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Lanedo

Lanedo GmbH was a professional open source software development consultancy based in Germany. It operated as a European company with limited liability based in Hamburg. The company had been involved with a number of mobile and embedded platforms over the years including Maemo and MeeGo. Their software development had a focus around Linux in general and targeting platforms ranging from mobile and embedded to desktop environments.

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Lanedo
Company type
GmbH
IndustrySoftware Consulting
Founded2009
Defunct30 June 20181
HeadquartersKollaukamp 10, Hamburg - Germany
Area served
Worldwide
ServicesOpen source consultancy and engineering
Websitewww.lanedo.com

Lanedo GmbH was a professional open source software development consultancy based in Germany. It operated as a European company with limited liability based in Hamburg. The company had been involved with a number of mobile and embedded platforms over the years including Maemo and MeeGo.2 Their software development had a focus around Linux in general and targeting platforms ranging from mobile and embedded to desktop environments.

History

In 2003, Mikael Hallendal and Richard Hult were working together on a project management application called Planner. They founded Imendio.34

After 5 years, the founders stepped back, and the business and people continued in a new company called Lanedo founded by Tim Janik and Martyn Russell in early 2009. Mikael and Richard started a new company called TinyBird Interactive AB to work together and focus on OS X application development. As of February 2009 Imendio AB was split into Tinybird Interactive AB and Landeo GmbH. 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.5

In 2011, Lanedo joined the Document Foundation's initial Engineering Steering Committee (ESC).6

Starting in summer 2012, Lanedo, in cooperation with ITOMIG, supported the town of Munich in the LibreOffice maintenance of the LiMux project.7

Lanedo had also actively participated in implementing the OOXML support for LibreOffice.8

Lanedo was liquidated in June 2018.1

These projects are contributed to by Lanedians.9

Project Description
LibreOffice10 Free office suite
NetworkManager1112 / ModemManager13 Modem and Network connectivity suite
libqmi14 Qualcomm's modem protocol library
libmbim15 Mobile Broadband Interface Model (MBIM) library
Tracker16 Semantic data store, indexer and a search engine
GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program
GTK+17 / GLib / GIO / GVfs Cross platform User Interface toolkit
Gossip XMPP chat client
Giggle18 Git source code repository browser
BEAST Music composition and synthesis
Rapicorn19 User Interface toolkit
GNU PDF20 PDF file format library
Getting Things GNOME!21 TODO / task based graphical application
WebKit22 Open Source web browser engine
Linux kernel23 Operating system kernel used by Linux systems
D-Bus IPC library
References

References

  1. Janik, Tim. "Lanedo GmbH - Liquidated". Retrieved 29 April 2026.
  2. "Lanedo Involvement - MeeGo". Archived from the original on 2011-10-20. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
  3. Loli, Eugenia (2004-09-28). "Interview with Mikael Hallendal Founder of Imendio about company inception and purpose". osnews.com. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
  4. "Home". imendio.com.
  5. "Lanedo - About". lanedo.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
  6. "Document Foundation appoints Engineering Steering Committee". Archived from the original on 8 December 2013.
  7. "Nehmen und Geben (German article)".
  8. "Improved OOXML support for LibreOffice and OpenOffice". Archived from the original on 7 December 2013.
  9. "Lanedians". Archived from the original on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
  10. "Lanedo Involvement - LibreOffice". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
  11. "NetworkManager & ModemManager Support".
  12. "Lanedo Involvement - NetworkManager". Archived from the original on 2011-10-20. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
  13. "ModemManager".
  14. "libqmi source code repository for Qualcomm's QMI modem protocol".
  15. "libmbim source code repository for the Modem Broadband Interface Model protocol".
  16. "Lanedo Involvement - Tracker".
  17. "GTK+ Support". Archived from the original on 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
  18. "Giggle – GNOME wiki".
  19. "Rapicorn".
  20. "GNU PDF Project".
  21. "Getting Things GNOME Project". Archived from the original on 2020-12-01. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  22. "Lanedo Involvement - WebKit".
  23. "Lanedo Involvement - Linux Kernel". Archived from the original on 2013-05-09. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
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