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Spain: Extremadura to migrate 40,000 public sector desktops to Debian
Spain’s Publico recently reported (Spanish) that the autonomous regional government of Extremadura is planning to move all 40,000 of its desktops to Debian Linux. In taking this step, Extremadura would be the leading Spanish public sector organisation for the use … Continue reading
Posted in International IT News, Open Source News
Tagged #ossplease, #ukgovOSS, Debian, free software, Linux, open source
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Joining open source communities should be a requirement for public sector open source use
Karel De Vriendt, a recently retired European Commission official previously involved in the Commission’s policies and activities involving open source software, has recommended that public sector organisations using open source software should join the associated open source communities, or require … Continue reading
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Tagged #ossplease, #ukgovOSS, open source
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Public sector open source quote of the week: “EU laptops should have LibreOffice or OpenOffice”
But who said it? According to Joinup, it was Christian Ude, the Mayor of Munich, whose local authority is a European leader in the deployment of open source by the public sector in general and local authorities in particular. It … Continue reading
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Tagged #ossplease, #ukgovOSS, free software, Linux, ODF, open data, open source
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Helsinki city officials report high satisfaction with free software office suite
As the council in our home city moves away from its previous open source office suite (Star Office) to the dark side (aka Microsoft Office. Ed. ), news reaches the blogmeister’s inbox via the Free Software Foundation Europe reporting on … Continue reading
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Tagged #ossplease, #ukgovOSS, free software, Linux, ODF, open source
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Public sector? Use open source? Take the survey
Are you in the public sector and do you use or contribute to free and open-source software for e-Government? If so, Joinup asks you to take this survey. The survey is enquiring about the policies for sharing and reusing free … Continue reading
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Tagged #ossplease, #ukgovOSS, free software, open source
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DWP to pilot open source desktops
Well, who’d have believed it? (The blogmeister wouldn’t have for starters! Ed.) The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is to trial open source desktop software in a move which could pave the way to the large-scale deployment of … Continue reading
Italy – free software in Sicily
The regional assembly of the Italian island of Sicily is to consider a law encouraging the public sector to use of free and open source software, OSOR reports. The bill was presented last month by Democratic Party member Massimo Ferrara. … Continue reading
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Tagged #ossplease, #ukgovOSS, free software, open data, open source
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Government issues invitation to tender for free software support
Yes, you did read the headline correctly. However, the government in question is not Her Majesty’s but that of la belle France, which has just issued an invitation to tender for free and open source software support to the amount … Continue reading
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Tagged #ossplease, #ukgovOSS, free software, Linux, open source
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UK government publishes open source toolkit
In the past we have been somewhat critical (with the aim of encouraging a bit more action, we hope. Ed.) of the UK government’s attitude to and adoption of open source (news passim). However, today we’d like to draw attention … Continue reading
Posted in National IT News, Open Source News
Tagged #ossplease, #ukgovOSS, ODF, open source
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Belgium: public sector locked into MS Office
The desktop IT systems of many public sector organisation in Belgium are ‘completely locked-in by one proprietary office suite’, public IT administrators said at an open source conference, which took place recently in Schoten (sounds familiar doesn’t it? Ed.), according … Continue reading
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Tagged #ossplease, #ukgovOSS, open source
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