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Collabora takes first place at ICME 2025 Grand Challenge

June 19, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Building on our Open Source strengths in AI and data-driven solutions, Collabora's ML team, led by Marcus Edel, Vineet Suryan, & Aaron Boxer, has taken first place in Track 3 of the ICME 2025 Grand Challenge on Video Super-Resolution for Video Conferencing.

Collabora takes first place at ICME 2025 Grand Challenge

Meet Boardswarm, a new Open Source tool for board management and distributed development

June 17, 2025 by Martyn Welch  |   News & Events

Improving access, flexibility, and CI integration for development boards, making it easier for developers to work with embedded hardware, no matter where they are.

Meet Boardswarm, a new Open Source tool for board management and distributed development

Constructor acquires, destructor releases

June 09, 2025 by Gustavo Noronha  |   Blog

In this final article based on Matt Godbolt's talk on making APIs easy to use and hard to misuse, I will discuss locking, an area where C++ has produced some interesting ideas, most notably something called RAII — Resource Acquisition Is Initialization.

Constructor acquires, destructor releases

Industry week in focus: ISC, AWE & InfoComm take the stage

June 02, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Next week Collabora will be covering a lot of ground, attending 3 separate events in 3 different time zones: ISC High Performance, Augmented World Expo, and InfoComm! Catch up with us at one of these events.

Industry week in focus: ISC, AWE & InfoComm take the stage

Breaking language barriers 2.0: Moving closer towards fully reliable, production-ready Hindi ASR

May 29, 2025 by Vineet Suryan  |   News & Events

After cleaning up and expanding Whisper-Hindi to 3,000 hours, we now have explicit timestamp prediction, faster I/O, and fine-tuned models across all sizes, bringing us even closer to fully reliable, production-ready Hindi ASR.

Breaking language barriers 2.0: Moving closer towards fully reliable, production-ready Hindi ASR

Kernel 6.15: Divide and conquer

May 27, 2025 by Detlev Casanova  |   News & Events

The latest Linux kernel brings expanded hardware support for MediaTek and Rockchip, enhanced graphics drivers, and more. Collabora played a key role in this release, with no less than 20 authored contributors!

Kernel 6.15: Divide and conquer

PanVK reaches Vulkan 1.2 conformance on Mali-G610

May 26, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund  |   News & Events

Just about 6 weeks after we announced Vulkan 1.1 conformance for PanVK on G610 GPUs, Vulkan 1.2 is now also checked off the list!

PanVK reaches Vulkan 1.2 conformance on Mali-G610

Monado v25.0.0: Driving the future of cross-platform Open Source XR

May 22, 2025 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Monado's first stable release of 2025 is here. From enhanced Android support and driver updates to improved runtime stability and tooling, Collabora's XR team delivered a wide array of improvements for the cross-platform, open source OpenXR runtime.

Monado v25.0.0: Driving the future of cross-platform Open Source XR

What if C++ had decades to learn?

May 21, 2025 by Gustavo Noronha  |   Blog

In this second article of a three-part series, I look at how Matt Godbolt uses modern C++ features to try to protect against misusing an API that deals with destructive state transition based on a talk he gave on making code easy to use and hard to misuse.

What if C++ had decades to learn?

Unleashing gst-python-ml: Python-powered ML analytics for GStreamer pipelines

May 12, 2025 by Aaron Boxer  |   Blog

Powerful video analytics pipelines are easy to make when you're well-equipped. Combining GStreamer and Machine Learning frameworks are the perfect duo to run complex models across multiple streams.

Unleashing gst-python-ml: Python-powered ML analytics for GStreamer pipelines

Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust (by showing me C++)

May 06, 2025 by Gustavo Noronha  |   Blog

Gustavo Noronha helps break down C++ and shows how that knowledge can open up new possibilities with Rust.

Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust (by showing me C++)

Debuting at XR EXPO 2025

May 01, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Join us in Stuttgart, Germany for XR EXPO 2025! This two-day event will be the meeting place for the XR community to exchange ideas and explore the latest trends.

Debuting at XR EXPO 2025

Setting up QEMU-KVM for kernel development

January 16, 2017 by Frédéric Dalleau  |   Blog

A look at the fundamentals of building and booting a kernel in QEMU using debootstrap, so you have the needed infrastructure to test your kernel changes in QEMU.

Setting up QEMU-KVM for kernel development

Collabora Contributions to Linux Kernel 4.9

December 14, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan  |   Blog

Linux Kernel 4.9 was released this week and once more Collabora developers took part on the kernel development cycle. This time we contributed 36 patches by 11 different developers, our highest number of single contributors in a kernel release ever. Remember…

Collabora Contributions to Linux Kernel 4.9

A tale of cylinders and shadows

November 22, 2016 by Gustavo Noronha  |   Blog

Our ongoing work on improving WebKitGTK+ performance brought us to take a closer look as to why GTK+ was experiencing significant speed issues when used with Wayland and HiDPI screens, revealing the root cause to be within the lower level toolkit.

