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Legalized drugs, now open source. Those crazy Dutch!
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| While some organizations continue to hide their open-source adoption, NOiV
| (Nederland Open in Verbinding), has published a map of over 200 open-source
| products currently in use by the Dutch central government as of mid-2009.
| (Translation here.)
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10278308-16.html
Agencies look inward for Web 2.0
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| Agencies that seek social-networking capabilities are not always able to use
| public services such as Facebook and Twitter. When they can't, a growing
| collection of open-source tools is making it easier for them to create their
| own systems.
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| NASA's Spacebook is one of the most visible examples. Linda Cureton, chief
| information officer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, said she led the
| effort to create the tool because Facebook offered a good model but was too
| casual and not secure enough for her facility's needs.
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http://fcw.com/articles/2009/07/06/policy-social-media-nasa-inhouse-spacebook.aspx
Recent:
Cities of Anderlecht, Charleroi and Vorst on the move towards OOo
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| Since end of April, all civil servants of Anderlecht are using OOo. Charleroi
| and Vorst to follow this example.
| http://leo-ooonewsfrombelgium.blogspot.com/
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http://www.kabatology.com/05/16/record-your-skype-calls-on-linux-with-skype-call-recorder/
Dutch plans for Free Technology Education
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| Last Friday, 24th of April, the foundations for vendor independent ICT
| education in the Netherlands were laid down. Initiated by the Free Knowledge
| Institute, Ecabo and Vocational Education centre ROC Mondriaan, more than 20
| representatives from some of the key institutes for VET and Higher education
| (MBO and HBO in Dutch), from government and several companies specialised in
| GNU/Linux certification and training participated in this first meeting.
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http://freeknowledge.eu/vrije_technologie_in_het_beroepsonderwijs
'Open source learning increase in Dutch vocational schools.'
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| The Dutch ministries of Economic Affairs (EZ) and Education, Culture &
| Science (OCW) find it undesirable that students in the secondary vocational
| education system (MBO) are only being taught to use closed software systems
| from a few companies, according to EZ secretary Frank Heemskerk.
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http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2271979/
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