Collabora

Collabora

Type	Ltd. (corporation)
Industry	Software Consulting
Founded	July, 2005
Founder(s)	Robert McQueen, Robert Taylor and Philippe Kalaf
Headquarters	Kett House, Station Road, CB1 2JH Cambridge - United Kingdom
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Robert McQueen, Philippe Kalaf, Wim Taymans, Christian Schaller
Products	Telepathy Communications framework, GStreamer Multimedia Framework, Webkit, OpenMax, DLNA technologies
Services	Open source consultancy and engineering
Employees	84[1]
Website	http://www.collabora.com

Collabora Ltd. is a private company founded by Robert McQueen, Robert Taylor and Philippe Kalaf^[2] 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^[3]. Collabora's customers include the OLPC, Nokia and Truphone^[4].

Projects sponsored or founded by Collabora

• Farstream and Telepathy - a VoIP and collaboration framework created by Collabora founders. Includes the Empathy chat client.
• GStreamer - a multimedia framework. Collabora employs Wim Taymans, the GStreamer maintainer.
• PiTiVi, a non linear video editor for the Free Software desktop. PiTiVi founder and maintainer Edward Hervey works for Collabora.

References

1. ^ http://people.collabora.com/
2. ^ http://www.collabora.com/about/who-we-are
3. ^ http://www.collabora.co.uk/press/2007/10/collabora-expands-with-new-multimedia-division.html
4. ^ http://www.collabora.co.uk/about/

External links

• Collabora site
• GStreamer
• Telepathy
• Empathy