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The Open Source Consortium represents companies and individuals that deliver solutions and advice based on Open Standards and Free & Open Source Software.

We serve our members as a trade association, giving members greater influence than they could achieve alone, by providing a collective voice to government and other public bodies.

We serve our members' clients by providing access to independent expertise in Free & Open Source companies.

We campaign ceaselessly for the use of Open Standards in all aspects of public and commercial life, promoting the unique advantages of Free & Open Source Software.

We welcome anyone that supports our aims. Why not join us?

Open Standards for Open Government

On Monday 30 April Policy Exchange held an even Open standards for open government?

We were pleased to have supported the event

Fellow speakers Adam Afriyrie MP (middle) and Chris Francis, IBM (right) looked happy too.

Policy Exchange have posted the video

The Twitter wall was quite active during the event, too.

Feedback from attendees after was positive and almost all of of them took away a hard copy of our study on royalty free open standards and the wider government agenda .

Thanks to everyone for making the event happen.

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Open Standards for Open Government?

Monday 30 April 2012, London

The Policy Exchange is holding an open event discussing the role of open standards in UK public policy.:

Open standards for open government?

Speakers:

Adam Afriyie MP | Shadow Minister for Science and Innovation, 2007-2010 | Chair of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, and President of the Conservative Technology Forum

Dr Chris Francis | Technical Relations, IBM

Stephen Mutkoski | Worldwide Policy Director, International Government Affairs, Microsoft

Phil Archer | Technology and Society, W3C

Gerry Gavigan | Chair of the Open Source Consortium

Chaired by Chris Yiu | Head of the Digital Government Unit at Policy Exchange RSVP: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Open Standards, FRAND, and FOSS

Thursday 29 March 2012, London

Cabinet Office is consulting on Open Standards until 3 May 2012. Our friends the BCS Open Source Software Group are staging an open discussion meeting which aims to unravel the relationship between Open Standards, FRAND, and FOSS. The event will clarify what effect this relationship has for the practical application of Open Source Software.

The outputs from the event will be fed into the BCS policy hub to form part of the BCS response.

29 March 2012, 18.00-21.00, London WC2 - Free to attend and open to all

Gerry Gavigan, OSC chair is presenting at this free event hosted at the BCS headquarters in London.

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BBC and Apple

We have started a complaint with the BBC that editorial guidance needs to be enforced more rigorously in order to avoid product advertising in editorial. Long time readers of this website might be interested to know that this time, it's not Microsoft.

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OSC joins Information Standards Board for Education, Skills and Children’s Services

All part of our commitment to open standards

We've just been invited to participate in the standards work of the Department for Education. It's all part of the required level of commitment to standards development that doesn't seem to be fully understood at the centre of government.

This work isn't exciting, is voluntary effort and is essential. It certainly requires more ongoing commitment than a couple of meetings with policy lightweights.

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