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EU: European Parliament restart workgroup on open source software
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| A number of members of the European
| Parliament are about to start an informal
| cross party working group on 'new media,
| free and open source software and open
| information society'. The intergroup is
| expected to begin in February, with the
| support of the European People's Party
| (EPP), the Alliance of Liberals and
| Democrats (Alde) and the European Greens.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-european-parliament-restart-workgroup-on-open-source-software
Towards an Interoperable Scientific Cloud for Europe
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| Furthermore, a recent Expert Group Report
| on the Future of Cloud Computing produced
| with the support of the European Commission
| DG INFSO recommends that the European open
| source movement should work strongly with
| industry to support commercial cloud based
| service provisioning.
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http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/networks/Towards-an-Interoperable-Scientific-Cloud-for-Europe-81331842.html
HU: Open standards made mandatory for public administrations
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| Open standards have been made mandatory for
| the IT systems of Hungary's public
| administrations. The Hungarian parliament
| voted in favour of amendments prescribing
| open standards, to a law on electronic
| government services, on 14 December. The
| changes received 197 votes in favour, one
| against and 146 abstentions, according to
| the Open Standard Alliance, a Hungarian
| advocacy group that lobbyed in favour of
| the amendments.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/hu-open-standards-made-mandatory-for-public-administrations
Not so open
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| So, nearly a year later what has happened?
| One thing for sure is that UK government
| contracts haven't been flooding to open
| source companies - in fact there's no sign
| of any going to them.
|
| It's easy to dismiss Powell's musings as
| sour grapes from a company not benefiting
| from lucrative government contracts except
| I've also heard the same thing from an
| executive fromanother leading open source
| vendor, one who didn't want to be
| identified, but who was equally scathing
| about the government's procurement policy.
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http://blogs.techworld.com/the-blue-screen/2010/01/not-so-open/
Recent:
EP Intergroup: In Europe Left and Right for Free Software!
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| An intergroup on "New Media, Free Software
| and Open Information Society" was
| established in the European Parliament with
| the support of a wide range of political
| groups (EPP, ALDE/ADLE and Greens/EFA). Free
| Software promoters April (FR) and
| Associazione per il Software Libero (IT)
| welcome this decision that opens up the
| European Parliament to embracing the digital
| revolution.
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http://www.april.org/en/ep-intergroup-in-europe-left-and-right-free-software
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