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A survey aimed at public administrators using the Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR.eu) will be made part of a larger research into public organization's use of open source.
Czech student Viktor Hollmann, a PhD candidate at Korea's Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Kaist) in Daejeon, hopes that his survey will help determine if open source is beneficial for citizens, enterprises and taxpayers.
Hollmann is asking OSOR users to fill out his survey, which will be available until the end of March. It contains only 39 questions, he writes in his introduction: "It should take about fifteen minutes to complete."
The results of the survey will be published on OSOR.eu.
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New web conference tool from OSOR.eu
Dear OSOR.eu users,
We are proud to announce the launch of a web conference service for our registered users as part of the process to increase the number of good quality services offered. The service is based on DimDim, an open source software. Please note, that our web conference service is still in beta version, and thus is limited to only five users for each session but we believe this limitation can soon be abolished and that it will soon become an efficient tool for all the OSOR communities and projects.
This new service will allow you to discuss, share and collaborate on a more efficient way. You will also be able to show, share and discuss presentations and other documents, collaborate with different tools like whiteboard, public or private chats, talk, video broadcast via a webcam and much more. We would like to invite you to follow the link in order to read more about this new service and how to reserve your Web Conference.
The OSOR.eu Team
OSOR News
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SI: Complaint over government purchase of proprietary software
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Mar 08, 2010
Read comments (None yet) - Slovenia's court of Auditors and Slovenia's anti-corruption authority have received an anonymous complaint regarding the government's procuring of proprietary software licences for computer operating systems and office applications, Slovenian media reported last Month.
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EU: OSOR user survey part of thesis on governmental open source use
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Feb 26, 2010
- A survey aimed at public administrators using the Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR.eu) will be made part of a larger research into public organisation's use of open source.
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DE: 'Vendor independence a non-issue in consolidation of government IT'
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Feb 26, 2010
- Germany's federal government last December announced that it wants to consolidate several of its IT departments, in order to cut costs and reduce power consumption. Vendor independence is not mentioned, according to Silicon.de, a German IT news site.
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Spanish government's adds software development site to OSOR's list
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Feb 25, 2010
- The Spanish government's Technology Transfer Centre (CTT) is the newest name on the list of federated open source software sites in the European Union.
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NL: Vendor lock-in frustrating open source desktop projects
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Feb 25, 2010
- Vendor lock-in is forcing two municipalities in the Netherlands to stick to using proprietary office applications and other desktop software. The city of Amsterdam is saying it's move to open source on the desktop cannot be realised any time soon. The city of Heerenveen has canned its migration to OpenOffice.
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Encoding tool to speed-up workflow of aid organisations
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Feb 23, 2010
- A tool intended to make it easier for aid organisation to electronically exchange proposals and reports with the European Union's Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) was published as open source earlier this month at the OSOR, the EU's Open Source Observatory and Repository.
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ES: Galician government launches a promotion campaign on open source
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Feb 15, 2010
- The government of Galicia, one of Spain's autonomous regions, wants to boost the use of free and open source software by its public administrations and citizens. The regional ministry for Modernisation and Innovation aims to bring together its previous initiatives on open source, it explains in a statement published on 27 January.
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CZ: Open source to fix mandatory e-government's service
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Feb 12, 2010
- At least three open source projects in the Czech Republic are working to allow platform independent access to the government's electronic message service. The mandatory service, called 'Datove schranky' (Data boxes) is currently only accessible on computers running Microsoft's proprietary operating system.
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ES: Valencia migrates three open source GIS tools to OSOR
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Feb 11, 2010
- The ministry of infrastructure and transport in Valencia, one of Spain's autonomous regions, last week began migration of three of its open source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications and projects to the European Union's Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR).
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Two thousand open source applications for the public sector
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Feb 03, 2010
- The European Union's Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR.eu) as of today is offering public administrations access to more than two thousand free and open source applications.
