OSBF: Landing Page

We support the success of your open source based business by designing your open source strategy, by developing your open source business model, and by showing you the strengths of open source: openess, diversity and innovation.

Membership

As a member you will receive support on an individual basis: We act for your interests in the public, in politics and in business. We offer personal coaching & mentoring and we help you join our member's network.

Our Projects

Our projects provide our members a neutral forum: for joint business efforts, to collaborate in open source software development or within consortial activities.

Coaching (individual coaching and mentoring on open source issues)
COSAD (collaborative open source application development)
Eclipse Marketing (connect software vendors and users)
Internationalization (OSBF activities and projects are going international)
Embedded (open source software development for embedded devices)
Events (competitions, events, (un-)conferences and workshops)
HR certification (IT and open source employee certifications)
Interoperability (interoperability between different IT platforms)
Open Cloud (Open Cloud Business Initiative ocbi.org)
Open Hardware (Arduino, Processing, FabLab)
Open Source Business Award (OSBA Business Award Competition)
Quality Services Alliance (Initiative for a OSS Quality Certificate)
Plat_Forms (web development platform contest)