I’ll keep you posted here.

I believe there is a need for an European-level open source professional organization, focussed on software developers (ISV).

See for instance what we started 7 years ago with the (now defunct) Eurolinux Alliance:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000815093038/http://www.eurolinux.org/

“The EuroLinux Alliance for a Free Information Infrastructure is an open coalition of commercial companies and non-profit associations united to promote and protect a vigourous European Software Culture based on Open Standards, Open Competition and Open Source Software such as Linux. Corporate members or sponsors of EuroLinux develop or sell software under free, semi-free and non-free licenses for operating systems such as GNU/Linux, MacOS or Windows.”

(Of course, now the focus should be more on open source and open standards, and less on Linux).

See also this page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040830121253/www.eurolinux.org/members/index.en.html

for national open source organization that were part of the alliance at the time:

French Speaking Association of Users of Linux and Free Software,
Association Pour la Recherche en Informatique Libre,
Associazione Software Libero,
Europe-Shareware.org,
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure,
German Unix User Group,
Asociación de Usuarios Españoles de GNU/Linux,
Ενωση Χρηστων και Φιλων Λινοuξ Ελλαδας,
ANSOL.org,
Electronic Frontier Finland,
Association pour les Libertés Électroniques,
Linux-Verband,
SSLUG.dk,
Verein zur Förderung Freier Software,
Vereniging Open Source Nederland,
LiLux — Linux User Group of Luxembourg.

Cheers,

S.