About usWhat is Oscon?
The project was founded on October 12, 2004, with the publication of the standard contract template on one of the most important thematic websites of that time. Since then, numerous bytes have traversed the backbones, and Oscon has expanded: the official website, the Osconian community, the support forum, and much more have been established. Dozens of sources have republished it, and thousands of individuals, companies, and public administrations use it every day. Why was the Oscon contract created?For the same reason it is widely used today: there was nothing similar. The project was born from an idea as simple as it was innovative: to help navigate the contractual management of employment relationships, often complex, bureaucratic, and costly, in a simple, free, rigorous, and concrete way. The contract model was written through legal study, stealing time from university exams, and then developed over the years with the help of professionals, legal experts, and commercial law jurists. It was made modular and published online under an open license. Given its success, the support forum and this official support website were created shortly thereafter (2007). In addition to being distributed as an attachment to national books and magazines (such as Wired and Rolling Stone), the contract has also been discussed or cited in theses, university courses, scientific articles, publications, and some books (including "L'Iva funesta," UTET; "Professione ghostwriter," Bruno Editore; "Professione web designer freelance," YIW; "Guida alla realizzazione di un sito dalla A alla Z," Your Inspiration). It has also been a teaching topic in high schools (such as Liceo B. Pascal in Rome) and universities (University of Bari). External links and references |
Oscon (acronym for Open Source Contract) is a non-profit legal project that publishes the homonymous contract model and provides pro-bono legal consulting. Oscon is the most widely used open contract in Italy, with over 200,000 copies and ten million visitors to the forum.