Date: Thu Aug 04 2005 - 12:45:45 WEST
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| Subject: | Open Source News Roundup - July 2005 |
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| Date: | Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:08:33 +0300 (EEST) |
| From: | gposs@cec.eu.int |
| Reply-To: | gposs@cec.eu.int |
| To: | joaquim.machado@ine.pt |
http://europa.eu.int/idabc/oso
Welcome to the Open Source News Roundup.
This monthly alert serves to keep you informed of additions and updates to the content on the IDABC Open Source Observatory (OSO). The IDABC-OSO is a clearinghouse of informationrelated to free/libre/open source software in the public sector, and is intended to promote and spread the use of best practices in Europe. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of free and open source software policies and activities in the public sector, especially in current and future EU Member States.This service will keep you up-to-date with the latest open source software-related news, activities, initiatives and insights from across Europe and beyond.
Please feel free to forward this alert to any other interested persons, and to send us your comments and suggestions. We also welcome your contributions and we invite you to send in news items, announcements for events and other stories related to open source and of interest to public administrations to the email address mentioned before. Moreover, if you belong to a public authority or a public sector organisation and would be interested in being the subject of a case study for best practices regarding open source software, please contact us. All email should be sent to gposs@cec.eu.int.
The Open
Source Software Inventory
We invite you to submit any free / libre / open source software projects that your organisation or team has produced, for inclusion in the OSO Software Inventory. Submission of a software project is easy –you only need to fill in an online form (http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/chapter/5649)with a few questions regarding the nature of the software. Within a few days thereafter, you will see your software description online on the Inventory website.
We have already received several project submissions - to view the project descriptions, go to http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/chapter/5649.
News this month on the Open Source Observatory
“Basis standard for an Open Source software introduction and a technical support” in Polish Government
Canadian event showcasing Women and Open Source
Recommendations for Open Source Software Use
New Zealand’s schools prefer Open Source Software
Atomic Weapons Establishment adopts Open Source Systems
UK School is using successfully Open Source Software
South Africa considers Open Source Software for E-Health System
Open Source PCs for Philippines Government Agencies
Vienna and Munich call for legal certainty with Software Patents
Barcelona embraces Open Source
“One laptop per child” running on open source technology in Brazil
Open Source in Fléron (Belgium)
German Federal Ministry releases XML Study
Norwegian Minister says that all public sectors need to make a plan for the use of Open Sourceby 2005
Free/Open Source Software Localization primer just published
AvMA Starts Open Source Taskforce
Balkan cities become e-municipalities with open source (n°2)
Open Source Test Laboratory for Public Institutions
Open Source Platform for Korean Schools
Case Studies
Open Source Migration of the German Surveying and Land Register AdministrationOpen Source Adoption of the German Federal Office for Information Security
Expert studies carried out by the OSO team
The OSO team has carried out several expert studies. The reports of these studies are listed below (all links point to PDF files).
- Guidelines for Public Administrations on Partnering with Free Software Developers
- Open Source Licensing of software developed by The European Commission (applied to the CIRCA solution)
- Patents and open source software - What public authorities need to know
Following an in-depth study carried out by the OSO team, in collaboration with the University of Namur, and the proposal of a draft software license, IDABC released the draft license - the EU Public License or EUPL - at the IDABC LinuxTag event in June 2005.
Future reports can be found in the expert studiessection of the OSO.
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-- Obrigado, Joaquim Machado INE (DSI/IT - Serviço de Infra-estrutura Tecnológica)
Received on Thu Aug 4 12:45:39 2005