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KO GmbH is an international software company with headquarters in Magdeburg, Germany. We are a group of specialists dedicated mainly to the Qt C++ toolkit, the Calligra Suite and the OpenDocument file format.

Our business is to offer custom solutions and professional services. We have deep expertise in the following areas:

Application and library development using Qt
Application development and packaging using HTML5
the OpenDocument Format
the Krita 2D Paint Application
the Calligra Application Suite
File format conversion, especially for office document formats.

Latest News

2013-04-22: KO GmbH Announces Support and Maintenance for Krita: Krita Studio

KO GmbH announces extensive support services for the award-winning professional paint application Krita. Krita is an advanced paint application with a large set of professional paint tools and which can handle extremely large images effortlessly. This makes it well suited for special effects work in the movie industry.

Krita has already been used in several Hollywood block buster movies like G.I. Joe 2 by VFX leaders such as Digital Domain. Krita has been used for many different tasks including concept art, matte painting and rotoscopy.

Until now Krita has lacked a structured support offering, something that KO GmbH, which employs several of the lead developers of Krita, sees as an opportunity. Simon Legrand, currently 3D generalist at Double Negative in London says: "It's a testament to the quality and productivity of Krita that I have been able to use it to such an extent already before the availability of company support for it." Boudewijn Rempt, maintainer of Krita and CTO at KO GmbH adds: "There is a very lively community around Krita and we are always working with the needs of our users before our eyes."

See the product page and support page for more details about Krita Studio

2013-02-10: KO GmbH Exhibits Krita Sketch at the Mobile World Congress

KO GmbH will exhitib Krita Sketch together with intel at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 25th - 28th. Come to the Intel booth and see how you can use a professional paint tool with an Intel touch based ultrabook and Krita Sketch! The booth is the Intel booth near the entrance of the biggest hall.

UPDATE: You can read a report from the show at krita.org

2012-11-20: KO GmbH Releases First Touch Version of Krita: Krita Sketch

KO GmbH has today released the first tablet/ultrabook version of the award-winning digital painting application Krita. Optimized for touch screens, Krita Sketch provides everything an artist needs to create great images on the go.

In partnership with Intel, Krita Sketch 1.0 for Windows 7 and Windows 8 is available for free from Intel AppUp.

Read more about Krita and Krita Sketch on http://www.kogmbh.com/krita

2012-07-01: Camilla Boemann Receives Award for Best Application at KDE Akademy

KO employee and Calligra Words maintainer Camilla Boemann and Calligra Words were selected to receive the award for best application by the jury of the Akademy awards. KDE Akademy is the yearly international conference for the KDE community of which the Calligra team is part.

2012-05-26: KO To Bring Krita to Windows, AppUP store

KO GmbH, the company which brought the Calligra application suite to Windows, Android, Maemo and MeeGo, is pleased to announce that they will start working on creating a new Windows version of the acclaimed digital painting application Krita, with funding from Intel.

The application will be called Krita Sketch. Krita Sketch will integrate with all the new touch facilities on Ultrabooks and upcoming Intel-based tablets and give new possibilities to creative artists everywhere.

2012-05-22: KO Partners with Make Play Live

KO GmbH, has become a partner with Make Play Live, the company which develops and markets the Vivaldi tablets. KO has become partner in 3 categories:
Add-on Partner
Integration Partner
Enterprise Partner

Find out more details about this partnership and what it can bring to our customers on our Partner page

2012-04-25: KO Coworker in the OASIS Technical Committee for Open Document

KO GmbH is proud to announce today that our colleague C Boemann has entered the select group of members of the OASIS technical committee for the Open Document Format. Boemann is our second colleague together with J van den Oever to join the TC.

Boemann blogs about this and writes: "The initial purpose is to make recomendations and alterations for the next generation of change tracking in the ODF file format. I am working together with two other members of the TC, but, even though I'm not alone, I really feel the personal responsibility to make something good, as billions of people can potentially be affected."