The Greek Free/Open Source Software Society (GFOSS) is a non-profit organization, was founded in 2008, today it consists of 29 Universities and Research Centers. Our main goal is to promote Openness through the use and development of Open Standards and Open Technologies in Education, Public Administration and Business in Greece.
We, therefore, aspire to become a platform for Open Standards Free Software, Open Content,Open Data & Open Hardware. The major Greek Universities and Research Centers are members of the GFOSS, while leading members of the Greek community of Open Technologies users and developers play a key role in the implementation of our policies. GFOSS is affiliated with Creative Commons, is a founding member of COMMUNIA and FAB LAB ATHENS, member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Network, Node of the Open Data Institute(http://
GFOSS also cooperates with the Enterprise Europe Network – Hellas in the ICT sector, with the aim to assist companies that provide Open Technology services. Nine members of GFOSS participate in GRNET“s project, FOSS Centers of Excellence, the centers deliver training activities for developing and promoting FOSS software in ten subject areas. GFOSS experts share extensive multidisciplinary experience in the development and operation of major transparency and public engagement projects in Greece. These include the projects on electronic deliberation for participatory decision making and open innovation and collaboration contests. To better coordinate and promote our projects we have established working groups, with more than 200 participants, each group drafts its own action plan using our WIKI.