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Kroes on open source in public administrations: "Attitudes are changing" — published on Jul 13, 2010 Read comments (None yet): 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."
DE: CIO German government calls for open standards — published on Jul 07, 2010 Read comments (None yet): Germany's Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology, Cornelia Rogall-Grothe, wants to use open standards to ensure interoperability and independence from IT vendors, she says in an interview published by C'T magazine this week
Groups in eleven EU member states participate in Document Freedom Day — published on Mar 23, 2010 Read comments (None yet): 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.
DE: Rural district uses open source to manage IT at schools — published on Jan 31, 2010 Read comments (None yet): 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.
German government publishes XML converter on the OSOR Forge — published on Jan 29, 2010 Read comments (None yet): 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.
DE: Open source professorship at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg — published on Nov 30, 2009 Read comments (None yet): Germany's first open source professorship was established at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
DE: German government wants open standards and open source — published on Nov 09, 2009 Read comments (None yet): The newly elected German government plans to support open standards and open source software. In its four-year coalition contract, the government led by chancellor Angela Merkel, writes it wants to orient its IT systems on open standards and include open source solutions.
DE: Rate of government adoption of their software surprises Mozilla — published on Oct 30, 2009 Read comments (None yet): Representatives of the open source Mozilla project where pleasantly surprised this week, discovering that the city of Munich is making far more use of their software.
FR: Existing open source portal to be used by Paris region schools — published on Oct 30, 2009 Read comments (None yet): 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.
DE: Münster started OpenOffice pilot in schools — published on Sep 30, 2009 Read comments (None yet): The city of Münster has started a pilot using OpenOffice in schools. The city's IT department, Citeq, will also switch all of the 150 servers used in its primary and secondary schools over to GNU/Linux. Half of these have already been migrated to open source.
DE: Interior minister: 'Open source reduces vendor lock-in and monopolies' — published on Sep 22, 2009 Read comments (None yet): Using open source helps to avoid being locked-in by IT vendors and prevents IT services monopolies, says Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's minister of the Interior.
DE: Advocacy group targets German federal election candidates — published on Sep 14, 2009 Read comments (None yet): The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is asking political candidates for the German federal elections their positions on free software and open standards.
More health care organisations adopting open source — published on Aug 28, 2009 Read comments (None yet): Hospitals and health care institutions in the European Union are increasing their use of open source software.
DE: Open source business process design tool 'ready for public sector' — published on Jul 30, 2009 Read comments (None yet): The public sector can use open source business process management (BPM) tools such as the Bflow Toolbox, says Beate van Kempen, IT manager at the city of Düsseldorf.
DE: 'Public administrations' move to open source is gaining momentum' — published on Jun 30, 2009 Read comments (None yet): Germany's federal public administrations' use of open source IT solutions is gaining momentum, said Martin Schallbruch, Chief Information Officer of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, during a speech on the Berlin Open Conference that took place last week.
DE: Government reinforces open source resource centre — published on Jun 29, 2009 Read comments (None yet): Germany's federal Agency for Information Technology (BIT) is increasing its open source support to public administrations, according to representative attending the Linuxtag conference in Berlin last week.
DE: 'Certifying open source apps as medical product reduces liabilities' — published on May 25, 2009 Read comments (None yet): To use open source applications in health care, the software should be introduced as a certified medical product. This minimises liabilities for health care institutes using the application and for IT companies providing services on the software, says Stephan Popp a German IT engineer.
DE: City of Duisburg gives up its open source desktop plans — published on Apr 10, 2009 Read comments (None yet): The council of the city of Duisburg has reversed its decision of August 2007 to evaluate a move to open source for all of the desktop computers used by the administration.
DE: Library donates 250,000 photo collection to Wikipedia — published on Mar 31, 2009 Read comments (None yet): The state library of the German federal state of Saxony this Tuesday is donating a collection of 250,000 photographs to the online Wikipedia encyclopedia for use under the Creative Commons License.
DE: 'Public sector is Berlin's biggest potential for open source software' — published on Mar 25, 2009 Read comments (1 so far): Berlin's administrative sector and the presence in the capital of many public institutions, associations and political organisations offers great potential for open source, say researchers who analysed 150 open source businesses, researchers and advocacy groups active in the region. Their report was published last month.

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