--- title: Report From the EU Open Source Policy Summit url: "https://news.typo3.com/article/report-from-the-eu-open-source-policy-summit" description: 2023 showed us that it is important for TYPO3 to keep policy makers better informed. This event in Brussels, Belgium, was a source of new knowledge and a confirmation that our voice is needed. image: "https://news.typo3.com/_assets/d1e01514e4c4a5b3147940fa2ec50682/Images/og-image-news.jpg" date: 2026-06-11 modified: 2026-06-11 categories: - The Project --- # Report From the EU Open Source Policy Summit - [The Project](https://news.typo3.com/article/category/the-project) Report From the EU Open Source Policy Summit ============================================ 14 April 2024 ![](https://news.typo3.com/fileadmin/_processed_/f/0/csm_euopensource-IMG_5430_386cac148f.webp) 2023 showed us that it is important for TYPO3 to keep policy makers better informed. This event in Brussels, Belgium, was a source of new knowledge and a confirmation that our voice is needed. After sending our [joint letter to the European Union](https://news.typo3.com/article/march-2018-developer-appreciation-day-dad) concerning the [Cyber Resilience Act](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2024-0130_EN.html) (CRA), TYPO3 and our free and open source CMS friends benefitted from the work of [OpenForum Europe](https://openforumeurope.org/). The tenth installment of [their annual conference](https://summit.openforumeurope.org/) was a day packed with opinions and discussions relating to open source and the EU.  **[Mathias Bolt Lesniak](https://typo3.com/legal-notice#c339) and Daniel Homorodean attended the [EU Open Source Policy Summit](https://summit.openforumeurope.org)** in Brussels, Belgium, 2 February 2024, on behalf of the [TYPO3 Association](https://typo3.com/products-services) and the [TYPO3 Community Expansion Committee](https://news.typo3.com/article/leadership-changes-at-typo3-gmbh) and the [Meet TYPO3](https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/guide-contentandmarketing/main/en-us/Events/MeetTypo3.html) initiative. Mathias is the TYPO3 project ambassador and Daniel leads the Expansion Committee. See upcoming [Meet TYPO3 events](https://typo3.org/community/events/meet-typo3/all). ![](https://news.typo3.com/fileadmin/_processed_/2/8/csm_euopensource-1706861729778-cropped_46960564a9.webp) Important Discussions With TYPO3 Sponsorship -------------------------------------------- I joined the one-day event in Brussels together with Daniel Homorodean, leader of the [TYPO3 Community Expansion Committee](https://news.typo3.com/article/leadership-changes-at-typo3-gmbh), and [Crystal Dionysopoulos](https://volunteers.joomla.org/joomlers/114-crystal-dionysopoulos), president of the [Joomla](https://www.joomla.org/) project's legal entity, [Open Source Matters](https://www.opensourcematters.org/). We also met other CMS friends, such as TYPO3’s former community manager Ben van 't Ende from the open-source communication company [Age of Peers](https://ageofpeers.com/), and the chair of the [Dutch Drupal Association](https://www.drupal.nl/), Bert Boerland. The TYPO3-sponsored event was well-managed, with strictly timeboxed podium discussions interspersed with short presentations by sponsors and officials. With this setup, the organizers managed to fit in an astounding amount of topical diversity. **The afternoon was especially lively, with interesting topics and lighthearted exchanges on stage. You can [watch all of the sessions online](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSRZrrm1DwxBXS4rWO6030AFmhOmUFMI).** ![](https://news.typo3.com/fileadmin/_processed_/5/6/csm_euopensource-IMG_5451_b62772c763.webp) A Popular Venue for Exchanges With the EU ----------------------------------------- It is clear that the work with the CRA has not only been a wakeup call for us in the open-source community, but also made the EU's many bureaucrats and politicians understand us better. This is positive news and a good result after just half a year — although we are only at the beginning of a process involving many more pieces of legislation. Interest in the EU Open Source Policy Summit must have grown a lot lately. Getting a ticket to the physical event was not easy, with 150 attendees at the [Royal Flemish Theater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flemish_Theatre) in Brussels and maybe ten times as many joining online. I'm hearing they're looking for a bigger venue for next year. ![](https://news.typo3.com/fileadmin/_processed_/d/7/csm_euopensource-IMG_5460_04082dcc06.webp) CMSs Have an Important Role to Play Here ---------------------------------------- In my opinion, TYPO3 and open-source CMSs should continue to attend and support this event. It is a great meeting place joined by countless major open-source projects and foundations, as well as the public administrations and telecom and automotive companies that are also heavy users of open source software. If the EU creates a €10 billion fund to support open source, as was suggested during [*The Case for a big EU OSS Fund*](https://youtu.be/WThUgwjIanM?si=TudW_a6OWwxbW01W) session, it will certainly be thanks to events like this one and continued open-source collaboration with and around the EU. At this event and elsewhere, I heard many people state that “open source has won.” That is not true where I come from. I believe we can add important perspectives gleaned from our work, interfacing directly with the small and medium-sized business space, where open source is still far from universal. Additional contributors ----------------------- - Proofreader - ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/49aa12815610e985a3a94122712538f2.jpeg)Felicity Brand