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FR: Marseille city administration can't get rid of vendor lock-in — published on Aug 27, 2010

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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.

FR: Defence ministry to test open source office tools — published on Jul 17, 2010

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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.

Kroes on open source in public administrations: "Attitudes are changing" — published on Jul 13, 2010

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Public administrations are improving their opinion on open source, finds Vice-President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes. In a video speech addressing an open source software conference taking place later this month, she says: "We do not yet have a true level playing field, but thankfully attitudes are changing."

Debate on government's use of open source and open data — published on Jun 14, 2010

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Public administration's using open source and open standards and governmental institutions that are making their data publicly available are two of the themes of this year's Open World Forum conference in Paris.

FR: Chamber of Commerce selects open source for craftsmen — published on May 22, 2010

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A DVD with a selection of free and open source software applications tailored to very small businesses (VSBs), was published by the Chamber of Commerce for Crafts and Trades of the French Somme Department, earlier this year.

FR: French Military contributes code to Mozilla Thunderbird — published on Dec 15, 2009

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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 .

FR: Award for open source tool to locate child emergency shelters — published on Nov 30, 2009

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UGO (Urgence Guide Orientation, emergency orientation guide) a collection of open source tools that allows social workers to quickly find available shelters for children placed under the care of the administration, received two awards last week.

FR: Advocacy group protests government's approving of OOXML — published on Nov 20, 2009

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April, a French free and open source software advocacy group, is protesting the French government's approval of Microsoft's OOXML as a government document standard, alongside the open document format ODF.

FR: Existing open source portal to be used by Paris region schools — published on Oct 30, 2009

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The 471 schools in the Paris region to be involved in the portal project that was announced earlier this month, will be using Eliot, web-based work-flow software that was originally developed for three schools in the same area.

FR: 130,000 PCs at tax authority to get open source email client — published on Oct 28, 2009

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All 130,000 desktop PCs at the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGPF) in Paris are to be switched to using the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email client, its Lightning calendar and the open source groupware application OBM, the French IT news site 01.net reports, citing a source familiar with the project.

France begins IT research centre on innovation and free software — published on Oct 12, 2009

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France's national computer science institute, Inria, says free software is essential to develop digital society. The institute is launching a research centre to focus on this type of software, Cirill (IT Innovation and Research Centre for Free Software).

FR: Paris region to launch open source workflow portal for schools — published on Oct 05, 2009

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The administration of the Paris region will build a on-line workflow system based entirely on open source software, to be used by all school students, teachers, parents and school administration, Jean-Baptiste Roger, IT adviser at the Paris regional council, on announced last Thursday at the Open World Forum taking place in the French capital.

FR: 'Governments should make their public data available on-line' — published on Oct 02, 2009

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Governments should make their public data available on-line to all, Jean-Louis Missika, deputy mayor of Paris said on Thursday. Such data could be used to create real time services and geo-location services.

FR: "Almost entire public sector is using open source' — published on Sep 30, 2009

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Almost the entire public sector, 96 percent, is using open source, says a French market survey. The most used applications are database management systems and content management systems.

The French navy to use open source project management platform — published on Sep 25, 2009

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The French navy is moving to the open source project management software Codendi for its software development. The software forge is also intended to help programmers adhere to development standards.

More health care organisations adopting open source — published on Aug 28, 2009

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Hospitals and health care institutions in the European Union are increasing their use of open source software.

FR: Pic st Loup moves to open source cemetery management application — published on May 20, 2009

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The French municipality of Pic St Loup, just north of Montpellier, is the most recent of more than two hundred public administrations using OpenCimetiere, an open source application for managing for managing concessions at cemeteries.

IT: Plonegov Italy officially launched — published on May 15, 2009

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The Italian chapter of Plonegov, an international project to develop open source e-government applications using the Plone open source content management system, was launched officially today at a conference in Sorrento, in southern Italy.

FR: Gendarmerie saves millions with open desktop and web applications — published on Mar 06, 2009

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The French Gendarmerie's gradual migration to a complete open source desktop and web applications has saved millions of euro, says Lieutenant-Colonel Xavier Guimard. "This year the IT budget will be reduced by 70 percent. This will not affect our IT systems."

FR: City of Marseille uses open source CMS for new website — published on Feb 25, 2009

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The city of Marseille uses the open source content management system Lutèce for its new website, reports Toolinux, a French news site on open source.