http://www.osor.eu daily 1 2008-03-31T10:55:39Z http://www.osor.eu/news/be-political-party-moving-to-a-complete-open-source-desktop Ecolo, a green political party in Belgium, is planning to complete its move to a complete open source desktop system by the end of 2011. On the 220 workstations in its main office, it will gradually replace the underlying operating system to Ubuntu Linux, says Sebastien Bollingh, the party's ICT manager. No publisher Desktop Environment [GL] Belgium OpenOffice OpenOffice.org and ODF in public authorities [T] Deployments and Migrations 2010-08-31T19:24:21Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-international-team-developing-open-source-hospital-information-system An international team of software developers specialising in medical systems is working on a hospital information system. Earlier this month on the OSOR Forge, the project began soliciting others to join the team. "If you are willing to participate in this great community, there are plenty of things to be done, from translation, quality control, adding new functionality to localization." No publisher Medical Science Apps. [T] Deployments and Migrations [GL] EU and Europe-wide national-forges-community [GL] Rest of the World 2010-08-31T19:28:10Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-rise-in-use-of-eupl-for-publishing-open-source-software The European Union's open source licence, (European Union Public Licence, EUPL) is being used more and more. A quarter of the projects available on the European Commission's software development site, the OSOR Forge, 47 out of 183 projects, are published using the EUPL. On Sourceforge, a commercial venture for open source software development based in the US, the licence is now selected by 49 projects. One year ago there were none. No publisher [T] Legal Aspects European Union Public License (EUPL) eupl-community [GL] EU and Europe-wide EUPL community 2010-08-31T19:15:09Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/uk-government-use-of-odf-would-help-break-vendor-lock-in A UK government's decicion to use ODF (Open Document Format) for its electronic documents, would help public administrations overcome vendor lock-in for office applications, says Liam Maxwell, councillor for Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead. He says the move will start the process to the billions of savings that British government needs to find in unproductive areas of spending. No publisher [GL] United Kingdom OpenOffice End Users/Desktop OpenOffice.org and ODF in public authorities [T] Deployments and Migrations 2010-08-30T10:27:30Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/ee-tallin-city-and-university-fund-poll-and-referenda-application Diara, an open source application allowing public administrations to us the Internet to organise polls, referendums, petitions, public inquiries and allowing to record electronic votes using electronic ID cards, is developed with support from the city of Tallin and the College of Technology in Estonia. No publisher eID Community [GL] Estonia eupl-community eid-community Internet EUPL community Authentication/Directory [T] Evaluations, Pilots and Studies European Union Public License (EUPL) 2010-08-30T08:54:41Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/fr-marseille-city-administration-cant-get-rid-of-vendor-lock-in The administration of the French city of Marseille is giving up its plans to decrease it's IT vendor lock-in. The move to OpenOffice is almost completed, but about 35 percent of all workstations are forced to continue to also run a proprietary office suite, because of applications that link exclusively to that suite's spreadsheet and text editor. No publisher OpenOffice End Users/Desktop OpenOffice.org and ODF in public authorities [T] Deployments and Migrations [GL] France 2010-08-27T11:44:39Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/es-andalusia-government-studying-switch-to-open-source-desktop The government of Andalusia, one of Spain's autonomous regions, is preparing to use a complete open source desktop environment. The analysis of requirements of such a desktop system is nearly completed, the next step will be a few small scale tests, according to a presentation by José Félix Ontañón, one of the software developers involved. No publisher OpenOffice.org and ODF in public authorities [GL] Spain Desktop Environment OpenOffice [T] Deployments and Migrations End Users/Desktop [T] Evaluations, Pilots and Studies 2010-08-27T09:54:56Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-university-publishes-braille-extension-for-openoffice The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium published odt2braille, a Braille extension to OpenOffice, a open source suite of office productivity tools, earlier this month. No publisher GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) OpenOffice.org and ODF in public authorities Desktop Environment OpenOffice [GL] Belgium [T] Deployments and Migrations End Users/Desktop 2010-08-24T12:37:24Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-municipality-of-modena-removing-vendor-dependency-office-tools The Italian municipality of Modena is well on its way to become independent from a major IT vendor for its office productivity tools, reports Laura Seidenari, instructor at the city's IT department. No publisher OpenOffice.org and ODF in public authorities Office Suites [GL] Italy Desktop Environment OpenOffice [T] Deployments and Migrations Office/Business Italian 2010-08-24T12:27:02Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-guide-on-procurement-of-open-source-revised The Guideline on public procurement of Open Source Software, was revised in June 2010. The latest version includes references to recent procurement policies developed by Spain and Malta and to this year's approval by Italy's constitutional court on the country's Piedmont regional administration procurement law. No publisher [T] General Topic [GL] EU and Europe-wide eupl-community [T] Deployments and Migrations [T] Evaluations, Pilots and Studies European Union Public License (EUPL) 2010-08-21T10:14:10Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/practical-guide-to-using-free-software-in-the-public-sector This guide refers to the french copyright law; however considerations on licensing are interesting for all. OSOR publishes an updated version (June 2010) No publisher European Union Public License (EUPL) 2010-08-03T14:08:14Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/at-increasing-number-of-schools-turn-to-open-source The number of schools in Austria that are considering to use or are using open source is increasing, according to school IT administrators and open source developers involved in education. No publisher [T] Deployments and Migrations Education [GL] Austria 2010-07-25T06:32:33Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-3.3-million-to-continue-projects-on-open-source-and-reusable-data The European Commission is planning to spend 3.344 million Euro until 2016 to continue the services provided by its projects - such as OSOR.eu and Semic.eu - on open source and on electronic data exchange. No publisher [T] General Topic [GL] EU and Europe-wide 2010-07-23T15:24:06Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/fr-defence-ministry-to-test-open-source-office-tools France's ministry of Defence will next year test open source office productivity tools, according to answers given by the ministry to written questions by Bernard Carayon, a member of France's parliament, about a framework contract with a proprietary software vendor. No publisher [T] Deployments and Migrations [GL] France 2010-07-17T07:57:26Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/es-involve-universities-and-local-tech-companies-when-moving-to-open-source Public administrations considering a move to open source, should make sure they involve universities and IT companies, said Martin Garcia, head of IT at the department for Infrastructure and Transport at the Valencia regional administration, yesterday at a conference in the city of Guadalajara, Spain. No publisher gis-software-community GIS/SDI Software Community OpenOffice.org and ODF in public authorities municipalities-community [GL] Spain national-forges-community [T] Deployments and Migrations local government geographic information systems 2010-07-15T10:24:52Z News Item