A tale of cylinders and shadows

How continuous integration can help you keep pace with the Linux kernel

November 08, 2016 by Tomeu Vizoso  |   Blog

Almost all of Collabora's customers use the Linux kernel on their products. Often they will use the exact code as delivered by the SBC vendors and we'll work with them in other parts of their software stack. But it's becoming increasingly common for our…

How continuous integration can help you keep pace with the Linux kernel

Collabora contributions to GStreamer 1.10 - Part 2

November 03, 2016 by Olivier Crête  |   Blog

In the first part of my review of Collabora's participation in GStreamer 1.10, I discussed the work done by Guillaume & Nicolas around leak tracing, acoustic echo cancellation, Wayland, V4L, etc. Today, I'll go over the contributions from the rest of…

Collabora contributions to GStreamer 1.10 - Part 2

Collabora contributions to GStreamer 1.10

November 02, 2016 by Olivier Crête  |   Blog

Yesterday, we celebrated the release of GStreamer 1.10, the culmination of 7 months of very hard work from the GStreamer community. Collabora's multimedia team is extremely proud of our contributions to this new major feature release.

Collabora contributions to GStreamer 1.10

Open Build Service in Debian - Part 2

October 25, 2016 by Héctor Orón Martínez  |   Blog

In the previous post, I gave an overview of the Open Build Service software architecture. In this second part, a tutorial on setting up a package build with OBS from Debian packages is presented.

Open Build Service in Debian - Part 2

Open Build Service in Debian - Part 1

October 24, 2016 by Héctor Orón Martínez  |   Blog

openSUSE distributions’ build system is based on a generic framework named Open Build Service (OBS), I have been using these tools in my work environment, and I have to say, as Debian developer, that it is a great tool. In this blog post I plan for you…

Open Build Service in Debian - Part 1

Mainline Explicit Fencing - Part 2

October 18, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan  |   Blog

In the first part we covered the main concepts behind Explicit Synchronization for the Linux Kernel. Now in the second part of the series we are going to look to the Android Sync Framework, the first (out-of-tree) Explicit Fencing implementation for the…

Mainline Explicit Fencing - Part 2

Making Viewer UIs for Pitivi

October 13, 2016 by Lubosz Sarnecki  |   Blog

Being someone who has already experimented with two transformation box approaches for Pitivi in the past, maintainers thought I might be the right person to do a modern one. Creating a user interface for a video transformation requires three things: the…

Making Viewer UIs for Pitivi

Web Engines Hackfest 2016

October 06, 2016 by Gustavo Noronha  |   Blog

I had a great time last week and the Web Engines Hackfest! It was the 7th web hackfest hosted by Igalia and the 7th hackfest I attended. I’m almost a local Galician already. Brazilian Portuguese being so close to Galician certainly helps! Collabora co-sponsored…

Web Engines Hackfest 2016

Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.8

October 03, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan  |   Blog

Linux Kernel 4.8 is out and once more Collabora engineers did a significant contribution to the Kernel. For this latest release, Collabora provided 101 patches from 8 engineers, our biggest contribution to date in single kernel release!

Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.8

Upcoming events: VR, NAB & Khronos

April 18, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Collaborans are once again hitting the road and will be attending three separate events over the next new two weeks, in London, Las Vegas and Amsterdam

Upcoming events: VR, NAB & Khronos

Release: libnice 0.1.14

April 03, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Today, Olivier Crête, libnice maintainer and Collabora Multimedia Lead, announced the availability of libnice 0.1.14, the latest release of the NAT traversal library implementing the RFC for Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE).

Release: libnice 0.1.14

Collabora in Linux Format

March 22, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Check out the April issue (#222) of Linux Format magazine for our new monthly column on all things Open Source, including graphics, multimedia and more!

Collabora in Linux Format

Two weeks, four events!

March 07, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Over the next two weeks, Collaborans will be present at four different events across the globe. If you plan on attending at any of these conferences, please reach out and say hello!

Two weeks, four events!

Embedded Linux Conference 2017

February 21, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Starting today, and for the next few days, Collaborans will be taking part in this year's Embedded Linux Conference North America, the "premier vendor-neutral technical conference for companies and developers using Linux in embedded products".

Embedded Linux Conference 2017

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.10

February 20, 2017 by Gustavo Padovan  |   News and Events

Linux Kernel 4.10 is out, and this time Collabora contributed a total of 39 patches by 10 different developers.

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.10

Hello Amsterdam!

February 08, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

On February 8 & 9, Collabora will be attending Integrated Systems Europe 2017, the world's largest tradeshow dedicated to professional AV and electronic systems integration, taking place at the Amsterdam RAI.

Hello Amsterdam!

Collabora at FOSDEM 2017

January 31, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

We're headed to Brussels, Belgium for FOSDEM 2017, the two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software.

Collabora at FOSDEM 2017

GStreamer meets HotDoc

November 29, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Some exciting news today as GStreamer launches its redesigned documentation site, complete with dynamic navigation, search function and new tutorials. This new iteration is powered by HotDoc, a tool created by Collabora's Mathieu Duponchelle!

GStreamer meets HotDoc

Linux Plumbers Conference 2016

October 26, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Collabora is proud to be once again sponsoring the annual Linux Plumbers Conference, the developer conference that brings together the top developers working on the “plumbing” of Linux: kernel subsystems, core libraries, windowing systems, etc.

Linux Plumbers Conference 2016

GStreamer Conference 2016

October 07, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Collabora is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of this year's GStreamer Conference, taking place at the Betahaus in Berlin, Germany on 10-11 October 2016. Come say hello, or catch one of the four presentations given by Collaborans during the conference!

GStreamer Conference 2016

Upcoming events - Fall 2016

September 19, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

This fall, we're thrilled to be sponsoring not one, but five great conferences!

Upcoming events - Fall 2016

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