Collabora
Encyclopedia
Collabora Ltd. is a private company founded by Robert McQueen, Robert Taylor and Philippe Kalaf based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with offices in Cambridge, Montreal
and Barcelona
. Collabora's mission is to make Open Source the de-facto standard in the industry. It does this by providing consultancy for companies who are interested in using Open Source technologies. The initial focus of Collabora was Instant Messaging
(IM), Voice over IP
(VoIP) and videoconferencing
technologies, but the company has since expanded its focus to include general multimedia, mobile web technologies, collaboration infrastructure and multimedia interoperability. Collabora's customers include the OLPC, Nokia
and Truphone
.
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
and Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
. Collabora's mission is to make Open Source the de-facto standard in the industry. It does this by providing consultancy for companies who are interested in using Open Source technologies. The initial focus of Collabora was Instant Messaging
Instant messaging
Instant Messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet...
(IM), Voice over IP
Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol networks, such as the Internet...
(VoIP) and videoconferencing
Videoconferencing
Videoconferencing is the conduct of a videoconference by a set of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously...
technologies, but the company has since expanded its focus to include general multimedia, mobile web technologies, collaboration infrastructure and multimedia interoperability. Collabora's customers include the OLPC, Nokia
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
and Truphone
Truphone
Tru is a mobile network that operates internationally. It has headquarters in London, and offices in the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal....
.
Projects sponsored or founded by Collabora
- Farstream and Telepathy - a VoIP and collaboration framework created by Collabora founders. Includes the Empathy chat client.
- GStreamerGStreamerGStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing...
- a multimedia framework. Collabora employs Wim TaymansWim TaymansWim Taymans is a software developer and Belgian national based in Barcelona, Spain. Taymans started his career in multimedia development on the Commodore 64 writing various games and demos. He was known in the Commodore 64 coding community under the nickname The Wim...
, the GStreamer maintainer. - PiTiViPiTiViPiTiVi is a open source non-linear video editor developed by Collabora and contributors from the worldwide community. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. PiTiVi is designed to be intuitive video editing software that integrates well in the GNOME desktop...
, a non linear video editor for the Free SoftwareFree softwareFree software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
desktop. PiTiVi founder and maintainer Edward Hervey works for Collabora.