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On 11 May 2012 it was reported: "European Parliament to share amendment web tool as open source". That announcement triggered the preparation of a meeting with EPFSUG to discuss the matter on 11 July. Hosted by MEP Marie-Christine Vergiat - and with participants both from the at4am-team and DG ITEC - patrons, members and supporters of EPFSUG came to the meeting to dig into the fundamental reasons for using free software in the European Parliament as well as the best way forward towards the publication and licensing of the source code of at4am - the Parliament's automatic tool for amendments.

The third EPFSUG meeting on 30 June gathered a handful of EP staff and assistants and a small crowd of Ubuntu evangelists and free software supporters from around Belgium.

MEP Olle Schmidt hosted a lunch meeting with EPFSUG Patron MEP Indrek Tarand and members and supporters on April 19 2011.

A sign put up at FOSDEM in February called for helping the EP to get out of lock in.