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FI: Over a hundred schools using open source — published on May 13, 2010

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More than a hundred schools across Finland are using open source for all of their desktop PCs, according to Opinsys, an open source services provider.

FI: Finance ministry updates its tailored version of OpenOffice — published on May 13, 2009

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Finland's ministry of Finance is publishing an update of its localised version of OpenOffice. The tailored office application is this time also made available from the Osor website.

FI: City of Oulu publishes e-government platform as open source — published on May 12, 2009

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The City of Oulu is releasing the source code and the architecture documentation for its e-Government platform, the OmaOulu municipal portal.

FI: Government encourages open source use by public administrations — published on Feb 24, 2009

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The Finnish government wants the country's public administrations to increase their use of open source and open standards. On Monday the government published a policy document to help public bodies with procurement and deployment.

FI: Open Source resource centre joins Linux foundation working group — published on Nov 26, 2008

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Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions (COSS) this month became an associate partner of Fossbazaar, a working group of the Linux Foundation. The centre expects that joining this community will benefit its open source activities.

FI: 'Increase of open source use by companies spurs public administrations' — published on Nov 07, 2008

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Like Finnish companies, public administrations in Finland are increasingly turning to open source, says Matti Saastamoinen of the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions (COSS). "Their uptake is a little slower, but I expect them to speed it up in the next few years."

FI: City of Oulu: "Open Source offers very competitive alternative" — published on Oct 24, 2008

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Open Source delivers a very competitive alternative to proprietary solutions, says Jaakko Järvenpää, one of the IT administrators of the City of Oulu in Finland. Oulu recently began a portal to offer its citizens digital access to the city's services, based on Open Source.

FI: Three schools migrating to Open Source — published on Mar 27, 2008

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Three schools in Kauniainen, a city just to the west of Helsinki, Finland, are now using Open Source, runing GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu on 120 thin clients, providing access to 1200 users.

FI: Ministry of Justice migrates to OpenOffice — published on Jan 19, 2007

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The Finnish Ministry of Justice this month switched over to OpenOffice. It made ISO standard Open Document (ODF) the standard format for office files.