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Open Source Software for Public Administrations: ePractice Workshop, Brussels 7 April 2011

The ePractice Workshop on Open Source Software for Public Administration, supported by the ePractice.eu and the OSOR.eu communities, will be held in Brussels, on Thursday 7 April 2011.

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OSOR News: ODF Plugfest article

OSOR news reported about the second ODF Plugfest, the event held in Orvieto at the beginning of this month bringing together standards experts from major multi-national corporations, representatives of European public administrations, andmany individuals active in the European open source  community.

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European Open Source Haystacks

The EU now provides a search tool to find applications among the 1751 open source development projects hosted on ten federated forges managed by Austrian, French, Italian and Spanish public administrations.

The new search engine basically relies on an automatic translation service, translating projects’ descriptions in English.

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Download OpenOffice.org at OSOR, Create Queries easily, How-To for C# Programmers: OpenOffice.org links, 9-06-2009

OpenOffice package for public administration published in EU open source portal - The Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities has released a new version of OpenOffice.org, downloadable at Osor.eu. (via ePractice).

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Open Source Adoption in Italian Public Administrations: Some Real Cases

As mentioned in a previous postForumPA - the greatest Italian event of and about Public Administration - asked me to chair the only open source conference taking place in the event.

Italian and international speakers provided the audience with an insight into how to effectively deploy open source software in a significant way.

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Linux Foundation Welcomes European IT Service Firm

The Linux Foundation today announced that credativ - a consulting and service company employing 45 people in its offices in the UK, Germany and Canada - has become member of the Linux Foundation.

As Linux continues to grow in popularity in Europe, companies like credativ become increasingly vital to the Linux ecosystem. credativ’s contributions to the LSB are especially important as Linux grows internationally and different distributions emerge.

Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, in commenting the news.

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European Open Source Repository: OSOR goes into the Wild 2.0

OSOR website today launched a new section to allow users to add blog entries, create and participate in discussions or share documents and cases and assist in creating a knowledge base on their community.

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Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.