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Open Source Business Alliance

German non-profit organisation
Organization advocacy_group Q1544671

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
advocacy group, organization[4]
Official website
osb-alliance.de[9]
Short name
OSBA[13]
Legal form
Registered association (eingetragener Verein)[12]

Status and dates

Inception
2005, July 2011[7][8]
Replaces
Linux-Verband, Lisog[10][11]

Location

Headquarters location
Stuttgart[5]
Country
Germany[3]

People

Chief executive officer
Peter H. Ganten[6]

Relations

Member of
Ecma International[2]
More facts +2
Member count
+180, +235[14][15]
Social media followers
498 (356–498, n=4)[16][17][18][19]
🏷️ Also known as
en Open Source Business Alliance en OSBA ar تحالف الأعمال مفتوحة المصدر de Open Source Business Alliance e.V. de OSB Alliance de Open Source Business Alliance - Bundesverband für digitale Souveränität e. V. de Open Source Business Alliance – Bundesverband für digitale Souveränität e.V. zh 德国开源非盈利性发展协会
🔖 Identifiers · 16
Bing entity ID
8816e78c-5413-93d1-8f16-460df5a33208
Bluesky handle
osballiance.bsky.social
Domain name
osb-alliance.de
EU Transparency Register ID
198062214849-28
EU VAT number
DE240931660
European Unique Identifier
DEB8534.VR7217
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11bc6231qk
Impressum URL
osb-alliance.de
LinkedIn company or organization ID
osb-alliance
Lobby Register of the German Bundestag ID
R001317
Mastodon address
OSBA@social.osb-alliance.de
Mastodon instance URL
social.osb-alliance.de
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Privacy policy URL
osb-alliance.de
X (Twitter) username
osballiance
YouTube channel ID
UCAPSsB4peGfDksanlwnSF3g
YouTube handle
osballiance

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Summary

Open Source Business Alliance is an advocacy group[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . lobbyfacts.eu. Retrieved . lobbyfacts.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . Bundestag Lobby Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Bundestag Lobby Register. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Bundestag Lobby Register. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20w ago · Reclus · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Impressum URL → https://osb-alliance.de/impressum
    YouTube handle → osballiance
    Social media followers → {'amount': '+356'}, {'amount': '+413'}, {'amount': '+427'} +1
    Lobby Register of the German Bundestag ID → R001317
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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