opensourceinsurance.org has been founded with the aim of creating a community supporting the interests of the insurance industry within open source. It is our belief that insurance has been strangely overlooked by open source projects and that we can best address this by creating a home on the web for open discussions, news and system demonstrations.
The site is open and is run for the community as a whole without bias. If you know of, or are involved in, an insurance related open source project, please let us know so we can add the project's details to the directory. If you have comments on what is available, or what you would like to see being made available, post a message on the forums.
The term Open source usually refers to software that is released
with source code under a license that ensures that derivative works
will also be available
as source code, protects certain rights of the original authors, and
prohibits restrictions on how the software can be used or who can use
it.
Why should Open Source matter to insurance organisations? For the same
reasons that it matters to all commercial organisations: because there
is a solid business case for it.
In the first part of a 2 part article in EbizQ this month, Dennis Byron opens up the discussion on industry specific Open Source Solutions. The insurance industry gets a specific mention; as does OpenQuote which is listed in our directory. The article is available here. You do have to join their "gold club", but its free of charge.
To Quote Dennis:
"For open source software (OSS) to become more prevalent in the market, more industry-specific OSS is needed."
Most open source software does not cost money to use. Some programs charge subscriptions for support, documentation, or premium versions, but most are usable without paying a fee.
Open Source
Open source usually refers to software that is released with source code under a license that ensures that derivative works will also be available
as source code, protects certain rights of the original authors, and prohibits restrictions on how the software can be used or who can use it.
Simply create your log-in to the site and you can access the [User Menu]. From here select the [Submit a Solution] option. Once there fill in the required information and we will process your request as soon as possible.
