Initiatives launched in OSP since July 2014
A review of what the community had built since the first conference.
OSP2 · 2015
Bringing it into Being
The sequel to Bellagio, where the community set out to turn a shared mission into ten concrete initiatives.
OSP2 was a meeting for researchers, funders, NGOs, industry professionals, philanthropists and entrepreneurs who want to create improved ways to bring therapeutics to market in the 21st century. Open source brings the promise of efficient, robust and inclusive routes to discovery.
A conceptual framework and mission statement had been created in Bellagio, and OSP's campaign of “Medicine for All” reached over 300,000 people. The task in Germany was to bring a sustainable OSP initiative into being through specific, targeted projects that could demonstrate this new way.
First mentioned in 750 AD, Castle Rauischholzhausen was sold in 1873 to the German diplomat and industrialist Ferdinand von Stumm, who competed with his brothers to build the most beautiful castle.
What the OSP2 programme set out to do.
A review of what the community had built since the first conference.
New participants presented their own open source work and where it could connect.
Can open source be combined with new financial models of research and development?
Working through the legal frameworks that let open source medicines reach patients.
An honest accounting of the barriers still standing in the way.
A specific initiative was launched in the days leading up to the conference, followed by calls for donations of resources — molecules, expertise, pro bono time and funding — during the meeting.
36 people took part in OSP2.
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