About us

Who we are:

OpenIreland is an organisation which promotes the benefits of ICT solutions based on open standards and open source software for businesses and public bodies. Its members are drawn from businesses, developers, users and integrators.

Why this is important:

• This can deliver significant benefits to both public and private sector organisations, and to society generally.
• Prevention of Vendor Lock-in (and improved interoperability).

• Flexibilty Data Portability and Interoperability flexible and adaptable enhancing value of data by providing
• Cost Effectiveness
• Freedom to Innovate
• Draws on a repertoire of expertise of a worldwide community of contributors  to share freely.
• Global Market Interest

What we want:

OpenIreland supports organisations in Ireland that use or want to investigate benefits of software products that are available under open source licenses and do not impose lock-in on users.

What we do:

• Advocacy / promoting awareness. ISV, SI
  
• Skills matrix / directory
  
• Networking  - OpenIreland promotes awareness of (open standards and) open source software among service providers, user organisations in public and private sectors. ISV, SI, EU
  
• OpenIreland acts as an advocate for open source software and open standards in policy formulation and participates in national and EU initiatives (through OpenForum Europe) that affect the IT industry. ISV, SI, EU
  
• OpenIreland have participated in the development of Certified Open, a certification scheme for the software solutions and for IT professionals.
  
• Advisory role - knowledge base / directory to access open source resources (solutions, skills, training, advice etc).
  
• OpenIreland develops reference models for Irish user groups with special requirements and makes these models available to companies that supply IT services.
  
• Conference Representation
  

Contact us

email info@openireland.com