Open Synergy Project was founded in October 2007 by Sebastian Żurek as an answer to the a law firm asking for a software that would help it to manage its clients, curt cases, documents database and the employees work time.

It is written it with Python using wxPython as a GUI library. The software was designed to be build of the two main layers: the core and the extension modules (clients, cases, documents, etc.) . The idea was motivated by Drupal: Open Synergy Project is meant to be a desktop application framework (the core) and the extension modules that would complement each other in a synergy process. That's what explains the project name.

The core (called OpenSynergy) is build at the top of MVC scheme and provides API for databases connections (now it handles PostgreSQL with psycopg2 and SQLite with sqlite3), (program) users authentication and access, different visual interface styles, shared common GUI widgets, and a framework for building extension components.

The extension components may implement a user interfaces or just a API that can be used by other components. The extensions use OpenSynergy framework that is being developed to allow to create custom applications (e.g. CRMs) easily.

Open Synergy Project is run by Sebastian Żurek, an owner of small Polish IT company called CodeLab and a junior member of research staff at University of Zielona Góra. There are currently four active developers involved (in alphabetic order):
- Grzegorz Hoszko devoting his valuable spare time (when not working for DEGA Software Development) to Open Synergy;
- Krzysztof Krzeszowski, heavy loaded (Ph.D. soon) junior researcher at University of Zielona Góra;
- Maciej Sznajder, student at Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at University of Zielona Góra;
- Sebastian Żurek, the project author.