Igalia

Igalia (https://www.igalia.com), also Spanish, is a fairly prominent tech company that is also a co-op. Galois, Inc. (https://www.galois.com) is employee-owned, and they do lots of great formal methods work. But not sure whether this model is appropriate for a startup. I guess splitting stock more evenly is a good starting point.

Switch from a typical corporate structure to a cooperative. In the tech world, Igalia would be a good example to follow. https://www.igalia.com/

Hey! To you and Amiuba. I did get started into freelancing slowly. I had money saved when I quit my job and I took things slowly. I don't use freelancing websites. For marketing I use conferences, user-conferences and open-source. I am still in a good relationship with my last employer and I do freelance work for them too. Wrt the coop, one of my motivations is this Spanish open-source coop which has been running for quite a while and does excellent work: https://www.igalia.com/ When doing research on the topic I found this document you may find interesting too "Technology freelancer's guide to starting worker cooperative": https://www.techworker.coop/resources/technology-freelancers-guide-sta…

Igalia | Multiple positions | A Coruña, Spain | Full-Time | REMOTE | https://www.igalia.com/ Igalia is a worker-owned, employee-run company with over 17 years of experience building Free Software across a wide range of exciting fields. We work on the core of such widely-deployed projects as the WebKit and Blink browser engines, the Mesa graphics drivers, the V8, JavaScriptCore and SpiderMonkey language runtimes, and the GStreamer multimedia toolkit. We are also at the cutting edge of high-speed software-defined networking with our work on Snabb Switch. At Igalia, you can develop your career in a unique environment, participating equally in the management of the company via our democratic, consensus-based assembly structure. Igalia is a remote-friendly working environment, enabling employees all over the world to participate fully in the company culture. Our team includes employees based in Asia, Europe and the Americas, spanning across timezones and cultures. One of the core principles of Igalia is equality, so we feel a deep and continual obligation to acknowledge and counter the structural discrimination that permeates our industry and our world. In a practical sense this means that we use principles of diversity and inclusion to help shape company policy and to maintain a safe and just work environment. We also feel that one of the best ways to accomplish these goals is to grow and maintain the diversity of Igalia itself. We welcome applicants regardless of their age,…

They say "open source" but they are looking for "no-profit motive" IMO. Which is fine, but they should be opening a generous fund for democratically-run non-profits whose primary activity is developing open software which is useful for the EU and is an alternative to US corp-controlled software. EU has plenty of these orgs it can generously fund, and scoping funding like this would create more. Some existing examples (many of which accept gov't funds but need a lot more to rival big tech): - https://framasoft.org/en/ - https://www.igalia.com/ - https://deuxfleurs.fr/ - https://www.chatons.org/

Incredible work here, super excellent job. Incredible job keeping performance high. Valve/Steam have been funding Igalia to do some further work here on FEX, supporting Valve's Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 gen 3 powered Steam Frame headset. (Sharp move contracting brilliant talented open-source veterans, imo!) https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html Amazing seeing a company care about software, take matters into their own hands in a real way. Such such such great wins for Steam.

WebKit has this: https://webkit.org/team/ https://www.igalia.com seems to the other major contributor. Sony is in there a little too. https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Companies%20and%20Organizations%20that%20… too but that's 12 years out of date. I would love to see a WebKit browser for Windows that's released, but https://docs.webkit.org/Ports/WindowsPort.html does exist too. As for the Mastodon link, I'd ask https://front-end.social/@jensimmons

Re: Mondragon, compare https://www.igalia.com (how many of these are there?); the CNT may have lost at the barricades (and half-star forts), but there are still sparks among their embers?

Igalia: https://www.igalia.com/ Works on open source stuff, like Linux kernel, GStreamer, etc.

Igalia comes to mind. They do quite a lot of work on all the big three browser engines, Blink, WebKit and Gecko, among other things. https://www.igalia.com/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igalia

Igalia is doing amazing work shipping native MathML support for Chromium based browsers. https://www.igalia.com/2023/01/10/Igalia-Brings-MathML-Back-to-Chromiu…

One of Igalia's, the team funding this new Servo development, projects is Servo-based Wolvic[1] which is a continuation of the Firefox VR project: >A few months ago, we announced we would be taking over stewardship of what was then the Firefox Reality project, spinning off a new browser based on Reality’s foundations that would follow its own evolutionary path: Wolvic. [1] https://www.igalia.com/2022/07/08/Wolvic-1.0.html

Might want to read the company's profile for more info: https://www.igalia.com/about/history They are an open source software consultancy. "Since 2010, Igalia has become the world’s leading web engines consultancy, and has been a top contributor to the WebKit and Chromium projects. Thanks to our excellent work, Igalia has since been accepted as a member of associations including the W3C, GENIVI, Automotive Grade Linux, the Khronos Group, and ECMA International." But off the top of my head with their focus on embeddable IOT devices, that alone is a good business case. Having CSS/HTML available to render to OLEDs, eink displays, smart watches, etc, would be super nice.

I think it's noteworthy that feature was pursued and implemented by Igalia, an independent open source dev house whose HQ is in Spain, and is run as a co-operative. They've built up quite a powerhouse of core browser experts. https://www.igalia.com/about/values

The only time I've seen rendering issues with Safari was on early versions of Catalina but that was true of a lot of apps back then. I blame how sucky Catalina was for the first few releases. In the latest versions of Catalina and on Big Sur, Safari has been rock solid; none of these issues. Again, no issues with CSS Grid either. Igalia (https://www.igalia.com) implemented CSS Grid for both Webkit and Blink; they had more commits to Webkit and Blink than anyone else except Apple and Google. It's not clear why there would be major differences between the two…

There's another interesting (but way smaller) cooperative in Spain: Igalia https://www.igalia.com/ They work in open source projects and are big contributors to Chromium/blink, WebKit, V8, Vulkan, etc...

