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Open source tour of Europe: Croatia
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| Even before the policy was published, open source projects were underway at
| Croatian public administrations, including the adoption of Linux on the
| mainframe in Zagreb as part of its eCity project.
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| Last year manuals for OpenOffice.org were distributed to all state employees
| and teachers with the aim of increasing adoption of the open source office
| suite while the Croatian government joined the Croatian Linux Users’ Group
| and the Croatian Society for Open Systems in organizing the Open Systems Day
| conference in April. Contrary to its name, the event ran for three days.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/23/open-source-tour-of-europe-croatia/
http://tinyurl.com/6bb592
Recent:
Croatia Open systems days / Linux users conference 2008
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| It's my great plesaure to announce in the name of Central State
| Administrative Office for e-Croatia,Croatian Linux Users' Group and Croatian
| Society for Open Systems the biggest and oldest Croatian conference on Linux
| and open systems...
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/croatia-open-systems-days-linux-users-conference-2008-632964/#post3110444
http://tinyurl.com/5wzslo
ODF accepted as Croatian national standard
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| Today, after a four hour meeting, Croatian CSI accepted ODF as a national
| standard.
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http://www.oddparity.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=1#usercomments
Related:
Digitally Free Schools
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| Marco Fioretti started new personal initiative which will hopefully make lots
| of parents and teachers understand why they cannot ignore FOSS and Free
| Culture anymore in the interest of their own children. He's going to publish
| a directory of Digitally Free Schools, that all parents may check when
| choosing a new school for their children.
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http://kost.com.hr/blog/index.php?title=digitally_free_schools&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Croatian government defined open source policy
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| Today, Croatian goverment specified how to handle open source in
| government offices, ministries and agencies. Document is called Open
| source policy and it gives good push to open source implementation
| in government bodies.
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http://kost.com.hr/blog/index.php?title=croatian_government_defined_open_source_&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Croatian government adopts free software policy
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| Basically it feels that proprietary software leads to too much dependence on
| suppliers, which can damage the market competition.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33120
Croats embrace open source software
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| The Croatian government has decided to dump proprietary software and
| move entirely to Open Source.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33860
Microsoft trying to delay ODF adoption in Croatia
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| In April 2007. Office for e-Croatia (governmental body responsible for all
| things e-related) proposed introduction of ODF format as a national standard.
|
| [...]
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| However, in this particular case, Microsoft announced objections shortly
| before the deadline, thus delaying the resolution of the proposal, and maybe
| even forcing rejection of the proposal. Due to the secrecy that shrouds the
| work of CSI, I can't tell what the objections are, nor whether Microsoft has
| majority of its business partners as members of the panel (although it is
| very likely so), but the last minute objections are confirmed.
|
| [...]
|
| Even if things don't turn out that way, there's the possibility that
| Microsoft might force OOXML acceptance by sheer voting power within the
| panel, although I believe that in the case of OOXML failing ISO approval,
| Microsoft would not dare to display such power over entire nation, at least
| not while in the limelight.
|
| [...]
|
| What does, however, is the fact that Microsoft and business partners are
| clearly abusing CSI panel for their own selfish interests, where they as
| members should think only of the benefit for the people of Croatia.
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http://www.oddparity.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=1
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