Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Open Source Initiative (OSI)
EU Transparency Register
672028337929-77 First registered on 23 Apr 2020
Goals / Remit
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.
Main EU files targeted
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. This especially affects competition, technology and individual rights policy but can involve any area of the EU's activity. We are currently intending to contribute to discussion on EU competition rules on horizontal agreements between companies but also expect to contribute in any new discussion or instrument where "open source" in connection with software is affected.
Currently OSI is especially concerned about the various measures representing the Digital Agenda and its impact on open source usage throughout Europe in conjunction, notably the CRA and PLD. We are also contributing to the discussions on the implementation of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act and their impacts on open source software. We await information about revisions to the SEP Directive and to Regulation 1025. We are engaging with the implementation phase of the AI Act. We anticipate engagement with the many new instruments envisaged in the sessions commencing 2024.Address
Head Office
8605 Santa Monica BlvdPMB 63639
West Hollywood 90069-4109
UNITED STATESEU Office
PO Box 456
Southampton SO17 1LP
UNITED KINGDOMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 13 Mar 2025
Name Start date End Date Jordan Edward Maris 23 Sep 2024 23 Sep 2025 Simon Phipps 23 Sep 2024 23 Sep 2025 Complementary Information
Starting September 2024, we retain a full time policy consultant in Brussels. We retain a part-time consultants to directly engage in policy matters with a main focus in Europe.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
https://opensource.org/associations
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
698,274€
Major funding types in closed year
Grants, Donations, Member's contributions, Other
Funding types "other" information
Membership donations from individuals, event sponsorship, Interest income. Corporate entities are not members of OSI and have no governance role.
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Github 72,360€ Contribution Google LLC 166,428€ Other financial info
Currency Conversion Source From https://fx-rate.net/EUR/USD/ as of 12/31/2023
Currency Conversion Rate 0.9045 -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
During 2023 we published opinions on the CRA multiple times at https://opensource.org/blog and conducted meetings with officers from DG CNECT H.2 in relation to the CRA. We met representatives from the European Council on one occasion to discuss the CRA and PLD. We attended a Commission workshop on the implementation of the DMA and DSA. At the start of 2024 we co-organised the FOSDEM DevRoom "Open Source In The EU Policy Landscape" and included the contributions of officers across the Commission as well as Parliamentary representatives. We also attended a similar workshop organised by the Commission in the same period. We anticipate continuing the annual analogues of these activities.
Reflecting the cross-European nature of OSI's supporters (both individual and by NGOs and technology developer groups) OSI engages as necessary across the full scope of the EU's activity. OSI is a very small organisation so activity depends on the availability of a local member or staff member. We are routinely working in areas expected to fall under the oversight of the Commission's new Open Source Program Office and anticipate any formal communications will be with that function. We expect other activities to be on the scale of letters or single meetings.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
None declared