Associations

The Open Source Initiative, in order to advance our mission to promote and protect open source software, development and communities, champion software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, steward the Open Source Definition (OSD), and prevent abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement, engages in and with a variety of organizations in various roles and capacities. Those organizations are listed here.

CONCUL Foundation Logo The CONSUL Foundation supports the CONSUL platform, a complete tool enabeling citizen participation for open, transparent, and democratic government.
   
ETSI Membership Logo ETSI is the recognized regional standards body European Standards Organization (ESO), dealing with telecommunications, broadcasting, and other electronic communications networks and services.
KDE e.V. Logo The KDE e.V. Advisory Board provides a space for organizations to support KDE e.V. by giving feedback on KDE's activities and decisions. Furthermore, it is a channel to facilitate communication between KDE and the organizations on the Advisory Board.
The New York Council of Nonprofits (NYCON) works together with our members, other nonprofits, funders and stakeholders to enrich communities by building the capacity of nonprofits through services and advocacy. We believe our mission is most effectively fulfilled through a commitment to diversity and inclusiveness as a core value and practice.
OW2 is a global open source software community, working to promote the development of middleware, generic business applications, cloud computing platforms and foster a vibrant community and business ecosystem.

To promote and protect open source software and communities...

For over 20 years the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has worked to raise awareness and adoption of open source software, and build bridges between open source communities of practice. As a global non-profit, the OSI champions software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, stewarding the Open Source Definition (OSD), and preventing abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement.

Open source software is made by many people and distributed under an OSD-compliant license which grants all the rights to use, study, change, and share the software in modified and unmodified form. Software freedom is essential to enabling community development of open source software.