On 28 November, in Berlin, the OpenForum Academy (OFA) Symposium will introduce a new tradition. The Basil Cousins Award will be instituted to honour the memory of the co-founder of OpenForum Europe (OFE) and a stalwart in the open technology field, Basil…

This article was originally published on the OSOR platform of the European Commission. Linux Foundation (LF) published the European edition of its Global Spotlight 2023 Survey, “Exploring the State of European Open Source…

Keynote of the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2024, OpenForum Academy Symposium, new team member Ola Adach, our event on the CRA and open source and policy in Madrid, and OFE on tour. The first keynote of the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2024 announced We are honoured to introduce our first keynote speaker, Mr. Amandeep Singh Gill,…

This article was originally posted on OSOR.  The time has come to celebrate excellence, transparency, and innovation in the realm of open source within European public services. We are delighted to announce the commencement of the voting phase for the OSOR Community Awards under the…

This article was originally published on the OSOR platform.  During a conference in June, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, took part in a discussion where he announced an investment of €40 million in open source large language models for…

OSOR has just published the first version of the report on the state of open source in Japan. This report is a comprehensive look at Japan’s use and policies on open source software (OSS) as of 2023. It showcases the evolution of such policies over recent years and features various…

The European Commission’s Open Source Observatory (OSOR) has issued a call for submissions for the EU Public Sector Open Source Achievement Awards. The contest aims to recognize exceptional open source initiatives and solutions developed for public services across Europe. Open to…

The Digital Commons concept has steadily grown in significance, permeating civil society conversations and policy dialogues. Especially after French government took the role of its champion. OpenForum Europe engages in exploring and decoding…

OSOR just published the updated version of the report on the state of Open Source in France. This report is an overview of France’s use and policies on open source software (OSS) as of February 2023. It showcases the evolution over the last years.  The report…

This article was originally published on the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory.  Software catalogues make public procurement easier by helping people find software and by presenting, as much as possible, the information required for procurement procedures….

As governments are moving to regulate the software market, the old tools of product liability regulation from the non-digital world are in need of an update, in order to realise the full set of opportunities, and grapple with the challenges presented by this new, less physical ecosystem. At OFE, we are…

OpenForum Europe is nominating Gaël Blondelle, a long-standing friend of OFE and a Chief Membership Officer at Eclipse Foundation as a candidate to the position of an affiliate director at Open Source Initiative (OSI). The Open…