The Open Source Consortium (OSC) is the trade body representing the Open Source business community in the UK. The Aims and Objectives of the OSC are:-

• To promote wider adoption of Free/Libre Open Source Software (“FLOSS”) and open unencumbered standards (“Openness”) in all sections of UK society
• To identify barriers to the adoption of FLOSS and Openness working to remove them though awareness raising
• To increase member revenue by creating opportunities for members to tender for and participate in commercial contracts.
• To represent the interests of members in the media and through lobbying.
• To achieve such other objectives as the membership decides.
• To work with other national and international organisations with compatible aims and objectives

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