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[News] Governments of Europe and Australia Looking Into Free Software

  • Subject: [News] Governments of Europe and Australia Looking Into Free Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:21:38 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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European ministers favour open specifications and open source

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| European ministers responsible for eGovernment 
| policy of the European Union say the open source 
| model could be promoted for use in eGovernment 
| projects, they said in a statement last week in 
| the Swedish city of MalmÃ. 
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http://www.osor.eu/news/european-ministers-favour-open-specifications-and-open-source

NSW ponders open source, SaaS

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| The NSW Government is evaluating the benefits of 
| software as a service (Saas) and open source 
| software in a bid to rationalise and reduce the 
| costs of its software procurement, according to 
| a Request for Information (RFI) document 
| released today.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/NSW-ponders-open-source-SaaS/0,130061733,339299732,00.htm


Recent:

ES: CIO Extremadura 'open source key to development'

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| The use of open source software is fundamental
| to a sustainable and technologically
| independent development, says Rafael MartÃn
| Espada, Director General of ICT, regional
| government of Extremadura.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/es-cio-extremadura-open-source-key-to-development


Students line up for new free software master at open universities

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| Two of Europe's open universities, the
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Spain and
| Open Universiteit in the Netherlands, are
| about to start the first courses of what
| will become a Master programme on free and
| open source software and open standards, The
| Free Technology Academy (FTA). The program
| could prove popular, the number of early
| registrations shows.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/students-line-up-for-new-free-software-master-at-open-universities


Workshop on open source software in embedded systems, Madrid, Spain

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| The EU-funded SHARE ('Sharing open source software
| middleware to improve industry competitiveness in
| the embedded systems domain') project is
| organising an international workshop on open
| source software in the domain of embedded systems
| on 28 October in Madrid, Spain.
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http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=31384
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