Lithuania

LT: Education Ministry supports schools using GNU/Linux — published on Sep 30, 2008 Read comments (None yet): The Centre of Information Technologies of Education (ITC), part of the Lithuanian ministry of Education, is supporting schools using Baltix GNU/Linux, an Open Source distribution derived from Ubuntu and Debian.
LT: Failed Open Source desktop test at Vilnius city council — published on Oct 03, 2007 Read comments (None yet): The city council of Vilnius will not run new trials for an Open Source desktop, after failed tests in 2003. However, the city is increasing its use of Open Source for back end IT systems.
LT: ODF made national standard — published on Aug 16, 2007 Read comments (None yet): Open Document Format (ODF), the ISO approved standard for electronic office documents, was made a Lithuanian standard on July 31. The Lithuanian Standards Board recently published the ODF decision on its website.
LT: Lobbyists on ODF and OOXML lean on standardisation institute — published on May 09, 2007 Read comments (None yet): The Lithuanian Standards Board is under pressure from two groups favouring different software specifications for electronic office documents.