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

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Collabora is best known for developing Collabora Online, a online office suite that enables collaborative editing in a browser, and Collabora Office, a desktop office productivity software suite. Both are based on LibreOffice and marketed as open-source alternatives to proprietary platforms such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. These products are developed and maintained by the company's Collabora Productivity division, which is one of the largest contributors to the LibreOffice codebase.[3][4][5]

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

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Products

Projects contributed to

Operating system and infrastructure

  • Apertis – A Debian-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.

Communication and multimedia

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

Productivity and applications

  • Monado – An open-source XR platform and OpenXR 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 various Mali GPUs.
  • vkmark – A Vulkan benchmarking suite with configurable scenes.[11]
  • Zink – An OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan via Mesa Gallium.[12]
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Participations and memberships

References

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