Lanedo
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Lanedo provides professional open source software
development consultancy globally, helping businesses to get innovative, Open Source based, products to market. Lanedo is one of the few highly specialized companies that can guarantee optimum interaction with Open Source communities by providing businesses with experienced developers from Open Source communities such as LibreOffice
, Networkmanager
/Modemmanager (part of NetworkManager project) and Gtk.
Lanedo is a European company with limited liability
based in Hamburg
. The company has been involved with a number of mobile and embedded platforms
over the years including Maemo
and MeeGo
. Their software development
has a focus around Linux
in general and targeting platforms ranging from mobile and embedded to desktop environment
s.
The name 'Lanedo' is based on a roughly phonetic sounding of the letters L, N, and D. These are mentioned as Linux, Networking, and Development respectively.
, the idea of creating a company to be able to continue working together with the technologies they loved, the idea of Imendio was formed.
After 5 years of building up the company, the founders decided they wanted to step back for personal reasons. The business and people continued in a new company called Lanedo founded by Tim Janik and Martyn Russell in early 2009.
In 2011, Lanedo joined the Documentation Foundation TSC (Task Steering Committee) and became much more involved in the future of LibreOffice.
Open-source software
Open-source software is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.Open...
development consultancy globally, helping businesses to get innovative, Open Source based, products to market. Lanedo is one of the few highly specialized companies that can guarantee optimum interaction with Open Source communities by providing businesses with experienced developers from Open Source communities such as LibreOffice
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. It is largely compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, and available on a variety of platforms...
, Networkmanager
NetworkManager
Network Manager is a software utility aimed at simplifying the use of computer networks on Linux-based and other Unix-like operating systems.- Overview :...
/Modemmanager (part of NetworkManager project) and Gtk.
Lanedo is a European company with limited liability
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung is a type of legal entityvery common in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other Central European countries...
based in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
. The company has been involved with a number of mobile and embedded platforms
Embedded system
An embedded system is a computer system designed for specific control functions within a larger system. often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts. By contrast, a general-purpose computer, such as a personal...
over the years including Maemo
Maemo
Maemo is a software platform developed by the Maemo community for smartphones and Internet tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution, but has no relation to it...
and MeeGo
MeeGo
MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system project. Primarily targeted at mobile devices and information appliances in the consumer electronics market, MeeGo is designed to act as an operating system for hardware platforms such as netbooks, entry-level desktops, nettops, tablet...
. Their software development
Software development
Software development is the development of a software product...
has a focus around Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
in general and targeting platforms ranging from mobile and embedded to desktop environment
Desktop environment
In graphical computing, a desktop environment commonly refers to a style of graphical user interface derived from the desktop metaphor that is seen on most modern personal computers. These GUIs help the user in easily accessing, configuring, and modifying many important and frequently accessed...
s.
The name 'Lanedo' is based on a roughly phonetic sounding of the letters L, N, and D. These are mentioned as Linux, Networking, and Development respectively.
History
It all began in 2003 when Mikael Hallendal and Richard Hult were working together on a project management software called Planner. With a shared passion for development and GTK+GTK+
GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the X Window System, along with Qt.The name GTK+ originates from GTK;...
, the idea of creating a company to be able to continue working together with the technologies they loved, the idea of Imendio was formed.
After 5 years of building up the company, the founders decided they wanted to step back for personal reasons. The business and people continued in a new company called Lanedo founded by Tim Janik and Martyn Russell in early 2009.
In 2011, Lanedo joined the Documentation Foundation TSC (Task Steering Committee) and became much more involved in the future of LibreOffice.
by Lanedo
- LibreOfficeLibreOfficeLibreOffice is a free and open source office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. It is largely compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, and available on a variety of platforms...
- GTK+ / GLibGLibGLib is a cross-platform software utility library that began as part of the GTK+ project. However, before releasing version 2 of GTK+, the project's developers decided to separate non-GUI-specific code from the GTK+ platform, thus creating GLib as a separate product...
/ GIOGIO (Gnome)GIO provides a modern, easy-to-use VFS API that sits at the right level in the library stack. The goal is to overcome the shortcomings of GnomeVFS and provide an API that is so good that developers prefer it over raw POSIX calls. It ships with GLib as a separate library called libgio-2.0...
/ GvfsGVFSGVFS is the virtual filesystem for the GNOME desktop, which allows users easy access to remote data via SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, SMB, and local data via HAL integration, OBEX and others.... - Tracker
- NetworkManagerNetworkManagerNetwork Manager is a software utility aimed at simplifying the use of computer networks on Linux-based and other Unix-like operating systems.- Overview :...
- D-BusD-BusIn computing, D-Bus is a simple inter-process communication open-source system for software applications to communicate with one another. Heavily influenced by KDE2–3's DCOP system, D-Bus has replaced DCOP in the KDE 4 release. An implementation of D-Bus supports most POSIX operating...
- WebKitWebKitWebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple Safari and by October 2011 held over 33% of the browser market share between them. It is also used as the basis for the experimental browser included with the Amazon Kindle ebook...
- GIMPGIMPGIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...