliable Transport open-source protocol.
• STMicroelectronics Partner Program – Member.

• Official website

• Collabora
• 2005 establishments in England
• British companies established in 2005
• Software companies based in Cambridge
• Free software companies
• GNOME companies
• Information technology consulting firms of the United Kingdom
• International information technology consulting firms
• LibreOffice
• Linux companies
• Software companies established in 2005
• Virtual reality organizations
• Spatial computing

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