Our Story

Ideas on Board started not with a grand plan, but with a contract.

Back in 2010, Laurent began working as a contractor for Nokia. What started as a short-term project turned into a long-term collaboration and slowly, a company began to take shape.

For the year, it was a one-person consultancy. Growth wasn’t the goal. But as the work expanded and long-standing collaborators joined the fold, it became clear that something more was forming: a values-led consultancy built on technical excellence, mutual trust, and a shared commitment to doing things the right way.

Today, Ideas on Board is a small team supporting open-source Linux development across the multimedia stack. We don’t build products. We don’t sell source code. We offer services - support, development, and technical leadership - to companies that need deep expertise and care about doing things well.

We’re best known for libcamera, a modern camera framework for Linux systems. It started as a risky idea in 2018 and has since grown into a respected project with wide adoption. It’s also become a proof point for our broader philosophy: that open-source development, when done right, is not only technically sound, it’s commercially viable, community-driven, and ethically better.

Our structure is flat. Our roles are fluid. And our culture is shaped by engineers who’ve stuck around because they believe in the work.

We’re not trying to scale for the sake of it. We grow when the work demands it - and when we find people who share our values.