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.

opensourceinsurance.org is sponsored by Applied Industrial Logic, who also sponsor the development of OpenQuote.

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