Associate Organizations

Associate Organizations are entities, such as standards organizations, research institutions, academic institutions, open source organizations, publishing organizations and other organization types, which wish to support the aims and objectives of OW2. 

In a nutshell, Associate Organization are our official friends and supporters in the global marketplace.

Current Associates Organizations include:

Eclipse Foundation

Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services. More at http://www.eclipse.org/org/.

FOSSBazaar

A community for free and open source software governance. FOSSBazaar is an open community of technology and industry leaders who are collaborating to accelerate adoption of free and open source software in the enterprise. Specifically, FOSSBazaar aims to:

• Expand upon the open source value proposition for a richer, safer, less expensive, better overall IT experience.
• Focus on free and open source software governance best practices, education and tools.

More at https://fossbazaar.org/. 

The FOSSBazaar steering committee has approved and welcomed OW2 as an associate partner of FOSSBazaar.