By Tiana Lea for the OpenUK State of Open Photo Exhibition sponsored by Arm It is with great sadness that we announce the passing away of OpenForum Europe co-founder, Basil Cousins, after a very long illness. He died peacefully at home with all his family present….

Make sure you catch OFE at FOSDEM 2023!  The Coming EU Standard-Essential Patents regulation In early 2023, the European Commission will publish its proposal for a regulation on Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs) to address issues of legal uncertainty, the vulnerability of SMEs, and transaction costs. This regulation…

Source of the picture: Pixabay.com Without open source, our technology would be standing on very different grounds today. It is the collaboration within open source that enables a common technological evolution—as it nurtures ideas, innovation, interoperability, open standards and…

From Astor Nummelin Carlberg, OFE’s Executive Director This has been a big year for open technologies in Europe. We have been impressed by the actions taken by governments across the continent when it comes to leveraging openness to support dynamic, responsive, and cost effective solutions. Open Source Programme Offices are…

  Strong from our previous iterations, we are excited to share with you that our upcoming EU Open Source Policy Summit 2023 will be held on 3 February 2023. The event will be a one-day conference, and we are planning to hold this event in a hybrid format. REGISTRATION AND…

OFE is happy to announce that the recently launched Linux Foundation Europe is joining us as a supporter. The LF has been active in Europe for a long time, but we see this new effort as yet another example that Europe is a nexus for global Open Source…

OpenForum Europe is the new maintainer of the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory OpenForum Europe has been asked by the European Commission to take over the further development of their Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR). We are grateful for this opportunity to…

OFE’s event “Open Source driving the European Digital Decade” in Brno on 16 September was an opportunity for political stakeholders to gather and discuss Open Source in EU digital policies. Particularly noteworthy was the announcement from the…

Read our latest paper on the state of play, rationale and context of the emergence of Open Source Program Offices in the public sector observed in the last couple of years.  This paper provides an overview of the uptake of Open Source in the public sector and its role in enhancing openness,…

This article was originally published on OSOR, the European Open Source Observatory, to which OFE is a regular contributor. Based on open technologies, this initiative aims to support the people in Ukraine by providing timely information on border crossings, missile alerts, missing…

OFE is excited to announce that Sony Europe is joining as a supporter. The contact point will be the European node of Sony’s global open source software team. We are looking forward to working together on advancing OFE’s openness principles of user centricity, competition, flexibility,…

OpenForum Europe is nominating Carlo Piana, a long-standing friend of OFE and a Fellow of the OpenForum Academy as a candidate to the position of an affiliate director at Open Source Initiative (OSI). The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is…