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| We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ask the Communities
| Secretary to require that all software produced by councils under the Timely
| Information to Citizens project be released under an open source licence
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http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/open-source-tic/
Bringing Free Software into the European parliament
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| Free Software advocacy associations April (the main French advocacy
| association devoted to promote and protect Free/Libre Software)
| and “Associazione per il software libero” (Italy) have launched a joint
| campaign aimed at the European Parliament elections in early June 2009. The
| campaign invites citizens to ask candidates to sign the “Free Software Pact“.
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http://www.sorbaioli.org/2009/04/08/bringing-free-software-into-the-european-parliamentportare-il-software-libero-al-parlamento-europeo/
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Recent:
Tories consider IT contract cap
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| Instead of awarding long-term contracts to large IT companies they could open
| up the procurement process to smaller firms using "open source" software.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7853086.stm
Tories Back Open Source Software...They Say
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| Fine words butter no cyber-parsnips, of course, and I'll believe all this
| when I see it. Still, it's a start, and it would be good to see Labour
| finally admitting that its megalomaniacal, monolithic computing projects are
| failures, and adopting the decentralised, distributed approach the Tories are
| advocating here.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1791&blogid=14
Tories consider open source and limit on size of government IT projects
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| Shadow chancellor George Osbourne is considering a report that recommends
| putting a £100m spending cap on government IT contracts and opening up
| procurement to small firms using open source software.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/open-source-business/news/index.cfm?newsid=13011
UK Councils to explore Open Source benefits
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| - First-ever UK conference on open source software in local government
| announced - As new US Govt looks at open source, UK called upon to wake up to
| opportunity
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http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/11144.html
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