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PT: "Nearly all school children getting familiar with open source' — published on Jul 14, 2010

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Almost all school children in Portugal are becoming familiar with using open source, including the Linux operating system, says Paulo Trezentos, founder of Caixa Mágica Software.

Administrations in Spain and Portugal heckled over licence violations — published on May 28, 2010

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The Spanish Police, Spanish Mint and Portugal's Agency for Administrative Modernisation have been heckled by developers of OpenSC, open source software for smart cards. The developers found that the public administrations use their software libraries, but have not made available this open source code, one of the terms of their licence.

PT: Government procurement agency approves use of open source — published on Apr 19, 2010

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The Portuguese government agency for public procurement has published a list of open source applications it deems suitable for use by public administrations.

Groups in eleven EU member states participate in Document Freedom Day — published on Mar 23, 2010

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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.

PT: Advocacy group targets parliamentary election candidates — published on Sep 10, 2009

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With less than twenty days to go before the next parliamentary elections, Ansol, Portugal's Association for the promotion of Free Software, is asking members of parliament their standpoint on free and open source.

PT: Advocacy group criticises government portal, builds alternative — published on Jun 30, 2009

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Portugal's National Association for the promotion of Free Software (Ansol) accuses the government Office of Construction and Property (INCI) of having broken procurement rules after it admitted on Monday that it had signed a 268,000 euro contract with Microsoft for the government's website on Public Expenses, Base, without a public tender.

PT: University to offer open source software master — published on Jun 22, 2009

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The Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) is to offer a one-year master course on open source software, starting in September.

PT: Ministry orders review of translations of applications open source school laptops — published on Mar 25, 2009

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Portugal's ministry of Education earlier this month ordered a review of the translations of all applications installed school laptops, after translation errors were discovered in an open source educational game.

PT: Open source businesses file complaint over procurement web site — published on Mar 04, 2009

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ESOP, the Association of Portuguese Companies for open source software, has filed a complaint at the national competition authority as well as the European Commission "regarding serious irregularities in the access to a major e-Procurement platform", the group says in a statement published on Tuesday.

PT: 'Authorities catching on to using open source' — published on Jan 30, 2009

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Portugal's public administrations are slowly embracing open source software and open standards, says Giovanni Manghi, an Italian biologist and open source software developer living in Portugal.

PT: Open Source basis for new traffic fines management system — published on Jun 12, 2008

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Open Source software such as the Java application server Jboss is at the basis of Portugal's new Traffic Fine Management System (SCOT), developed by the Portuguese Ministry of Internal Affairs.

PT: Government revamps portal on Open Source for administrations — published on May 27, 2008

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Portugal's Agency for Administrative Modernisation (AMA) will overhaul its website advocating the use Open Source software for public administrations.

PT: Education ministry steps up promotion of Open Source software — published on Apr 10, 2008

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The Portuguese ministry of Education is increasing its promotion of the use of Open Source software by schools.

PT: New association to increase Open Source use by schools — published on Feb 21, 2008

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The Associação Ensino Livre (Association for Free Education) was founded earlier this month in Portugal to increase the use of Open Source software in education.

PT: Government Institute to migrate to OpenOffice — published on Nov 08, 2007

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The Institute of Technology, part of the Portuguese ministry of Justice, is to migrate to OpenOffice, reports Igov, a Portugese project to inform public authorities on IT developments.

PT: Parliament unanimous in favours of open standards — published on Oct 09, 2007

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The Portuguese Parliament last week unanimously decided to make all its documents available in open electronic formats. A second proposal, requesting a migration to an Open Source IT infrastructure, was scrapped.

PT: Business consortium to promote use of Open Source — published on Sep 11, 2007

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The ESOP, the Association of Portuguese Companies for Open Source Software, is to be unveiled on September 25.

PT: Opponents of OOXML file appeal — published on Sep 04, 2007

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A group of eleven companies and Open Source advocacy groups last Friday requested Portugal's ministry of Economy and Innovation to investigate the country's July vote on OOXML, Microsoft's proposal of a format for electronic documents, at the International Standardization Organization, ISO.

PT: Portugal to vote Monday on Microsoft Office format — published on Jul 12, 2007

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Portugal will decide this Monday how it will vote on Microsoft's electronic document format, Office Open XML (OOXML) in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

PT: Open Source software communicates referendum results — published on Apr 10, 2007

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The Portuguese government in February held a referendum concerning the legalisation of abortion. More than half of the voters, 59 percent, said 'sim': yes. The results of the referendum were communicated to the Portuguese people using Open Source software.