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MT: Government starts open source user group
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| The government of Malta has started the
| Government of Malta Open Source End User
| Group (Moseug) last month. The group is
| meant to become a major driving force
| behind open source initiatives in the
| country.
|
| According to an article on the new user
| group in the Times of Malta newspaper,
| written by Michel Bugeja, an IT architect
| at Malta's governmental Information
| Technology Agency (MITA), the government
| wants the group to help to increase the
| use of open source software in the
| government. "All stakeholders see the
| formation of the user group as a
| commitment from the government to promote
| open source software on equal play to
| proprietary software."
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http://www.osor.eu/news/mt-government-starts-open-source-user-group
SSC specifies open source software in tender process
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| The State Services Commission has raised
| eyebrows after specifying that open source
| software be part of its revamped website.
|
| The commission has told potential
| suppliers that the website's content
| management system, which will let it
| update and manage the site, must use open
| source software rather than proprietary
| software â such as that supplied by
| Microsoft.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3703572/SSC-specifies-open-source-software-in-tender-process
Recent:
Malta Open Source End User Group
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| Free Open Source Software (Foss) has
| reached appropriate levels of maturity in
| terms of quality and reach; Foss is also
| being adopted as a mainstream solution and
| also an alternative to proprietary
| solutions. The Malta Information Technology
| Agency (Mita) seeks to adopt cost-effective
| and non-disruptive OSS within government
| and is therefore seeking open
| participation, collaboration and
| transparency through the creation of a
| Government of Malta Open Source End User
| Group to become a major driving force
| behind the evolution of Open Source
| initiatives.
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http://www.maltabusinessweekly.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=8675
â 2 scheme for teachers and students for StarOffice
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| Maltese students and teachers can purchase StarOffice applications software
| for a once-only payment of â2.
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http://www.maltamedia.com/artman2/publish/financial/article_5033.shtml
Related:
IBM Linux education programme [in Malta]
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| One of the ICT education initiatives is the Linux Education
| Programme, through which 60 persons who already work in the
| ICT industry ambit will certify themselves as Linux Entry
| Level Administrators.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=48291
Leo Brincat's missionary zeal - Malta and Open Source
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| While Labour "studies" what its weekly half-hour trip on the internet
| gives it, we are developing areas where we think the benefits of
| open-source technology can really make a difference.
|
| [...]
|
| Moreover, should he have researched even further he would have also
| realised that we are taking our open standards policy even a step further
| and extending it to cut across different technological platforms such as we
| recently did with the eGovernment Web Framework when we extended it to
| cover also Oracle technologies and are currently preparing for its final
| extension into Linux.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=44531
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