Collabora

Collabora Ltd
Company type	Private
Industry	Open-source software consulting
Founded	2005; 21 years ago
Headquarters	Cambridge, United Kingdom
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Collabora Online, Collabora Office, CODE

Collabora Ltd operates as a private consulting firm specializing in open-source software, with its main office located in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and an additional branch in Montreal. The company provides expertise in consulting, training, and product development for organizations utilizing open-source solutions.

The company is widely recognized for creating Collabora Online, a web-based collaborative editing platform, alongside Collabora Office, a desktop office productivity software suite. Both offerings are developed under the Collabora Productivity division and derive from LibreOffice, serving as open-source alternatives to proprietary suites such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Collabora Productivity ranks among the foremost contributors to the LibreOffice project’s codebase.

Originally centered on instant messaging, Voice over IP (VoIP), and videoconferencing technologies, Collabora has expanded its portfolio to include multimedia, web technologies, graphics optimization, extended reality (XR), automotive infotainment, and productivity applications designed for enterprise and government sectors.

Products

Collabora Office and Collabora Online – These are customized versions of LibreOffice developed by Collabora Productivity, a principal contributor to LibreOffice. According to The Document Foundation, the majority of LibreOffice’s development is driven by commercial partners like Collabora. Additionally, Collabora maintains CODE, an experimental iteration of LibreOffice Online.

Operating system and infrastructure

Apertis – A Debian-based embedded platform primarily targeting automotive applications.
Linux kernel – Collabora employs maintainers responsible for various kernel subsystems (including support for Chromebooks, I3C, and battery drivers) and actively contributes to kernel updates.
Wayland and Weston – The display server protocol and its reference compositor.

Communication and multimedia

D-Bus – An open-source system facilitating inter-process communication.
Farstream and Telepathy – VoIP and collaboration frameworks originally created by Collabora’s founders; includes the Empathy chat client.
GStreamer – A multimedia processing framework.
libnice – A GLib-based implementation of the ICE protocol.
PulseAudio and PipeWire – Audio servers for Linux; WirePlumber manages PipeWire sessions.

Productivity and applications

Monado – An open-source platform for XR and an OpenXR runtime compatible with Linux.
Pitivi – A video editing application.

GPU-related

NVK – An open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware integrated into Mesa, utilizing NVIDIA’s official open headers.
Panfrost and panthor – Open-source drivers supporting various models of the Mali GPUs.
vkmark – A benchmarking tool for Vulkan featuring configurable scenes.
Zink – An OpenGL implementation built atop the Vulkan API via the Mesa Gallium framework.

Active memberships include:
- Automotive Grade Linux since 2016
- ARM Connected Community since 2014
- Bluetooth SIG since 2014
- Cambridge Network since 2005
- Long-standing involvement with the Debian community
- Member of the COVESA since 2011
- Long-term participation in the GNOME community
- Member of the Khronos Group since 2014
- Affiliated with the Linux Foundation since 2010
- Supporter of patent non-aggression through the LOT Network
- Licensee supporting patent non-aggression via the Open Invention Network
- Recurring sponsorship of the Outreachy program
- Partner in the Renesas Alliance since 2016
- Member of the R-Car Consortium since 2016
- Participant in the RIST Forum, promoting Reliable Internet Stream Transport standards
- Collaboration with Rockchip since 2015
- Supporter of the Secure Reliable Transport protocol through the SRT Alliance
- Member of the STMicroelectronics Partner Program

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