Registration for the conference "OSOR Turns 15: From Pioneering to Mainstreaming Open Technologies in Public Services” is now open. The OSOR community, together with open-source practitioners and enthusiasts, will gather on 21 November in Brussels to celebrate the European Commission Open Source Observatory’s (OSOR) 15th anniversary.

Last month we shared with you the announcement for the OSOR awards 2023. Don't miss the chance to participate until the 21st September and maybe present your project at the 15 years anniversary of OSOR !

Join the third and last event of the series on open source software strategies and implementations in the public sector organised by OSOR for the public administrations and private sector actors who directly engage in OSS in digitising EU’s public services. The event will take place online on 27 September from 13:00 - 15:00 CET.

An open source software package from the Digital For Climate (D4C) consortium has recently received accreditation as a digital public good for its contribution to mitigating climate change. The accreditation has been done according to the DPGA standards.

This article takes us back to one of the first case studies published in 2004, focusing on the early days of what would later become OSOR . It examines the case of the province of Cremona and features an interview with Gianni Bassini, who was the system administrator for the province at that time.

Estonia's newly-launched "Donate a speech" campaign—to improve language-processing technology for the Estonian language—is both hosted on free and open source software, and aims to advance the speech processing capabilities of its free and open source AI virtual assistant.

Spain’s Ministry of Science and Technology has launched the country’s first National Strategy for Open Science (ENCA). Published in May, the Strategy aims to ensure that scientific research in Spain incorporates the principles of open science by 2027.

The United Kingdom government has published an update to its Digital, Data and Technology Playbook. The document sets out key policies and guidance for how digital projects and programmes are assessed, procured and delivered in the UK government.

The European Commission and the United Nations have launched the third edition of Open Source Solutions for Sustainable Development Goals (OSS4SDG), a hackathon that brings together tech innovators to design open source solutions addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The focus of this year's edition is SDG 5, which seeks to achieve g...

The OSOR team has just released the update on the report concerning the state of open source in Germany. It highlights the recent drive for greater employment of open source at the federal level. Through initiatives like the establishment of ZenDiS, a structure resembling an OSPO, and the progress made in creating a sovereign cloud, you will gain insights into one of the vanguards of open source policy in the EU.

OSOR published a new case study on Mancomún, an initiative of the Galician Government, launched in 2006, to encourage and facilitate the use of free and open source software (FOSS) in Galicia.This study aims to investigate the origin and evolution of Mancomún and its progress toward its aims.

Re3gistry is a data management system which can be used to organise and make data available in other systems, such as websites. Data can be tagged and linked and queried. The software, released under the EUPL, is mature and very well documented, including a 13-minute video showing how to set up and use it. It has multi-lingual support, an API, bulk...