Greek Free Open Source Software Society - Open Technologies Alliance
Recent meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
GFOSS – Open Technologies Alliance is a non-profit organization founded in 2008, 37 Universities and Research Centers are shareholders of GFOSS. Our main goal is to promote Openness through the use and the development of Open Standards and Open Technologies in Education, Public Administration and Business in Greece. We are platform for Open Standards, Free Software, Open Content, Open Data & Open Hardware in Greece. The major Greek Universities and Research Centers participate in GFOSS – Open Technologies Alliance, while leading members of the Greek community of developers play a key role in the implementation of our policies.
EU Legislative Interests
Digital Single Market Smart Cities & Communities ISA² programme Open Source Open Standards Open Procurement Intellectual Property Open Internet
Communication Activities
Participation in EU funded projects, such as H2020 projects and MED projects. Participation in events organised by EU such as ICT events. Participation in public consultations related to the policies described above.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
GFOSS is affiliated with Creative Commons, is a founding member of COMMUNIA and FAB LAB ATHENS, member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Network, Node of the Open Data Institute(http://opendatainstitute.org/), partner of the Open Forum Europe (http://www.openforumeurope.org), member of the Open Budget Initiative (http://internationalbudget.org/what-we-do/major-ibp-initiatives/open-budget-initiative/), member of the Open Policy Network(https://openpolicynetwork.org/), Associate Organisation of FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe), Associate Member of Eclipse Foundation (https://eclipse.org/), Associate Organization of OW2 Consortium (https://www.ow2.org/) and local hub of MyData (https://mydata.org/hubs/).
Organisation Members
https://gfoss.eu/gfoss-member-organizations/