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28th March is Document Freedom Day

Posted on 16/03/2012 by woodsy

This year’s Document Freedom Day, which celebrates information accessibility and raises awareness of Open Standards, will take place on Wednesday, 28th March. Here in Bristol Wireless, we’ve been using the Open Document Format (ODF) Open Standard for exchanging documents internally … Continue reading →

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Spain – over half of central government using open source

Posted on 15/03/2012 by woodsy

Cenatic reports that ONFSA – the National Observatory for Open Source Software – has published its 2011 public sector open source software use survey. According to the survey, which covered 198 central government bodies, most of Spanish central government organisations … Continue reading →

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Latest CiviCRM release – now with WordPress integration

Posted on 11/03/2012 by woodsy

The latest release (version 4.1.1) of CiviCRM, the open source customer relationship management (CRM) system for non-profits, NGOs and advocacy organisations, now features integration for WordPress, in addition to its traditional integration for the Joomla and Drupal content management systems. … Continue reading →

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Denmark’s Transport Ministry moves to LibreOffice

Posted on 09/03/2012 by woodsy

Denmark’s Transport Ministry has moved to the open source LibreOffice productivity suite as part of a package changes intended to help it save DKr. 1.5 mn. per year on its IT costs. However, a spokesman for the Ministry has stated … Continue reading →

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VALO-CD Finnish free & open source goodness

Posted on 05/03/2012 by woodsy

We Linux users are spoilt; we benefit from using free and open source software every day. Now Windows users can once again* benefit from it more, with the launch of the VALO-CD (VALO is the Finnish acronym for Free & … Continue reading →

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FSF invites you to enter the Restricted Boot Comic Contest

Posted on 01/03/2012 by woodsy

Earlier today, your ‘umble correspondent (are you really a letter writer composed entirely of deer offal? Ed. ) received the email below from the Free Software Foundation. In December, Microsoft apparently conceded to public pressure by quietly updating the Windows … Continue reading →

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LibreOffice conference to be held in Berlin

Posted on 28/02/2012 by woodsy

It’s been announced today on The Document Foundation’s blog that Berlin in Germany will host this year’s LibreOffice Conference. The Document Foundation members jointly decided on the location for their conference in a public poll that closed last week, whose … Continue reading →

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Open source is of better quality than proprietary software

Posted on 27/02/2012 by woodsy

The H-Online reports that Coverity’s latest Coverity Scan Open Source Report has found that the quality of open source code is equal to, or even better than that of proprietary software. All told, Coverity analysed over 37 million lines of … Continue reading →

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Rotterdam mental health provider implements 290 user LTSP suite

Posted on 22/02/2012 by woodsy

EZPress (Dutch) and Joinup report that at the end of last year Rotterdam mental health provider Riagg Rijnmond replaced its ageing proprietary desktop systems with a 290 user LTSP thin client system based on Xubuntu (that’s Ubuntu coupled with the … Continue reading →

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Greece: open source computer lab donated to children’s centre

Posted on 22/02/2012 by woodsy

Greeklug, the Greek free software advocacy group, has donated a free and open source software computer lab to a children’s shelter in the village of Filyro, north of Thessaloniki, Joinup reports. Apart from providing installation and hardware, the group is … Continue reading →

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