http://www.osor.eu daily 1 2008-03-31T10:55:39Z 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 http://www.osor.eu/news/german-government-publishes-xml-converter-on-the-osor-forge Genericoder, an open source XML converter, has just been published by Germany's Bundesstelle für Informationstechnik (Federal Office for Information Technology) in Cologne. The application converts lists of csv code into XML files that are compliant to OASIS Genericode Version 1.0, but according to its developers can be adapted to carry out other transformations. No publisher [T] General Topic [GL] Germany [GL] EU and Europe-wide national-forges-community EUPL community European Union Public License (EUPL) 2010-01-29T11:08:33Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-public-administrations-portal-builder-adds-business-intelligence The Java Agile Portal System (jAPS 2.0), open source software designed to help Italy's public administration's build specialised websites, is about to get boosted with open source business intelligence (BI) options. No publisher [T] General Topic [GL] Other European Countries [GL] Italy 2010-01-28T16:00:26Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/es-open-source-gis-systems-to-be-used-by-spanish-wine-makers Wine makers in Spain will soon be able to use the gvSIG open source geographic information services developed in a large part with the help of several of Spain's public administrations. No publisher gis-software-community GIS/SDI Software Community [T] General Topic [GL] Spain 2010-01-27T17:01:00Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/pl-police-considers-moving-to-open-source The Polish Police force wants to increase its use of free and open source software in order to cut costs, announces Andrzej Trela, Deputy Chief of Police and responsible for logistics, in an interview in the Police force's monthly newsletter, published on 15 January. No publisher [T] Deployments and Migrations [GL] EU and Europe-wide [GL] Poland [T] Evaluations, Pilots and Studies 2010-01-27T21:09:47Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-open-universities-open-source-master-published-first-two-books The first two course books have just been published online for what is intended to become a university master programme on free and open source software and open standards. No publisher [T] General Topic [GL] EU and Europe-wide [T] Evaluations, Pilots and Studies 2010-01-19T09:58:14Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/commissioner-designate-digital-agenda-public-sector-should-use-open-standards The Commissioner-designate Neelie Kroes wants the public sector to increase its use of open standards, she said in her appearance before a European Parliament committee on 14 January. No publisher gis-software-community [T] General Topic public sector [GL] EU and Europe-wide [T] Policies and Announcements 2010-01-19T11:12:46Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/hu-open-standards-made-mandatory-for-public-administrations Open standards have been made mandatory for the IT systems of Hungary's public administrations. The Hungarian parliament voted in favour of amendments prescribing open standards, to a law on electronic government services, on 14 December. The changes received 197 votes in favour, one against and 146 abstentions, according to the Open Standard Alliance, a Hungarian advocacy group that lobbyed in favour of the amendments. No publisher [T] General Topic [GL] Hungary [T] Policies and Announcements 2010-01-15T09:12:22Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-european-parliament-restart-workgroup-on-open-source-software A number of members of the European Parliament are about to start an informal cross party working group on 'new media, free and open source software and open information society'. The intergroup is expected to begin in February, with the support of the European People's Party (EPP), the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (Alde) and the European Greens. No publisher [T] General Topic [GL] EU and Europe-wide [T] Policies and Announcements 2010-01-15T08:30:11Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/fr-french-military-contributes-code-to-mozilla-thunderbird The latest release of the open source email client Mozilla Thunderbird contains code from the French Military. The involvement of the Ministry of Defence with the free software email client goes back to 2006 when it defined requirements for added security features to Mozilla Thunderbird . No publisher collaboration [T] Deployments and Migrations [T] Technical Aspects [GL] France 2009-12-15T08:36:59Z News Item