Open Source Consortium (OSC)

The Open Source Consortium (OSC) is the trade body representing the Open Source business community in the United Kingdom (UK). The aims and objectives of the OSC are:-

• To promote wider adoption of Free/Libre Open Source Software (“FLOSS”) and open unencumbered standards (“Openness”) in all sections of UK society
• To identify barriers to the adoption of FLOSS and Openness work to remove them though awareness raising
• To increase member revenue by creating opportunities for members to tender for and participate in commercial contracts.
• To represent the interests of members in the media and through lobbying.
• To achieve such other objectives as the membership decides.
• To work with other national and international organisations with compatible aims and objectives