--- title: From Vienna, with Open Source: XDC 2025 | daily.dev description: Collabora is attending X.Org Developer's Conference 2025 (XDC 2025) in Vienna, September 29 to October 1, held at TU Wien. As a Gold Sponsor, Collabora's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/from-vienna-with-open-source-xdc-2025-ymzehtneb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: From Vienna, with Open Source: XDC 2025 | daily.dev og:description: Collabora is attending X.Org Developer's Conference 2025 (XDC 2025) in Vienna, September 29 to October 1, held at TU Wien. As a Gold Sponsor, Collabora's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-vienna-with-open-source-xdc-2025-ymzehtneb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YmzEHTnEB.png og:image:alt: From Vienna, with Open Source: XDC 2025 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From Vienna, with Open Source: XDC 2025 **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Collabora is attending X.Org Developer's Conference 2025 (XDC 2025) in Vienna, September 29 to October 1, held at TU Wien. As a Gold Sponsor, Collabora's graphics team will present 6 talks covering NVK/Nouveau updates, PanVK's journey to Vulkan 1.4, a new Rust GPU driver called Tyr, Mesa CI improvements, and new YUV formats in Mesa. Erik Faye-Lund will also lead an Embedded Graphics Stack 101 workshop with hands-on Mesa Vulkan driver work. The event is free to attend. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What talks is Collabora presenting at XDC 2025? Collabora is presenting 6 talks at XDC 2025: 'Descriptors are Hard' by Faith Ekstrand, 'Tyr: a new Rust GPU driver' by Daniel Almeida, 'Addressing Mesa CI pain points' by Martin Roukala et al., 'Adding New YUV Formats to Mesa' by Eric Smith, 'PanVK: from PoC to Vulkan 1.4 in less than a year' by Erik Faye-Lund et al., and 'Nouveau/NVK Update' by Faith Ekstrand. _Open source graphics developers following Mesa and Vulkan progress track XDC coverage on daily.dev._ ### What is the Tyr GPU driver and what language is it written in? Tyr is a new GPU driver written in Rust, presented by Daniel Almeida at XDC 2025. It represents Collabora's work on bringing Rust to GPU driver development, though specific hardware targets or architecture details are not elaborated beyond the conference talk announcement. _Developers exploring Rust for systems and driver work find relevant updates on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [XDC 2026 Will Feature Many Interesting Talks: Vulkan Gallium, OpenCL On CUDA & More](https://daily.dev/posts/xdc-2026-will-feature-many-interesting-talks-vulkan-gallium-opencl-on-cuda-more-3holubtga) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Panfrost, Kraid, Tyr, and more at XDC 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/panfrost-kraid-tyr-and-more-at-xdc-2026-rxhyon6pb) · Collabora Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Open Source in Prague: A week of talks, hands-on demos, and community\!](https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-in-prague-a-week-of-talks-hands-on-demos-and-community--w2mxqffp2) · Collabora Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust), [#vulkan](https://daily.dev/tags/vulkan), [#mesa](https://daily.dev/tags/mesa) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/from-vienna-with-open-source-xdc-2025-ymzehtneb) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"From Vienna, with Open Source: XDC 2025","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/from-vienna-with-open-source-xdc-2025-ymzehtneb","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/from-vienna-with-open-source-xdc-2025-ymzehtneb"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:57:11.012Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:42:16.088Z","description":"Collabora is attending X.Org Developer's Conference 2025 (XDC 2025) in Vienna, September 29 to October 1, held at TU Wien. 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