Overview

foss-north is a free, open source conference covering both software and hardware from the technical perspective. Hosted in Gothenburg between Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, with an international airport, the event provides a meeting place for the Nordic foss communities and brings together experts in the field.

Organised by the Croatian Linux Users’ Association and the Croatian Association for Open Systems and Internet, the conference provides a unique opportunity for today's developers, software architects and DevOps engineers to share actionable knowledge, while offering businesses the chance to meet and interact with the community.

The CONSULCON2026 will focus on issues relating to digital democracy, open source technology and democratic empowerment, and gives an opportunity to connect with the Consul community to exchange views and knowledge, and take a collective look forward into the near future.

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At the beginning of June, the European Commission unveiled its EU Open Source Strategy as part of the European Tech Sovereignty Package. The strategy promotes European open alternatives to reduce unhealthy dependencies, and puts open source at the heart of the efforts to strengthen Europe’s digital ecosystem. This comprehensive strategy marks a milestone in the governance of open innovation and digital open ecosystems. Open source is not on the policy fringes anymore, but at the forefront of the continent’s technological development and digital sovereignty.

Dear Reader, June brings new opportunities to connect, learn, and contribute to Europe's growing interoperability ecosystem. This month, we are pleased to unveil the full programme of the Interoperable Europe Academy Seasonal School 2026, which will bring together public sector professionals, policymakers, and interoperability experts from across Europe to explore key topics shaping digital public services. The implementation of the Interoperable Europe Act also continues to advance. In this edition, you can discover the highlights from the fourth Interoperable Europe Board meeting and register for a webinar on the Guidelines on Sharing Interoperability Solutions, one of the Act's key instruments for promoting reuse and collaboration across public administrations. The Interoperable Europe Community remains at the heart of these efforts. Read our interview with Claudia Oliveira, watch the new Community introduction video, and share your views through the Community survey to help shape future activities and priorities. You'll also find a wide range of upcoming events, webinars, interviews, and news from the Interoperable Europe Portal, Digital Ready Policymaking, Public Sector Tech Watch, and the Open Source Observatory. Happy reading!

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NIFO Programme Manager Claudia Oliveira gives you an insight in the modernisation of interoperability and digital government monitoring. She also selects the main trends that can be found within these activities.

Andrea Halmos, Deputy Head of Unit of the Interoperability Unit of DG Informatics, shares with us her passion for digital transformation. Discover her vision for a more Interoperable Europe now in this extended interview!

The Deputy Director-General for Digital Services shares his insights from working more than 20 years in IT and EU policymaking. He emphasises data’s transformative impact and SEMIC’s role in advancing European digital governance.

Due to the large popularity of the SEMIC2024-preconference workshops, we also uploaded the recordings of each workshop. Dive into your favourite in-depth topic on public sector interoperability now!

With this year's theme on making the vision behind the Interoperable Europe Act a reality, you can relive every session of the SEMIC2024 Main Conference (including the pre-conference workshops) via our Interoperable Europe Youtube Channel. Rewatch your favourite session now!

This is the final version of the OSOR Handbook, a practical guide for European public administrations to use, develop, and contribute to open source software. It covers the full cycle of working with open source in the public sector, from finding and assessing solutions (including public software catalogues) to procurement, community participation, funding, licensing, and governance structures such as OSPOs. The handbook reflects input from public-sector experts and incorporates feedback from community consultations, with updates including municipal catalogues, the EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue, and references to recent EU legislation.

This paper analyses findings from 23 Open Source Software Country Intelligence Reports, examining open source adoption in European public administrations through legal frameworks, governance mechanisms, reuse initiatives, and cross-border collaboration. It shows open source is increasingly mainstream in European public administrations, moving from a tactical tool to a strategic objective supported by emerging multi-stakeholder governance. The paper's scope includes the Western Balkans, with new country reports on Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia, highlighting how EU integration processes can accelerate open source adoption in candidate countries.

OSOR published a new case study on the work done by the Trufi association. It examines the uniquely international and community-based development model that was created by the Trufi association, and how it used open source to connect local European administrations with international counterparts in the development of intermodal mobility solutions.