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Greek municipality of Kalamarià installs LibreOffice

Posted on 17/01/2013 by Steve Woods

The free and open source advocacy organisation GreekLUG reports that the Municipality of Kalamarià near Thessaloniki in northern Greece is in the process of installing the free and open source LibreOffice productivity suite on all of the council’s 170 workstations. … Continue reading →

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Malta surveys open source use

Posted on 31/12/2012 by Steve Woods

Joinup, the EU’s public sector open source news site, reports that a survey to measure the popularity of open source amongst Maltese residents took place in early December. The poll was organised by MITA, the Maltese government’s Information Technology Agency. … Continue reading →

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Basque government unveils open source repository

Posted on 21/12/2012 by Steve Woods

Last Friday the government of Basque Country, one of Spain’s autonomous regions, unveiled its repository of open source software, openapps.euskadi.net, according to a report on Joinup, the EU’s public sector open source news website. Making its software solutions publicly available … Continue reading →

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Whitehall still struggling with openness

Posted on 17/12/2012 by Steve Woods

Courtesy of a news report today on governmental lists of open source alternatives to proprietary software on EU public sector open source news website Joinup, the chief scribe duly downloaded and read the Open Source Software Options for Government publication … Continue reading →

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Belgium willing to share open source voting software

Posted on 07/12/2012 by Steve Woods

One of the great benefits of using free and open source software is the manner in which it can be shared, modified and redeployed and the Belgian federal government certainly seems to have embraced this aspect. Joinup, the EU’s public … Continue reading →

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India’s ICFOSS organises survey of FOSS in e-governance

Posted on 19/11/2012 by Steve Woods

Today the Times of India reports that a study on the use of free and open source software in e-governance is to be jointly conducted by the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) of Trivandrum in Kerala … Continue reading →

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Swiss judicial authorities take flak for developing open source software

Posted on 23/10/2012 by Steve Woods

Whilst an ever increasing number of countries is deciding to give free software priority in public sector projects, an open source courts package is currently taking flak in Switzerland according to Germany’s Linux-Magazin. Some years ago the Swiss Federal Court … Continue reading →

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Sirius open sources Welsh school

Posted on 19/10/2012 by Steve Woods

Open source services provider Sirius Corporation has revealed today it has been working with Powys County Council to introduce a combination of Open Source and proprietary software at the newly refurbished Ysgol Maesydderwen secondary school in Ystradgynlais, near Swansea. The … Continue reading →

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12 years of open source use

Posted on 11/10/2012 by Steve Woods

The Portuguese local authority of Vieira do Minho in the far north of the country would appear to be an exemplar for the use of open source software for small local authorities everywhere, according to a report posted yesterday on … Continue reading →

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Election news – the open source angle 2: questions for the Bristol mayor

Posted on 03/10/2012 by Steve Woods

After looking over the Channel at the forthcoming Belgian local authority and provincial elections (news passim), we’re coming a bit closer to home. It cannot have escaped the attention of any Bristolian who hasn’t been in a coma for many … Continue reading →

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