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OpenOffice.org in public authorities: Leuven University and the quest for accessibility
KULeuven releases second ODT converter.
EUPL: Matija Šuklje, coordinator of the FSFE Fellowship group Slovenia analyses the licence
Matija Šuklje, founder and coordinator of the FSFE Fellowship group Slovenia analyses the EUPL licence in the Linux Magazine
EUPL: The EU open source license allows for easy licensing of open source software under an EU legal framework, said Neelie Kroes, EC Vice President
The EUPL allows for easy licensing of open source software under an EU legal framework, said Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission and European Digital Agenda Commissioner, in her 12 July Youtube broadcasted speech
EUPL: The Government of Malta distributes OSS government solutions under the European Union Public Licence
The 1st June 2010 directive of the Government of Malta enables, where appropriate, the distribution of its public sector software under the EUPL.
OSOR: Improving you search with Microformats, Operator and Ubiquity
Improving interactivity with microformats while adding search functionalities
OSOR: OSOR.eu website improvements
In the recent weeks we worked hard to tidy-up the lay-out and improve the site's overall look and feel. We also added a number of new features.
Visitors will notice the change in the menus. These are now consistent across the entire site. Next we refreshed the front page, using for instance a banner showing our objectives and services and to point out our partners in the Member States.
Changes were also made to our expert studies and our case-studies. Visitors can find both types of studies under a single menu: studies.
We would like to highlight two new features:
We always welcome contributions from our users, who send us news, tell us about events or submit case studies. To emphasise this, the website now has dedicated buttons. That should make it easier to submit information. You can find these buttons on the news and event pages.
Second, OSOR.eu can now also alert members of the communities each time something is added to their community. The alerts can, for instance, tell a user that a visitor has added comments or asked a question.
We also hope we made life a little easier for the facilitators of these community sites. Whenever members add news or comments, the facilitators will be notified automatically.
Please tell us your what you think of our work. Your feedback is highly appreciated!
The OSOR.eu team
OSOR: Planned maintenance on April 27th
Dear OSOR user,
This Tuesday 27th of April evening the osor.eu and forge.osor.eu web sites will be down for a deployment and installation of a number of new and enhanced functionalities and design.
During the maintenance window all the services will totally be stopped. The platform will be inaccessible from 20:00 to 02:00. (CEST)
About the improvements
Apart from a new and more user-friendly graphical design of the site, two new functionalities will be introduced:
- Specific buttons for user contributions. Osor.eu welcomes the many contributions from its users, like news items, notifications on events or submissions of case studies. To emphasize this, and make it easier for users, specific and easy-to-use buttons will be added to the news and event pages.
- Second, OSOR.eu will have a new alert system for users. The website can then also alert members of the communities each time something is added to their community.
EUPL: Recommended licence in Spanish Royal Decree 4/2010 of 8 January 2010
On 8 January 2010, Spain has adopted the Royal Decree 4/2010 which implements the National Interoperability Framework planned in the eGovernment Law 11/2007. The framework has been developed with the participation of all Public Administrations (General State, Regional and Local governments - represented by one hundred experts) and of the ICT Industry professional associations. It provides that the EUPL will be provided for public sector software distribution. The Decree includes important provisions, especially Articles 16 and 17 related to the reuse of Public Sector software, the applicable licensing condition and the use of software repositories or forges.
OSOR: Final version of Procurement and Open Source Software Guideline published
The final version of the Procurement and Open Source Software Guideline has been published on OSOR.eu. The study, commissioned by the European Commission as part of the "Dissemination of good practice in Open Source Software (GPOSS)" measure under the IDABC programme, gives guidelines for public administration on how and why publicly acquire open source software.
Communities: FLOSS-Vortrag von Dr. Robert MATZINGER
Im März 2010 hielt Dr. Robert MATZINGER, Informatiker und Professor an der Fachhochschule Burgenland, einen Vortrag über freie Software, ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung und gesellschaftliche Bedeutung.
OpenOffice.org in public authorities: OASIS publishes draft "The State of ODF Interoperability Version 1.0" specification for public review
The OASIS Open Document Format Interoperability and Conformance (OIC) Technical Committee has recently published the draft version of "The State of ODF Interoperability Version 1.0" specification for public review
EUPL: Thinking on interoperability echoed on "OSS Watch"
Increasing interoperability between a circle of copyleft licences could be a progress, helping to solve incompatibility issues due to FLOSS license proliferation. the UK educational Web site OSS watch publishes the English version of our OSOR post.
FLOSS in Austrian courts: eGovernment services at EU level
at the Open World Forum in Paris on 2 October 2009
In the Communication "The role of Government for Europe's future, COM (2003) 567 final of 26 September 2003, eGovernment is defined as the use of information and communication technologies in public administrations combined with organisational change and new skills in order to improve public services and democratic processes and strengthen support to public policies.
eGovernment services and large-scale projects at EU level (examples):
EURES - European wide job search portal
PLOTEUS - European training opportunities database
SOLVIT - solving administrative obstacles in EU cross-border procedures
PEPPOL - Pan European Public Procurement Online Project
SPOCS - Simple Procedure Online for Cross-Border Services (pilot project)
EIS - European Interoperability Strategy
- adoption of the Interoperabilty Decision in July 1999 by the Council and European Parliament (1720/1999/EC) = IDA
- decision 2004/387/EC = IDABC ("Interoperable Delivery of European eGovernment services to public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens"). IDABC is managed by the European Commission's Directoraqte General for Informatics and is an eGovernment programme set up under the EU decision of 21 April 2004.
