http://www.osor.eu daily 1 2008-03-31T10:55:39Z http://www.osor.eu/news/si-complaint-over-government-purchase-of-proprietary-software 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. No publisher [GL] Slovenia national-forges-community local government [T] Legal Aspects 2010-03-08T16:14:04Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-osor-user-survey-part-of-thesis-on-governmental-open-source-use 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. No publisher [T] General Topic [GL] EU and Europe-wide [T] Evaluations, Pilots and Studies 2010-02-26T20:22:54Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/de-vendor-independence-a-non-issue-in-consolidation-of-government-it 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. No publisher [T] General Topic [GL] Germany 2010-02-26T13:57:06Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/spanish-governments-adds-software-development-site-to-osors-list 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. No publisher [T] Deployments and Migrations eupl-community [GL] EU and Europe-wide [GL] Spain European Union Public License (EUPL) 2010-02-26T07:17:09Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/nl-vendor-lock-in-frustrating-open-open-source-desktop-projects 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. No publisher OpenOffice.org and ODF in public authorities [GL] The Netherlands municipalities-community OpenOffice [T] Deployments and Migrations Office Suites Office/Business 2010-03-01T10:19:43Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/encoding-tool-to-speed-up-workflow-of-aid-organisations 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. No publisher Java [GL] EU and Europe-wide eupl-community eid-community [T] Deployments and Migrations EUPL community eID Community European Union Public License (EUPL) 2010-03-01T09:49:25Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/es-galician-government-launches-a-promotion-campaign-on-open-source 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. No publisher municipalities-community [T] Policies and Announcements [GL] Spain local government 2010-02-15T11:33:16Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/cz-open-source-to-fix-mandatory-e-governments-service 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. No publisher GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) eID Community [GL] Czech Republic [T] Technical Aspects national-forges-community [T] Deployments and Migrations eid-community Authentication/Directory GNU General Public License (GPL) 2010-02-12T14:41:17Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/es-valencia-migrates-three-open-source-gis-tools-to-osor 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). No publisher Software Development gis-software-community GIS/SDI Software Community [GL] EU and Europe-wide [GL] Spain national-forges-community [T] Deployments and Migrations GNU General Public License (GPL) geographic information systems 2010-02-11T10:07:32Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/two-thousand-open-source-applications-for-the-public-sector 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. No publisher [T] Deployments and Migrations public sector [GL] EU and Europe-wide [T] Policies and Announcements 2010-02-03T12:13:40Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/administrations-sponsor-extension-of-open-source-network-monitoring-tool Several public administrations in Spain are sponsoring the development of Zorb, an open source extension to Nagios, an open source network monitoring tool. Zorb allows users to fine-tune the processing of events generated from the monitored instances, hosts and services. Zorb has just been published on the OSOR Forge. No publisher [T] General Topic [GL] EU and Europe-wide LDAP [GL] Spain national-forges-community Spanish Security GNU General Public License (GPL) 2010-02-01T11:46:33Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/de-rural-district-uses-open-source-to-manage-it-at-schools The rural district (Landkreis) Wittmund in northwestern Germany is using GNU/Linux to centrally manage computers usage at eleven of its schools, reports Univention, one of the open source IT companies involved in the project. No publisher [T] Deployments and Migrations Education [GL] Germany [T] Evaluations, Pilots and Studies local government 2010-01-31T15:59:09Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/uk-government-tightens-procurement-demands-in-open-source-policy The government of the United Kingdom earlier this week published a revision of its open source action plan. Key changes are on procurement, the cabinet says. No publisher [GL] United Kingdom [T] Policies and Announcements 2010-02-01T10:08:50Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/dk-danish-state-administrations-to-use-odf The Danish parliament and the Danish minister for Science this morning agreed that the Danish state administrations should use open standards, including the Open Document Format (ODF), starting on 1 April 2011. A formal vote on the agreement is planned for next Tuesday. No publisher [T] Policies and Announcements [GL] Denmark Office Suites OpenOffice.org and ODF in public authorities [GL] EU and Europe-wide 2010-02-01T17:26:42Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/management-tools-for-smes-published-as-open-source-by-spain Comerzzia, tools that can help small and medium enterprises to manage their offices and points of sales, has just been released as open source by Centatic, the Spanish government's resource centre on open source and open standards. No publisher [T] General Topic End Users/Desktop [GL] EU and Europe-wide [GL] Spain 2010-01-29T11:10:57Z News Item