Bram Buijs, board member of the Dutch Open Source Business Alliance, is joining the BeLibre meetup to tell us how DOSBA brought in 42 members in a single year and joined the European umbrella organisation APELL.

It’s a story spanning more than a quarter century of trial and error: DOSBA is the fourth Dutch attempt at organising the open source business sector. The first dates back to 1999. Why did the three predecessors fail, and why is DOSBA succeeding?

What can we in Belgium learn from this?

The talk closes with a wish from the Netherlands to Belgium. We’ll leave that one hanging for now.