Zea Partners (Zea) is a non-profit business network for companies building open source solutions. Zea activities are focused on growing open source and open source business by pooling resources for collective action :

• Projects: expertize in international collaborative projects management as PloneGov
• Research: EU research, expertize about distributed organizations and collaborative models
• Promotion: articles, awards, references, press coverage, screencasts, weblogs

• Advocacy: EU policy, co-founder of OBOOE the European federation of the open source software industry

Network and technologies

Zea network includes founders of Zope, Plone and Silva along with prominent SMEs (Small/Medium-sized Enterprises) around the world.

Zope is a powerful and free application server for building CMS, intranets, portals, and custom applications. Plone and Silva are open source CMS that can be used to build corporate web sites, news sites, extranet servers or intranet, publishing system and documents repository, groupware tool, e-commerce, etc. All technologies are developed using Python a high-level programming language.