Igalia, http://www.igalia.com/ -- 40+ people, 11 or 12 years old (I forget!). A few articles I wrote on working at Igalia last year: http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/06/05/no-master http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/06/13/but-that-would-be-anarchy http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/06/25/time-for-money

We are looking for good hackers with experience in free software. We work on WebKit (maintainers of the GTK+ port), networking, multimedia, javascript, etc. Working remotely is perfectly possible. The company is Igalia (http://www.igalia.com), and we have a sort of cooperative structure (no bosses, all major decisions taken democratically). If it sounds like your kind of thing, the email is in my profile.

The one I’ve heard of is Igalia https://www.igalia.com/

https://www.igalia.com/chats/xslt-liam So basically browsers had this [..] the question now is there is no investment in this. None. And there hasn't been for a really long time from the browser's perspectives. XSLT shows up then to be very robust technology that survived the test of time already - if for decades (!) regardless of lack of support, investment, with key browser bugs not fixed by purpose stuck at version 1.0 - it's still being used in that working part - and if used it holds up well and last, in meantime, elsewhere: XPath And XSLT continue to evolve. They've really continued to evolve. And people are currently working on an XSLT-4. or Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust 381 points 8 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43502291 . And because it's a declarative way of transforming trees and collections of trees. And declarative means you don't say how to do it. You say, 'This is what I want'.. .. it's timeless: _abstracted definition_ to which imperative solutions could be reduced in the best case - with unaware of that authors repetitively trying (and soon having to) to reimplement that "not needed" ( - if abstracted already out ! - ) part ( ex. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183624 ) - in more or less common or compatible ways - so, better keep it - as not everybody can afford expensive solutions and there are nonprofits too that don't depend on % of money wasted repeating same work and like to KISS !

> where the company sells support or hosting Yep, you got this. We also sell open source extensions (yep, you could build and download the code, and strip the license handling, but somehow companies will pay for the convenience of having the install and upgrade done automatically - they also know that they support the company behind the thing they use, in a way that can be easily justified to their accounting department, with an invoice, and get some support hours included, which they like. Paying for something that is paid is easier than donating!). And we also do (a lot of) consulting. For desktop applications, it might be harder indeed. Though JetBrains does have an extension store and could do the same, and also sell support. Not sure about the consulting, but why not? Maybe they could sell some of the expertise they have on actually a big number of topics. I'm sure companies would be eager to pay them to implement feature in their IDEs they need, or to build components specific to their setup / projects. I'm discovering that companies will spend money on all sorts of things, I'm actually somewhat surprised by this. Igalia [3], for instance, does this with browsers. They sell consulting around browsers and also get paid to contribute features in the big engines. I mentioned curl earlier, Daniel gets paid for doing commercial support on curl [1]: > I work for wolfSSL from home doing commercial curl support. If you need help to fix curl problems, fix your app's use…

Igalia is that, in Spain: http://www.igalia.com/

One of the most well known is Igalia: https://www.igalia.com

First of all, as an aside, thank you for all the work you do on Python! I actually got started pretty early on in my professional career with Python (3.5+ too, which I am thankful for in hindsight). I was using VS Code and the Python Extension before MS even acquired its developer (is Don still there? I hope he is. Such a genuinely down to earth guy). Without the work you guys do I don't know if I would have taken the programming the same way, or at that the time I did in my life. I will say, I didn't realize the funding situation was _that_ dire, especially since on Talk Python I remember specifically Michael and some others talking about the massive influx of money into Python and its ecosystem in the last year and half or so. Its not billions of dollars but it sounded like the situation had a positive uptick substantially, so, in short, I was wrong! Has the PSF ever considered having an actual business? Like say, consulting and/or having developers work on features that businesses pay to have implemented? (A loose example of this would be Igalia[0], which makes surprisingly good amounts of money to implement features in web browsers on behalf of the major browser vendors) I've always thought this would be a pretty natural way to have a steady source of revenue and the profits could all feed back into the PSF. [0]https://www.igalia.com/

There is Igalia (https://www.igalia.com/)

Igalia are implementation consultants not management consultants. They are who you get in when you need the expert in some field to fix your problem, usually by writing the code themselves. For example if you're writing driver code and you have problems you call them. Or if your Valve and you are having trouble with the linux graphics stack you might call them[1] etc.... [1]: https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

And Igalia is notable for contributing to every major browser engine: https://www.igalia.com/2026/01/05/Doing-Our-Share-for-the-Web-in-2025.…

Recently I learned about CachyOS, it has custom scheduler to run things smoothly, including games. And SteamOS is also doing the custom scheduler for games. From what I can find, Bazzite doesn't seem to use custom scheduler. Does these custom scheduler bring noticeable gains during usage? My previous linux desktop was a non-gaming distro, so I'm a bit curious on these fancy stuffs. - BORE, CachyOS scheduler: https://wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_basic/why_cachyos/#advanced-cpu-sched… - LAVD, SteamOS scheduler: https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

See the corresponding Igalia article for more details: https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html