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GNU/Linux Migration in Munich is in Good Shape
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| There is an end-of-2009 article by Floschi
| that shows the migration has overcome all the
| obstacles and made good progress:
|
| * 2500 GNU/Linux clients spread over all
| 12 departments
| * 20000 ODF templates produced and ODF is
| the standard format for documents
| * FLOSS apps everywhere in use daily
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2009/12/31/gnulinux-migration-in-munich-is-in-good-shape/
LiMux review 2009
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| ODF as standard, OpenOffice.org everywhere
|
| LiMux has achieved one very important goal.
| The open standard Open Document Format (ODF)
| is now Munichâs primary used internal
| document exchange standard, beside of PDF for
| non-editable documents. Congratulations to
| all, who made this great success happen! Our
| standard office workplace consists now of
| OpenOffice.org (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw),
| Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird and many
| other sometimes needed apps like e.g. GIMP.
|
| [...]
|
| The whole project will be adapted during the
| next months for the final big step, the
| client migration in general. Some
| improvements and optimizations in the project
| structure, to learn from the past and be
| ready for continuing the success story.
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http://www.floschi.info/2009/12/limux-review-2009/
Recent:
LiMux, how Linux revolutionized Germany
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| German city Munich got itself into the American newspapers a few years ago
| when the city council decided to start the project LiMux, aimed at gradually
| banishing Microsoft programs from the town hall computers & introduce Open
| Source software like Linux & Open Office onto all town hall workstations.
| This project was so succesful, other local authorities in Germany have now
| followed suit.
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http://www.itrunsonlinux.com/news/77-limux-how-linux-revolutionized-germany
LiMux: Munich Linux (R)evolution has its Imitators
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| Florian Schiessl, the acting head of the Munich LiMux project, says, "We'd do
| it again". Pictures of Tux the penguin, the Linux mascot, adorn the walls of
| the Munich city council's IT department. The target is to convert 80 per cent
| of the city council's 14,000 computers to Linux by mid-2012 at the latest.
| Even earlier, by the end of this year in fact, all the town hall staff are to
| drop Word, Excel and Internet Explorer and use free OpenOffice software and
| Firefox, the open-source browser, instead.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/LiMux-Munich-Linux-R-evolution-has-its-Imitators--/news/113629
LiMux: Where the Munich Linux (R)evolution is today
http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/limux-where-the-munich-linux-revolution-is-today.html
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 âBerliner Fensterâ, 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
The German Plan for Open Standards
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| The SAGA 4.0 document itself (PDF, 2.4 MB) states on page 114 that the Open
| Document Format (ODF) version 1.0 is a "Recommended" standard...
|
| [...]
|
| And it continues with stating PDF 1.4 as a mandatory standard (PDF 1.5 is a
| recommended standard, PDF 1.6 is a standard under observation).
|
| What are "Recommended" standards, "Mandatory" standards and standards "Under
| Observation"? Page 20 and page 21 explain the designations in full...
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/the-german-plan.html
Germany upgrades ODF to "recommended"
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| The new version 4.0 of the document "Standards and Architectures for
| eGovernment Applications" (SAGA) by the German Ministry of the Interior now
| recommends ODF for text documents.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/germany_upgrades_odf_to_recommended
German county adopts OpenOffice.org
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| According to this German article, the German county "Friesland" is adoption
| open source including OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org will be installed on the
| majority of the client systems.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_county_adopts_openoffice_org
German penal institutions looking into OpenOffice.org
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| It looks like that OpenOffice.org is also being used in areas where many of
| us don't expect it, or wouldn't research for. I have reports that some German
| penal institutions are looking into OpenOffice.org for their daily office
| work.
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/german-penal-institutions-looking-into.html
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