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Open Source in Prague: A week of talks, hands-on demos, and community!

October 02, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Next week we'll be in Prague for a packed Open Source week! We’ll speak at the Linux Plumbers Conference and GStreamer Conference, and present two demos at the ELC Technical Showcase.

Open Source in Prague: A week of talks, hands-on demos, and community!

AMD Embedded Computing Summit 2026 in Frankfurt

September 29, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

We’ll be in Frankfurt this Thursday for the AMD Embedded Computing Summit! See a live demo of our AI Magic Mirror for a touchless, real-time experience.

AMD Embedded Computing Summit 2026 in Frankfurt

Panfrost, Kraid, Tyr, and more at XDC 2026

September 23, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

The annual X.Org Developer's Conference returns to Toronto September 28-30, and as a Gold Sponsor, Collabora's graphics team will present six talks and a workshop spanning Vulkan and Open Source GPU drivers.

Panfrost, Kraid, Tyr, and more at XDC 2026

Decoding with Rockchip at Kernel Recipes 2026

September 17, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Next week we'll be in Paris for Kernel Recipes! We’re pleased to sponsor this gathering of the kernel community and contribute a talk on upstream H.264 and HEVC decoding for Rockchip RK3588/RK3576.

Decoding with Rockchip at Kernel Recipes 2026

Enabling responsive AI at SIDO 2026

September 15, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Visit us at the STMicroelectronics booth at SIDO to see how the STM32MP2 platform enables responsive edge-AI applications for industrial use cases.

Enabling responsive AI at SIDO 2026

Re-engineering YouTube for the living room: Bringing Google's Chrobalt to the RDK

September 11, 2026 by Santosh Mahto  |   News & Events

Working closely with Google, we built the first RDK-based Chrobalt reference platform for third-party devices, enabling Chromium-based YouTube support, certification, and automation on embedded TVs and set-top boxes.

Re-engineering YouTube for the living room: Bringing Google's Chrobalt to the RDK

Mesa on Android: How we brought Turnip, SkiaVK, and Cuttlefish to CI

September 10, 2026 by Valentine Burley  |   News & Events

Turnip is the first Mesa driver to achieve official Vulkan conformance on Android, with stronger Android integration, shared Vulkan runtime improvements, and real-device CI testing on Qualcomm Adreno hardware.

Mesa on Android: How we brought Turnip, SkiaVK, and Cuttlefish to CI

Building GPU Drivers in Rust: Tyr at RustConf 2026

September 08, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Join us in Montreal for the 10th edition of RustConf! Catch our talk on Tyr, the new Rust kernel driver for Arm Mali GPUs.

Building GPU Drivers in Rust: Tyr at RustConf 2026

From AI video analytics to XR streaming at IBC 2026

September 08, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora is heading to Amsterdam! Join us at Booth A63 in Hall 14 to see GStreamer Analytics with machine learning, standalone XR remote rendering, and our MediaTek Genio-powered Magic Mirror for virtual clothing swaps.

From AI video analytics to XR streaming at IBC 2026

Building Tyr in Rust, part 3: Managing GPU memory

August 26, 2026 by Daniel Almeida  |   Blog

Tyr’s latest Rust GPU kernel driver work puts GPU memory management in place, from VM binding and GPUVM to GEM-backed buffers and firmware boot, moving key pieces upstream before tackling synchronization next.

Building Tyr in Rust, part 3: Managing GPU memory

Kernel 7.2: RK3588 media, smarter GPU memory, and Rust foundations

August 18, 2026 by Deborah Brouwer  |   News & Events

Linux kernel 7.2 adds broad core, Rust, and hardware-support updates, with Collabora contributing 102 patches across graphics, media, virtualization, networking, power management, and SoC enablement.

Kernel 7.2: RK3588 media, smarter GPU memory, and Rust foundations

MediaTek Genio upstream update: from HDMI 2.0 to booting on U-Boot and TF-A

August 12, 2026 by Julien Massot  |   News & Events

Collabora and MediaTek continue expanding upstream support across the Genio IoT family, with HDMI 2.0 now enabled for existing boards, Genio 520 and 720 support progressing in Linux, and Genio Pro 5100 enablement extending into U-Boot and Trusted Firmware-A.

MediaTek Genio upstream update: from HDMI 2.0 to booting on U-Boot and TF-A

Implementing Vulkan extensions for NVK

March 10, 2023 by Rebecca McKeever  |   Blog

Since joining the graphics team at Collabora as a Software Engineering Intern last November, I have implemented several Vulkan API extensions for NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa.

Implementing Vulkan extensions for NVK

Oxidizing bmap-tools: rewriting a Python project in Rust

March 03, 2023 by Rafael Garcia Ruiz  |   Blog

Rewriting bmaptool in Rust to remove Python dependencies, create statically linked binary, and allow the bmap sparse file format to be used in other Rust projects.

