Parliamentarians to discuss Open Source software
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| The economic impact of Open Source software will be discussed with
| parliamentarians and senior government officials on Wednesday 12th September
| at the Westminster eForum, held at the Palace of Westminster. Open Source
| community leaders Alan Cox, developer of the Linux Kernel, and Mark Taylor,
| President of the Open Source Consortium, will contrast the popularity of Open
| Source technologies in industry and with its limited adoption in the public
| sector.
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http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=33556&hilite=
European Union sponsors new FOSS education portal
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| Megías expects that about 100 contributions from members of the original
| consortium should be posted by the end of this year, and about one-sixth of
| these contributions are posted already.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/119059
Related:
PloneGov Snags Lutèce d'Or for Open Source CMS Efforts
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| Toward those ends the PloneGov project yielded a module for ordering
| administrative docs online, a town council management tool that is already in
| use by some cities, a business directory, and local government websites.
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http://www.cmswire.com/cms/open-source-cms/plonegov-snags-lutece-dor-for-open-source-cms-efforts-001418.php
3 open source e-Government projects merge and launch PloneGov.org
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| Open source experts from the public sector, community and SME's
| participated in the first Plone e-government international workshop.
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| Attendants, equally representing the public sector, Plone community
| and SME's, came from several countries : Belgium, France,
| Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, The Netherlands and Luxemburg.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/6/8/21231
European Grid technology project banks on open source
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| Using the popular Linux open source software, XtreemOS would like to
| become an alternative to its direct rival, the US-based Globus toolkit,
| to become the new de facto standard in this crucial technology.
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http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=27731
FSFE To Launch Free Software in Education Program for Teachers
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| Hundreds of documents on Free Software, such as OpenOffice.org, The Gimp, or
| GNU/Linux, and documents on Open Standards have been screened by a team of
| experts in regards to quality, free license and validity. The result is a
| basic collection of high-quality learning materials that have been, or will
| be atomised and entered into the SELF Platform.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/11664/fsfe-launch-free-software-education-program-teachers
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