What's in it for you? 

By becoming an OSC member, you are making a wise investment in your company, and demonstrating a commitment to Open Source technologies and providing excellence in customer solutions to your clients.

OSC Membership is available to individuals, organisations and businesses with different membership levels (full, associate and individual).

Benefits for all members 

• Membership of OSC discussion lists, used for passing business between members, building relationships and passing on information.
• Access to OSC wiki.
• Special rates for OSC conferences & workshops
  
• All business opportunities coming into the OSC are seen by all members.
• The OSC promotes your interests with Government, the public sector, quangoes, the EU and the media.
  

Benefits for Associate and Full members

• Appear on the map  of members ("Find a company" from our home page)
• Appear on our member listing, along with a paragraph about you and a link to your website.
• Access to cut-price expo stands (e.g. stands at LinuxWorld 2006 were £500 for OSC members; prices started at £1000 for non-member companies).
• Highly competitive deal on Professional Indemnity Insurance

Benefits for Full members

• Priority listing on our website
• Opportunity to win business as part of an OSC mini-consortium or as a subcontractor where the OSC is the prime contractor.
• Where an OSC benefit has a limitation on numbers (e.g. cut-price expo stands), full members have priority. 

 The OSC :

• Exists to allow its members to bid for, and win, larger public sector contracts that might be out of the reach of individual members.
• Acts as a valuable forum for companies generating revenue from open source and open standards to benefit from each others' experience and knowledge.
• Lobbies government and other public sector organisations on behalf of members.
• Offers benefits to members by building links with other organisations inside and outside the open source community.

The OSC is a co-operative organisation, and the bigger and more active the membership, the more effective we will be.  The OSC is making real headway in establishing the benefits of  Open Source software and open standards in the public sector. Your support can only make us stronger.