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Developers Gather for ODF Day

10/03/2006  
Relevance: 9.39
Yahoo Business reports on ODF Day at Akademy which brought together developers from KOffice, OpenOffice, IBM, Intel and government."Dr. Barbara Held, presently serving as Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General of the European Commission Program for Interchange of Data between Administrations (IDA), stated in her keynote address, 'In the view of the European administrations and Member States, the ODF standard is at the very top of the pile by far from all other proposed open standards.'"
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Historic victory of the"Associazione per il Software Libero"!

04/06/2007  
Relevance: 5.87
The Associazione per il Software Libero has successfully appealed a governemnt tender for 4.539.184,55 Euro in Microsoft software licenses on grounds that before buying software Public Administrations have to compare all available options, including free software.
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European Commission publishes guidelines on the procurement of FOSS

11/07/2008  
Relevance: 5.73
The European Commission has published guidelines for the procurement of open source for public administrations in Europe following public tender processes.
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Municipalities open their GIS systems to citizens

12/30/2008  
Relevance: 5.18
Many public administrations already use open source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to let citizens look at public geographic data trough dedicated Web sites. Others use the same software to partially open the data gathering process: they let citizens directly add geographic information to the official, high-quality GIS databases by drawing or clicking on digital maps.
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Use of Open Source software requires no European IT tenders

04/04/2008  
Relevance: 4.98
European public administrations that want to use software that is offered for free, such as Open Source software, do not need to organise a call for tender. This is the conclusion of the Dutch government project NOIV, after studying European rules on tenders. The NOIV published an English translation of its guide for ICT buyers in the public and semi-public sectors, 'The acquisition of (open-source) software', on its website this week.
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Building a market for FLOSS: The OSOSS project in the Netherlands

10/10/2007  
Relevance: 4.81
Urging public administrations to use Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and open standards is one thing. Getting them to really take the jump is quite another. In the Netherlands, the OSOSS programme is helping ministries and municipalities to make their IT strategies more open. Its goal is to create a level playing field for FLOSS solutions, and to boost the local economy and the Netherlands' capability for IT innovation.[Interesting read, the 'federal' Dutch government seems to have ignored open source a lot, but at the same time it is used more and more at the municipal level, thanks to OSSOS amongst others. - hkwint ]
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