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News Item BE: 'Belgium needs an open source resource centre'
The Belgian government should start an open source resource centre to help its public administrations increase their use of this type of software, says Jan ... by gijshillenius last modified Nov 26, 2008 06:43 PM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item ES: Administrations fund open source GIS education tool
The ministry of Education in Valencia, one of Spain's autonomous regions and the regional government of La Palma are funding development of Edusig, an open ... by gijshillenius last modified Mar 16, 2009 08:21 PM — filed under: , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item DE: GNU/Linux distribution to become option for schools in Rhineland-Palatinate
Schools in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate will be able to choose using the GNU/Linux distribution Skolelinux, the state's ministry for ... by gijshillenius last modified Mar 17, 2009 12:16 PM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item ES: Government publishes Open Source mobile phone text reader
Cenatic, Spain's national reference centre for Open Source, on Monday published a beta version of a mobile phone application to display office documents saved ... by gijshillenius last modified Oct 22, 2008 08:15 AM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item FI: City of Oulu: "Open Source offers very competitive alternative"
Open Source delivers a very competitive alternative to proprietary solutions, says Jaakko Järvenpää, one of the IT administrators of the City of Oulu in ... by gijshillenius last modified Oct 24, 2008 07:59 AM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item RU: Open Source installed in more than a thousands schools
Open Source has been installed in over a thousands schools in Russia, according to data supplied by one of the IT services companies involved, Armada. In 34 of ... by gijshillenius last modified Oct 27, 2008 04:46 PM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item DK: Update to citizen portal built on Open Source
The update to the Danish citizen portal 'borger.dk', is built with Open Source. by gijshillenius last modified Oct 31, 2008 12:40 PM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item PL: City councils using Open Source report major savings
The Polish cities of Katowice and Jaworzno, both report major savings from the use Open Source software. by gijshillenius last modified Jul 24, 2008 11:58 AM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item NL: Open source desktops manage shared office space ministries
Twenty desktop PCs running the Ubuntu Linux distribution are used to manage the services at a shared office building in the Hague for all Dutch ministries, ... by gijshillenius last modified Apr 19, 2010 11:27 AM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item IT: Bolzano facing protests over licence deal forced by vendor lock-in
The decision on Tuesday by the administration of the Bolzano region to renew the proprietary software licences for its servers, will be challenged by ... by gijshillenius last modified Jun 03, 2010 09:02 PM — filed under: , , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item NL: Amsterdam begins it's final Open Source desktop test
Using sixty desktop PCs running Open Source software, the city council of the city of Amsterdam this month is running its final test to see if all 10.000 PCs ... by gijshillenius last modified Sep 18, 2008 07:19 PM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item FI: Over a hundred schools using open source
More than a hundred schools across Finland are using open source for all of their desktop PCs, according to Opinsys, an open source services provider. by gijshillenius last modified May 18, 2010 02:08 PM — filed under: , , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item UK: Ministry funds repository for open educational material
The United Kingdom's schools minister Jim Knight is funding the National Digital Resources Bank (NDRB), a repository of adaptable, re-useable educational ... by a correspondent last modified Mar 17, 2009 03:38 PM — filed under: , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item BE: Ubuntu GNU/Linux for desktop PCs public library in city of Boom
The public administration of the city of Boom is using Ubuntu for ten new publicly accessible desktop PCs in its public library. The Boom library is not the ... by gijshillenius last modified Apr 30, 2009 09:22 PM — filed under: , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item CH: Government ignores procurement in 28 million euro software deal
The Swiss government agency for Building and Logistics (BBL) has signed a software licence agreement with Microsoft worth 42 million CHF (about 27,8 million ... by a correspondent last modified May 28, 2009 05:46 PM — filed under: , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item FI: Finance ministry updates its tailored version of OpenOffice
Finland's ministry of Finance is publishing an update of its localised version of OpenOffice. The tailored office application is this time also made available ... by gijshillenius last modified May 13, 2009 09:34 AM — filed under: , , , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item AT: Education ministry supports GNU/Linux distribution for schools
With support from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (BMUKK), the third edition of a special version of a GNU/Linux distribution for ... by a correspondent last modified Jun 16, 2010 06:19 PM — filed under: , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item EE: Open source ID-card software for multiple operating systems
The Estonian government's Informatics Centre (RIA, Riigi Infosüsteemide Arenduskeskus) has last week published two more versions of its open source software to ... by gijshillenius last modified Oct 27, 2009 05:46 PM — filed under: , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item 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 ... by gijshillenius last modified Feb 11, 2009 01:21 PM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item FR: Laptops with open source applications for school children
The Oise department in the north of France is beginning to distribute laptops to school children. The computers have many open source applications ... by gijshillenius last modified Feb 12, 2009 07:12 PM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item CH: No settlement between Swiss government and open source suppliers
The settlement negotiations between eighteen domestic and foreign open source IT service vendors have failed, the Swiss Federal Department for Building and ... by a correspondent last modified Dec 11, 2009 12:52 PM — filed under: , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item ES: Andalusia to distribute open source laptops to schools
In the Spanish autonomous region of Andalusia, 190,500 students and teachers will start using open source laptops in January, Spanish newspapers reported ... by gijshillenius last modified Sep 22, 2009 09:39 AM — filed under: , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item NL: Amsterdam installs Open Source on the desktop
The city government of the Dutch capital Amsterdam is testing the migration to Open Source desktop computers. Two tests are underway, one at the city district ... by admin last modified Feb 24, 2009 12:46 PM — filed under: , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item DE-EU: Open source migration German district Friesland on track
The migration from servers running Windows to (Debian) Linux in the district Friesland is nearly accomplished, according to a report by one the involved on the ... by admin last modified May 28, 2008 09:33 AM — filed under: , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item FI: Ministry of Justice migrates to OpenOffice
The Finnish Ministry of Justice this month switched over to OpenOffice. It made ISO standard Open Document (ODF) the standard format for office files. by admin last modified May 28, 2008 09:33 AM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item NL: Municipalities develop open source web application
Five Dutch municipalities have decided to fund the development of an open source application that allows citizens to organise their appointments with city ... by admin last modified Feb 24, 2009 12:38 PM — filed under: , , — Relevance: 1%
News Item Venezuela: Government migration to Open Source makes experts scarce
The Venezuelan government is expected to extend its deadline for a mass migration of government institutes to Open Source as the country faces a scarcity of ... by admin last modified May 28, 2008 09:33 AM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item FR: Paris region students to get Open Source mobile office on USB key
175,000 students in Paris and environs will be handed USB keys preloaded with Open Source applications when they return to school after this summer. by admin last modified Oct 05, 2009 10:46 AM — filed under: — Relevance: 1%
News Item UK: Open Source web filter to be deployed in schools
Some 200,000 school children in 700 schools in Yorkshire will be protected from inappropriate content on the Internet by Open Source web content filter ... by admin last modified May 28, 2008 09:33 AM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%
News Item SE: Swedish army considers server migration to GNU/Linux
The Swedish army is considering migrating some of its servers to GNU/Linux. How many and when the switch over takes place has not been made public. Earlier ... by admin last modified May 28, 2008 09:33 AM — filed under: , — Relevance: 1%