Oxidizing bmap-tools: rewriting a Python project in Rust

The futex_waitv() syscall and gaming on Linux

February 17, 2023 by Muhammad Usama Anjum  |   Blog

Just over a year has passed since the futex_waitv() syscall, part of the new futex2 systems calls, landed in Linux 5.16. But why are both needed? What role do they play in the context of gaming on Linux? Let's find out.

The futex_waitv() syscall and gaming on Linux

Exploring Rust for Vulkan drivers, part 1

February 02, 2023 by Faith Ekstrand  |   Blog

Over the course of the last decade, Rust has emerged as a new programming language for writing safe low-level code. This blog post is the first in a series exploring the area of using Rust to write Mesa Vulkan drivers.

Exploring Rust for Vulkan drivers, part 1

Labeling tools are great, but what about quality checks?

January 17, 2023 by Jakub Piotr Cłapa  |   Blog

MLfix is an open-source tool that combines novel unsupervised machine-learning pipelines with a new user interface concept that, together, help annotators and machine-learning engineers identify and filter out label errors.

Labeling tools are great, but what about quality checks?

A brave new world: building glibc with LLVM

January 17, 2023 by Adrian Ratiu  |   Blog

Times are changing: LLVM has become more than a spare to GCC, such that glibc - the last big GCC bastion, is now working towards supporting LLVM as a first-class citizen.

A brave new world: building glibc with LLVM

Kicking off 2023 with the MIT Reality Hack!

January 11, 2023 by Jakob Bornecrantz  |   Blog

It's with excitement and nervousness that I'm writing this post, sitting on a plane heading to Boston where I will attend the MIT Reality Hack as a mentor.

Kicking off 2023 with the MIT Reality Hack!

State of Monado's visual-inertial tracking

December 20, 2022 by Mateo de Mayo  |   Blog

The development of Monado's inside-out tracking solution keeps improving and more devices are now supported. Here's an overview of where things stand, as presented at the FOSS XR conference in October.

State of Monado's visual-inertial tracking

Machine Learning with Etnaviv and OpenCL

December 15, 2022 by Italo Nicola  |   Blog

Machine learning is increasingly seeing more applications and it's important to have FOSS options to accelerate such workloads. With that in mind, we began an effort earlier this year to get a TFLite model running on a VIM3 NPU using Etnaviv and OpenCL.

Machine Learning with Etnaviv and OpenCL

Tracing stateless video hardware decoding in V4L2

December 02, 2022 by Deborah Brouwer  |   Blog

Earlier this year, I joined Collabora for a six-month internship to learn how V4L2 (Video4Linux2) supports stateless video hardware decoding, and build a utility that traced and replayed stateless decoding from a userspace perspective.

Tracing stateless video hardware decoding in V4L2

From Lua to JSON: refactoring WirePlumber's configuration system

October 27, 2022 by Ashok Sidipotu  |   Blog

With the upcoming 0.5 release, WirePlumber's configuration system will be moving to a JSON syntax to define settings, bringing a more unified configuration approach across the PipeWire ecosystem.

From Lua to JSON: refactoring WirePlumber's configuration system

A look at Vulkan extensions in Venus

October 19, 2022 by Igor Torrente  |   Blog

Venus is a virtual Vulkan driver based on the Virtio-GPU protocol, which defines the serialization of Vulkan commands between guest and host. Here's a closer look at Venus, its components, and their relations in the context of extensions.

A look at Vulkan extensions in Venus

Three days, two exhibits, three talks

May 30, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Over the next few days, Collabora is very excited to be taking part in three events where we'll be exhibiting as well as giving talks: Augmented World Expo, Automotive Linux Summit and Open Source Summit Japan.

Three days, two exhibits, three talks

VR World, GStreamer, OSS, Vulkanised!

May 16, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

On the road again! Collaborans are heading to London, A Coruña & Buenos Aires to attend a VR event, a hackfest, a conference on Open Source systems, and a day of technical sessions on Vulkan! See you there?

VR World, GStreamer, OSS, Vulkanised!

Collabora at GENIVI AMM

May 08, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

From May 9 to 11, Collabora will be attending the GENIVI All Member Meeting & Open Community Days: Advancing Connected Vehicles in a Connected World, in Birmingham, UK!

Collabora at GENIVI AMM

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.11

May 01, 2017 by Helen Fornazier  |   News & Events

Linux Kernel 4.11 was released yesterday, and 9 different Collabora developers contributed a total of 44 patches, while also reviewing 22 other patches.

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.11

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

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Upcoming Events

Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!

Linux Plumbers Conference

October 5 - 7, Prague, Czech Republic

 

Khronos F2F Calgary

October 5 - 9, Calgary, Canada

 

Vision

October 6 - 8, Stuttgart, Germany

 

World AI Summit

October 7 - 8, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

Open Source Summit Europe

October 7 - 9, Prague, Czech Republic

 

GStreamer Conference

October 10 - 11, Prague, Czech Republic

 

 

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