http://www.osor.eu daily 1 2008-05-05T13:14:00Z 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/bologna-achieves-vendor-independence-for-its-office-applications The administration of the Italian city of Bologna has almost completed its move to OpenOffice. Most of the 3600 PCs now run this open source suite of office applications. The administration is planning to move more applications to open source, aiming to become less dependent on specific IT vendors. No publisher OpenOffice.org and ODF in public authorities [GL] Italy municipalities-community OpenOffice [T] Deployments and Migrations local government 2009-12-08T10:46:34Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-open-source-key-to-software-re-use-of-public-administrations "Free and open source software enables more effective actions, with a very low cost, when financing small projects for public administrations", says Osvaldo Gervasi, president of Umbria's Open Source Competence Center (CCOS) and professor of Computer Science at University of Perugia. "This type of software is key to the re-use of applications by public administrations." No publisher [T] Deployments and Migrations [GL] Italy [T] Evaluations, Pilots and Studies [T] General Topic 2009-11-18T12:09:42Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/european-governments-help-increase-odf-interoperability Representatives from three European member states, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, took part in the second Open Document Format (ODF) interoperability workshop held in the Italian town of Orvieto at the beginning of this month. No publisher [T] Policies and Announcements [GL] The Netherlands [GL] Italy [GL] Belgium [T] Evaluations, Pilots and Studies [GL] EU and Europe-wide 2009-11-17T10:31:19Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-open-source-gis-tuscany-for-government-libraries-and-health-care The administration of the Tuscany region in Italy this month published a new version of Sagadb, an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) application. No publisher gis-software-community GIS/SDI Software Community [GL] Italy GNU General Public License (GPL) geographic information systems 2009-10-30T21:16:25Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-university-of-verona-moving-to-open-source-desktop The University of Verona in Italy started a three year program last January to migrate most of its more than 4000 PCs to open source. It is likely that the university will switch its PCs to GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu. No publisher [T] Deployments and Migrations [GL] Italy [T] Evaluations, Pilots and Studies 2009-08-06T14:04:55Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-italian-government-to-increase-use-of-open-source-in-schools The Italian government wants to increase the use of open source in schools. The Italian Ministry of Public Administration and Innovation, Renato Brunetta earlier this week announced two pilot projects in school in Rome. No publisher [GL] Italy [T] Evaluations, Pilots and Studies local government 2009-06-26T10:47:41Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-youth-department-city-of-modena-organises-open-source-classes The youth department of the public administration of the city of Modena is promoting school students' use of open source software. The department is working with a local training institute, which will start courses on open source this autumn, a local news web site reports. No publisher municipalities-community [T] Deployments and Migrations [GL] Italy local government 2009-06-04T11:48:41Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-statistics-institute-moving-to-open-source-increases-cooperation Moving to open source leads to increased cooperation between public administrations, says Carlo Vaccari, manager of software development at Italy's National Institute of Statistics, Istat. No publisher [T] Deployments and Migrations [GL] Italy [T] General Topic oss-and-statistics 2009-05-25T16:21:38Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-city-of-trento-moving-to-open-source-ip-telephony The administration of the Italian city of Trento is moving to an open source voice over IP (VOIP) telephone system based on Asterisk. No publisher municipalities-community [T] Deployments and Migrations [GL] Italy 2009-05-20T19:40:50Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-plonegov-italy-officially-launched 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. No publisher [T] General Topic [T] Policies and Announcements [GL] France municipalities-community [GL] Italy [GL] Spain [GL] Belgium PloneGov Plone 2009-05-15T15:47:18Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-democrats-want-public-administrations-to-favour-open-source Two parliament members of the Italian Democratic Party want Italy's public bodies to favour free software. By 2012 all IT systems should be based on such software, MPs Vincenzo Vita and Luigi Vimercati proposed in a bill last month. No publisher public sector [GL] Italy [T] Policies and Announcements 2009-04-22T12:03:06Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-small-open-source-grants-involve-public-bodies-and-schools Small grants can jump-start open source development projects that are useful for public administrations and schools and universities, a grant program in Italy's Umbria region shows. No publisher municipalities-community [T] Deployments and Migrations [GL] Italy [T] Evaluations, Pilots and Studies local government 2009-04-09T14:33:05Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-head-of-it-venice-region-open-source-wherever-appropriate "Open source applications needs to be used wherever appropriate, according to our regional law on information technology pluralism", said Bruno Salomoni, head of the IT department at the administration of the Veneto region in Italy, at a conference last week. He called on local public bodies to investigate how much of their software development may be reusable by other public administrations. No publisher [T] General Topic [GL] Italy local government 2009-03-17T14:35:31Z News Item http://www.osor.eu/news/it-open-source-it-system-management-software-is-mature Cmdbuild, open source software to manage the configuration of IT systems, is mature, says Antonio Scaramuzzi, head of the IT department at the administration of the Italian city of Udine. "Cmdbuild has made a jump in quality." No publisher [T] Deployments and Migrations [GL] Italy 2009-02-11T12:21:25Z News Item