Government agencies embracing open source: Australian Government Information
Management Office [AGIMO]
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| Two in three (68 percent) of respondents to an AGIMO survey of
| federal government agencies said they are actively using FOSS.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Government-agencies-embracing-open-source-AGIMO/0,130061733,339279972,00.htm
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Australia To Trial OLPC
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| In a surprise announcement, the government of the Northern Territory
| has announced that they are testing the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)
| machines with a view to launching trials in remote communities.
|
| The OLPC has been designed for children in the developing world, in
| regions that struggle for basic infrastructure like clean running
| water, and electricity. So it may come as a surprise to some that
| an Australian state government has put up a hand to trial the new
| laptops.
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http://www.localfoss.org/Australia_To_Trial_OLPC
Office 2007 may be Microsoft's Titanic: former Government IT boss
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| Bill Gates has been talking up Office 2007 ahead of its business launch
| on November 30. However, the recently departed deputy CIO of one of
| Australia's biggest government Microsoft sites believes introducing
| the new version of Microsoft Office may be the company's biggest
| ever disaster.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7234/53/
Feds assess open source
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| Federal government use of open-source software will be examined to assess
| how many agencies have adopted Linux and other systems.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20553874%5E15441%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
Talking Linux in Sydney
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| There are three major Linux conferences held annually, one each in the
| US, Canada and Australia.
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| That alone should provide an indication of the extent to which
| Australians have been, and are, involved in the free and open
| source software community.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8527/1090/
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