Austria

AT: Increasing number of schools turn to open source — published on Jul 25, 2010

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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.

AT: Teachers and school staff are getting used to Internet tools — published on Jun 09, 2010

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A little over a hundred schools in the Austrian state of Salzburg are now using the Joomla open source content management system to host web sites for their schools and offer services to students and parents. But getting the staff and teachers comfortable with the Internet tools takes more time than anticipated, reports Christian Macher, one of the main IT administrators involved in assisting schools with their web sites.

Groups in eleven EU member states participate in Document Freedom Day — published on Mar 23, 2010

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In at least eleven EU member states, groups promoting the use of open standards and open source software, are preparing for Document Freedom Day, 31 March. With workshops, presentations and demonstrations, they aim to make computer users aware of open formats for electronic documents. Many groups will focus on public administrations and governments.

IT: Move to innovation park benefited South Tyrol's open source centre — published on Dec 11, 2009

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Making the Italian South Tyrol Free Software Centre (FSC) part of the Digital Technologies Area in the innovation centre in the Italian city of Bolzano, has given it the strength to support public authorities as well as companies in the region, says Patrick Ohnewein, head of the centre.

AT: Vendor dependency forces Vienna to renew proprietary office licences — published on Dec 10, 2009

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The administration of the Austrian capital Vienna is forced to spend 1.5 million euro on licences for proprietary office applications.

AT: Vienna to teach its public servants about open source desktop — published on Jun 26, 2009

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The city administration of Vienna will begin explaining its public servants about open source so they will better understand an eventual move to this type of software on the desktop, the city decided on Wednesday.

AT: Education ministry supports GNU/Linux distribution for schools — published on Jun 04, 2009

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With support from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (BMUKK), the third edition of a special version of a GNU/Linux distribution for schools has just been published.

AT: Education ministry no longer funds proprietary office licenses — published on May 15, 2009

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Schools in Austria are no longer compensated for software licence costs they make for office applications, as of the coming school year, starting this fall. Instead, the ministry of Education is promoting the use of the open source alternative OpenOffice, by paying 10 euro for each PC switched over.

AT: Vienna's City Leaders Keep Open Source Study Results Under Wraps — published on Apr 20, 2009

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The office of Vienna's city councillor Rudolf Schicker (SPÖ, Austria's Social Democratic Party) has called a halt to the publication of results from a second study into the application of open source software in the city's administration.

AT: New business network to track government's use of open source — published on Mar 03, 2009

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A new Austrian association for open source business will begin to keep track of how Austrian public administrations are using open source, hoping this will lead to an increase in the use of this type of software.

AT: Parliament wants public sector to use Open Source and Standards — published on Aug 31, 2008

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A majority in the Austrian parliament is in favour of encouraging the public sector to use Open Standards and Open Source software, according to a survey by the Austrian public broadcaster, (Österreichischer Rundfunk, ORF).

AT: Vienna to dual boot Linux PCs with Vista — published on Jun 05, 2008

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The Vienna city council this week decided to reconfigure 720 PCs running GNU/Linux and used in child day care centres in the city to also boot Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system.

AT: Education Ministry plans increase of Open Source in schools — published on Apr 29, 2008

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The Austrian ministry for Education wants to increase the use of Open Source software in elementary and primary schools.

AT: 'Vienna city council eyes Vista, not Wienux' — published on Feb 28, 2008

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The Vienna city council is considering to buy an upgrade to the next version of Microsoft Windows for its desktop PCs, instead of using the city's own Open Source desktop, Wienux, suspect Vienna's Green politicians.

AT: Wienux to switch to Kubuntu at year end — published on Jul 09, 2007

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The Vienna city government's open source desktop project will switch from GNU/Linux distribution Debian to the closely related Kubuntu at the end of the year. Kubuntu's pre-configured software packages will be easier to work with, expects Vienna IT architect Peter Pfläging.

AT: Open Source lobby group to target government and companies — published on May 08, 2007

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A group of Open Source companies is preparing to lobby the Austrian government to become more active in using Open Source software and using open standards such as the ISO-document standard Open Document Format ODF.