● OSS Directory: www.ossdirectory.com● Swiss OSS Portal: www.opensource.ch● OSS Market: www.ossmarket.ch● CH OSS Awards: www.ossawards.ch ● Open Cloud Day: www.opencloudday.ch● Open Education: www.ossanschulen.ch● Open Manufacturing / Open Hardware

Swiss Open Systems User Groupwww.ch-open.ch

Largest Swiss association promoting open source and open standards.

● Founded 2009 by /ch/open● One out of two nonpartisan ICT lobbying groups● 7 core team members from national parliament● 44 members from the national parliament● 42 policy recommendations submitted● Dinners and open hearings about specific topics:

e-voting, public open source procurement, open government data, net neutrality etc.

● Funded by 8 open source providers

Parliamentarian Group for Digital Sustainability

www.parldigi.ch Political lobbying group for open source, open standards, open data etc.

● Founded 2014 with grant money from /ch/open● Academic research, education, and consulting on

digital sustainability, OSS, open data, open government, and ICT procurement, e.g.:● CAS course and research of ICT contracts

and vendor dependencies● student lectures on OSS research and open

data programming with open source tools● consulting for governments on OSS strategies,

alternatives to proprietary software etc.

Research Center for Digital Sustainabilitywww.digitale-nachhaltigkeit.unibe.ch

Academic hub at the Institute of Information Systems at University of Bern

European Software Freedom Policy Meeting - 29 January 2016, Brussels

Dr. Matthias Stürmer, matthias.stuermer@ch-open.ch, +41 76 368 81 65

Public policy priorities1. Migration on OSS

How can governments and firms switch from Microsoft et al. to OSS?→ City of Bern, Federal Administration etc.

2. Procurement of ICTGoal of sustainable procurement by decreasing vendor dependencies when procuring open source software (problem of non-bid contracts).→ Working group of public institutions has compiled OSS procurement checklist in German and translated it to English and French recently.

3. Release of OSSPolitical and legal issues when Swiss Federal Court published source code of OpenJustitia, a court decision management system.→ Legal expert report about situation in Switzerland coming soon

4. Crowd-funding of large OSS development activitiesSeveral public institutions are interested in funding specific OSS products, e.g. Scribus, QGIS and LibreOffice

European Software Freedom Policy Meeting - 29 January 2016, Brussels

Dr. Matthias Stürmer, matthias.stuermer@ch-open.ch, +41 76 368 81 65