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PL: Police considers moving to open source — published on Jan 27, 2010

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The Polish Police force wants to increase its use of free and open source software in order to cut costs, announces Andrzej Trela, Deputy Chief of Police and responsible for logistics, in an interview in the Police force's monthly newsletter, published on 15 January.

PL: Interior ministry supports open source group's procurement project — published on Dec 11, 2009

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The undersecretary of Poland's Interior Ministry, Witold Drożdż on 2 December became the honorary patron of a project on 'sound and transparent procurement tools', an information campaign by the Polish Foundation on Open and Free Software (Fwioo).

PL: Jaworzno moves schools to open source desktops — published on Jul 14, 2009

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The Polish municipality of Jaworzno is migrating all schools to open source. Money saved in this way will be used to increase the number of computers for use by the students, reports Osnews.pl, a community-based IT news site.

PL: Mniów's move to open source desktop required no user training — published on Mar 16, 2009

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The move to open source desktop applications by the city administration of Mniów, a village in the southwest of Poland, required no user training, says Aleksander Podsiadły, the village's IT administrator up until last month, in an interview with the Polish open source community website Jakilinux.

PL: Open standards definition in IT policy to be weakened — published on Feb 19, 2009

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The Polish Ministry of Interior and Administration is considering to weaken the definition of open standards in its new Information Technology Development Act (ITDA). 'Open source standards' is to be replaced by a vague concept of 'technological neutrality', Polish open source news sites report.

PL: Mniów district: "Using open source saves public resources" — published on Jan 13, 2009

The administration of the Polish district of Mniów has been using open source applications for several years, reports Jakilinux, a Polish news site on open source on 6 January.

PL: City of Łeba migrates to OpenOffice — published on Aug 31, 2008

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The Polish city of Łeba has nearly completely migrated to OpenOffice, the Open Source alternative for Microsoft Office, writes Jakilinux, a Polish Open Source news site.

PL: Ministry of Education recommends Open Source — published on Aug 05, 2008

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The Polish Ministry of National Education is advising schools and universities to use Open Source software. The recommendation comes at the end of a volunteer campaign to help schools switch to Open Source.

PL: City councils using Open Source report major savings — published on Jul 24, 2008

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The Polish cities of Katowice and Jaworzno, both report major savings from the use Open Source software.

PL: Proof of progress on Open Source Geographic Information Systems — published on May 13, 2008

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A group of European scientists will be showcasing the progress they have made in developing Open Source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at a conference organised in Warsaw, Poland, in early June.

PL: 'Poland likely to vote against OOXML' — published on Aug 21, 2007

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Poland is likely to vote against the consideration of Office Open XML (OOXML), Microsoft's proposal for a document standard, by the International Organization for Standardization. A Polish technical committee rejected OOXML last week. However, a second committee is now being involved in the decision.

PL: Krakow migrates to OpenOffice, considers expanding Linux use — published on Aug 14, 2007

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The Polish city Krakow will this year begin using OpenOffice. The Open Source suite of office applications will replace the proprietary equivalent Microsoft Office. The city's switch should save some 120.000 euro.

PL - Poland recommends open standards — published on Jul 05, 2007

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Poland is recommending the use of open standards in governmental IT projects. The Council of Ministers in April approved national IT guidelines, which advise the use of open, publicly available IT standards.

PL: Krakow city council member proposes migration to Open Source — published on Mar 22, 2007

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A member of the Krakow city council, Jerzy Polomski, wants the Polish city to switch from using Microsoft Windows to GNU/Linux. Polomski, representative of the liberal Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska), says the migration will help the city cut costs on software licenses.