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The Open Source Business Alliance e.V. is a German non-profit that operates Europe's biggest network of companies and organizations developing, building and using open source software.
The alliance was founded in July 2011 in Stuttgart. The two founding associations, Linux Solutions Group e.V. (Lisog) and the LIVE Linux-Verband e.V., officially merged their groups at their annual general meetings on the 20th and 21 July 2011.
The merger aimed to create a unified lobby group for the German open-source movement.
In 2014, a further attempted consolidation failed. The OSB Alliance and the Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF) first announced their intention to merge the two associations to form a single large advocacy group on 18 November 2013. After almost a year of negotiations that only achieved an agreement, the merger collapsed on 15 October 2014.
The alliance's main aims are to:
Central objectives of the alliance:
The current board of Open Source Business Alliance e.V. consists of 11 members:
Honorary Chairman
The OSB Alliance supports working groups that cover a wide range of issues. As of January 2015 the following working groups were in operation:
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