Open Source support and coherent joint software development is a very important initia-tive for ensuring strong integration, network survivability and transfer of technology de-veloped within the network. In the management community, many Open Source com-ponents have been produced over the years, some of them being widely used today for several purposes. Recent evolutions in management and networking technologies how-ever did slow the use of these very valuable software components and the rhythm of new productions has decreased drastically. From the very beginning, EMANICS part-ners did recognize the need to support the Open Source initiatives in the area of man-agement to foster again their use and acceptance on large scale. This document is an interim report of the activity undertaken in work-package 6 for in-creasing the availability, visibility and acceptance of Open Source software in the area of device, network and service management. It describes (1) the efforts made in collect-ing data on available software, making this data available to the public in an homoge-neous and open way and (2) the efforts supported by EMANICS on the development and/or extensions towards broader acceptance and dissemination of Open Source components that emerge from the EMANICS community.