- SEMIC - "Semantic Interoperabilty Centre Europe" (shares interoperabilty assets and tools to save time and money)
The EU and Open Source
OSOR - the "European Open Source Observatory and Repository" - supports the sharing of FLOSS-based eGovernment applications and the use and re-use of publicly funded software across Europe. It is financed by the European Commission and managed by its Directorate General for Informatics. The symbol of the OSOR project which was kicked off in January 2007 is the bee. In the first month of operation, its website received more than 50,000 visits.
QUALIPS - the "Quality Platform for Open Source Software" - was founded at the end of 2006 and launched as an EU-supported IST initiative.
EUPL - the "European Union Public Licence" - has been approved as a licence to be used for the distribution of software developed in the framework of the IDA and IDABC programmes of the European Commission. This copy-left licence was officially adopted by the European Commission on 9 January 2007.
Dr, Herbert GASSNER
OpenOffice.org in public authorities: ODF plugfest, volume 3
You guessed it, it's time for ODF plugfest number three. Continuing their European tour, the ODF experts will perform their interoperability magic in Granada (Spain) on April 15, 16 and 17.
EUPL: 2010 - Menaces sur le Copyleft
Dans cet article (en français), P-E. Schmitz revient sur le manque d'interopérabilité entre licences copyleft, expliquant les menaces actuelles et potentielles que cela représente pour l'image et la durabilité du logiciel libre.
EUPL: Did you know that a web site is dedicated to the EUPL in Italy?
Prof. Flavio Bravo (University of Bologna) is maintaining a new web site dedicated to the EUPL (in Italian). The address? Simply www.EUPL.it !
EUPL: Licence Proliferation - The way out ?
Free / Open Source Software license proliferation has gone so far that companies are patenting proprietary software to solve it in the case of multi-source development process. Could copyleft license interoperability focus the F/OSS world on a handful of compatible provisions, relacing a culture of mutual exclusion by a culture of collaboration?
OSOR: OSOR@GvSIG 5th International Conference in Valencia
OSOR.eu was invited to participate at the 5th GVSIG International Conference in Valencia (02-04 December 2009).
OSOR: Planned maintenance this weekend
Dear OSOR users, the platform will be under planned maintenance from Friday the 18th at 18:00 to Saturday at 23:59 CEST.
EUPL: European OpenSource & Free Software Event (2009)
EOLE, the European OpenSource & Free Software Law Event (EOLE 2009) has taken place at the European Parliament – Brussels on 9 December 2009.
OSOR: Planned maintenance tomorrow (Friday the 27th) from 18:00 to 19:30 CEST
The platform will be under planned maintenance tomorrow (Friday the 27th) from 18:00 to 19:30 CEST. During these 90 minutes the OSOR team will modify the network configuration of the web server to include a bandwidth limiter. Due to these changes in the iptables configuration the platform may have small network outages during this period of time.
We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.
The OSOR team.
OSOR: Webinar: The Use of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) by Governments
OASIS invites you to attend a free, 30-minute webinar providing advice and guidance for the use of Free, Libre and Open Source Software by Governments (FLOSS). Date: 3 Dec 2009 Time: 15:00 UTC (17:00 Paris/11:00 Boston/8:00 San Francisco/16.00 Accra/23:00 Beijing). The webinar is hosted by the eGov Member Section and will be presented by two members of their Steering Committee, Charles Schulz and John Borras. This is one in a series of outputs that the Member Section is producing as part of its remit to promote the adoption and implementation of open standards that facilitate interoperability within and between government agencies and all of their stakeholders, and to stimulate the sharing of best practices and examination of use cases concerning the delivery of eGovernment services.
Centri di competenza open source (CCOS) italiani : Software Libero e Open Source: prospettive e progettualità per la regione marche e per le reti socio-economiche locali.
Un convegno che intende affrontare il rapporto tra Software Libero e Open Source (FLOSS), Pubblica Amministrazione e reti di economia locale, al fine di identificare strategie e una progettualità utili al contesto regionale marchigiano, usufruendo del contributo di esperti del settore e testimoni che hanno già attivato progetti e programmi nelle amministrazioni locali. L'evento è strutturato per fare in modo che vengano espressi gli aspetti generali del Software Libero e Open Source in relazione al panorama nazionale e le buone pratiche e processi per l'adozione sperimentati presso gli enti locali e le Pubbliche Amministrazioni.
OSOR: OSOR.eu @ ESA (european Space Agency) workshop on open source
OSOR.eu is an invited presentation at the ESA workshop on Open Source Software, at ESTEC in the Netherlands, 12/11/09.
OpenOffice.org in public authorities: Reports from the second ODF plugfest
The 2nd ODF plugfest took place in the beautiful city of Orvieto, just prior to OOoCon 2009.
OSOR: OSOR.eu at PGDay.eu
We'll talk about OSOR.eu today at the PGDay.eu 2009. This event has been conceived to spread the adoption and the developer community of the PostgreSQL RDMS in the European region.
Humanitarian FOSS: Humanitarian-FOSS common localisation project
Collaborative translation and localisation of humanitarian F/OSS
Humanitarian FOSS: Sahana Software Foundation
New legal body for the Sahana Disaster Management System F/OSS project
OSOR: OSOR at OOo Conference in Orvieto
OSOR.eu is invited to the OOo conference to participate in the workshop on European Competence centers, on November 6th.
