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DE: Government reinforces open source resource centre
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| Germany's federal Agency for Information Technology (BIT) is increasing its
| open source support to public administrations, according to representative
| attending the Linuxtag conference in Berlin last week.
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| BIT's now employs a team of consultants and technicians specialised in open
| source, that will offer assistance to public administrations. The renewal of
| the competence centre is one of the measures taken by the federal government
| to prop up the country's economy.
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| During the conference BIT's colleagues from the federal Office for IT
| security (BSI), part of the ministry of the Interior, presented the most
| recent version of Kolab, an open source collaboration suite for Unix
| platforms.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/de-government-reinforces-open-source-resource-centre
Related:
Three German KDE Deployments
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| The IT Service Center Berlin has announced the development of a desktop
| system for the public services in Germany's capital (Google Translate to
| English). This is yet another public body making the switch to the Free
| Desktop system
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http://dot.kde.org/1212516937/
[German] Federal Employment Office switches to Linux
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102218
German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) Deploys StarOffice
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| According to this German article, the German Federal Office for Information
| Security (BSI) is switching to StarOffice for all 500 desktop PCs. 90% of the
| BSI employees have already gone through the migration. Another great success
| story for ODF!
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_federal_office_for_information
DE: One fifth of Freiburg city council migrated to OpenOffice
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| In the German city of Freiburg, four hundred of the two thousand PCs used by
| the city council are now running OpenOffice.
|
| The migration to the Open Source suite of office applications is a
| intermediate goal, saving the city up to half a million euro in licence
| costs. The city's final aim is to switch to an Open Source desktop.
|
| The council began its office application migration last July, when it decided
| to use the ISO-approved Open Document Format (ODF) as a document standard.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7538
Ubuntu landed on Berlin metro system
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| The guys from “Berliner Fenster”, a company responsible for the content of
| the television system installed inside underground vehicles (more than 3.700
| displays) were so kind (thank you!) providing us with a spot for our release
| party this Saturday for free. So just on time with the release starting from
| today there are small spots viewable by an audience of about 1.5 million
| people per day according to their web site.
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http://www.screenage.de/blog/2008/04/24/ubuntu-landed-on-berlin-metro-system/
DE: German Foreign Ministry will not use ISO OOXML
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| In the weeks prior to the second round of votes last September,
| irregularities were reported in the standard committees in many participating
| countries. These claims continued until after the final discussion, in
| February and March this year.
|
| The European Commission has started an investigation into the allegations.
| The Commission sent a letter to all EU national standards committees in
| Europe, requesting information about the process. Sources at the Commission
| declined to comment, as the investigation is on-going and no official
| position has yet been adopted.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7561
199 Euro laptop with OpenOffice.org pre-installed
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| I just found about this offer in Germany. A vendor called "one" is selling a
| low-cost laptop with Linux and OpenOffice.org pre-installed for 199 Euro.
| This special offer lasts until May 12th according to the website. Cool to see
| more and more hardware vendors bundle OpenOffice.org!
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/199_euro_laptop_with_openoffice
City of Munich and German Federal Foreign Office start collaboration
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| According to this German article, the City of Munich and the German Federal
| Foreign Office have started to collaborate on the implementation of their
| open source and open standards strategies. I would not be surprised if other
| organizations decided to join the "alliance" as well. Anyway, very cool to
| see government organizations collaborate regarding the usage of open source
| and open standards.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/city_of_munich_and_german
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