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*Joinup Open Source News Service - 6 March 2013*
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Joinup Open Source News Service for European public administrations Monthly
News Service - 6 March 2013
Welcome to the Monthly Open Source News Service of the Joinup project!
This monthly alert keeps you updated with news related to the use of
Free/Libre/Open Source software in the public sector in Europe. It includes
the latest free and open source software-related news, activities,
initiatives and insights from across Europe and beyond.
Enjoy reading – and visit us at http://joinup.ec.europa.eu!
Latest News
| View all News <http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/all>
[image: image]City of Munich stands by its calculation: open source
saves millions
The City of Munich stands by its November 2012 cost estimates, which
concluded that using free and open source software for desktops and office
productivity for its 15,500 PCs is over 11 million euro cheaper, compared
to the ubiquitous proprietary alternative. "There is no reason to correct
this information", the city's IT department comments on 11 February to
claims to the contrary.
Writing on its web site, the IT department for the second time refutes
claims made in a report for the vendor of the proprietary software.
Read more here<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/city-munich-stands-its-calculation-open-source-saves-millions>
14 February 2013 | Germany
[image: image]Hungarian government confirms its plans for an open source
resource centre
The government of Hungary is creating a resource centre to help the
country's public administrations implement free and open source software
and open standards. One of the main goals of the centre is to make public
administrations aware of the free and open source alternatives to
proprietary ICT solutions.
The competence centre, Szabad Szoftver Kompetencia Központ, is to provide
continuity, make information available in Hungarian and help public
administrations find fixes for any problem they might encounter.
Read more here
<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/hungarian-government-confirms-its-plans-open-source-resource-centre>
25 February 2013 | Hungary
- 'Latvia's economy ministry should boost use of open standards and
open technology'<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/latvias-economy-ministry-should-boost-use-open-standards-and-open-technology>
| 28 February 2013 | Latvia
- Openforum Europe: Procurement law fails to address discriminatory
practices<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/openforum-europe-procurement-law-fails-address-discriminatory-practices>
| 28 February 2013 | Europe
- Local open source firms and university curricula support Italian
Udine<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/local-open-source-firms-and-university-curricula-support-italian-udine>
| 27 February 2013 | Italy
- EC ISA unit presents six contract clauses for re-use of IT
solutions<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/ec-isa-unit-presents-six-contract-clauses-re-use-it-solutions>
| 27 February 2013 | Europe
- Like medieval merchants, open source community can create its own
laws'<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/medieval-merchants-open-source-community-can-create-its-own-laws>
| 26 February 2013 | Europe
- Estonian government investing in open source tools for
linguistics<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/estonian-government-investing-open-source-tools-linguistics>
| 26 February 2013 | Estonia
- E-learning tools gradually make their way into Francophone Belgium
schools<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/e-learning-tools-gradually-make-their-way-francophone-belgium-schools>
| 26 February 2013 | Belgium
- Award for patient ID project including open source software
components<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/award-patient-id-project-including-open-source-software-components>
| 25 February 2013 | Europe
- Local authorities network to focus on open standards and
interoperability<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/local-authorities-network-focus-open-standards-and-interoperability>
| 25 February 2013 | Europa
- Croatian president supports free software
conference<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/croatian-president-supports-free-software-conference>
| 23 February 2013 | Croatia
- 'Report on European Parliament's free software use is
coming'<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/report-european-parliaments-free-software-use-coming>
| 22 February 2013 | Europa
- Italian open source firms begin advocacy group taking aim at
government<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/italian-open-source-firms-begin-advocacy-group-taking-aim-government>
| 18 February 2013 | Italy
- Free software tools tracking European law making looking for
funds<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/free-software-tools-tracking-european-law-making-looking-funds>
| 18 February 2013 | Europe
- Spain's Extremadura publishes tailored Linux
distribution<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/spains-extremadura-publishes-tailored-linux-distribution>
| 18 February 2013 | Spain
- French free software firms want a government policy on sharing and
re-use<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/french-free-software-firms-want-government-policy-sharing-and-re-use>
| 13 February 2013 | France
- Bolzano automates testing of e-government services on free software
systems<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/bolzano-automates-testing-e-government-services-free-software-systems>
| 12 February 2013 | Italy
- Polish free software group joins Economy Ministry at Cebit
trade show<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/polish-free-software-group-joins-economy-ministry-cebit-trade-show>
| 08 February 2013 | Poland
- French advocacy group decries Defence's ignoring of procurement
law<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/french-advocacy-group-decries-defences-ignoring-procurement-law>
| 08 February 2013 | France
- MEP: 'Authorities should include freedoms when deciding on
software'<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/mep-authorities-should-include-freedoms-when-deciding-software>
| 07 February 2013 | Europe
Upcoming Events
| View all events <https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/event/all>
1st European Conference on e-Public Procurement
(ECPP)<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/event/1st-european-conference-e-public-procurement-ecpp>
| 20 March 2013
The Observatory for Engineering and Technology Foresight (OPET), a project
at the university of the Technical University of Lisbon, is the organiser
of the 1st European Conference on e-Public Procurement. OPET says that
"more than 17% of European GDP is due to public procurement".
"Open Source Village" at Med-e-Tel 2013,
Luxembourg<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/event/open-source-village-med-e-tel-2013-luxembourg>
| 10 - 12 April 2013
As in previous years, part of the international Med-e-tel conference looks
at the use of free and open source software solutions in health care. At
this year's Med-e-Tel, in the city of Luxembourg, there will be one
pavilion dedicated to this type of software.
CeDEM13 Conference for e-Democracy and open
government<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/event/cedem13-conference-e-democracy-and-open-government-krems-austria>
| 22 - 25 May 2013
According to its organisers, the international Conference for e-Democracy
and Open Government, taking place in the Austrian city of Krems on 22 to 25
May, brings together e-democracy, e-participation and open government
specialists working in academia, politics, government and business. They
will "critically analyse the innovations, issues, ideas and challenges in
the networked societies of the digital age."
Latest Software
| View all software <https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/all>
Seramis <https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/semiramis/home>
| 5 February 2013
SEMIRAMIS (Secure Management of Information across multiple Stakeholders)
is a pilot infrastructure to provide e-services with the required
underlying secure authentication and management approach and tests it
through two scenarios representing a large number of options related to ID
Management and Secure Data Transfer.
Multiscale Spatiotemporal
Visualisation<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/msvtk/home>
| 01 February 2013
Multiscale data visualization and interaction is a growing challenge with
integrative research in biomedicine.Data at different spatial and temporal
scales now dominate many of the grand challenges in the biomedical
community, and tools are needed to correctly represent and navigate them.
The MSVTK software library was created to solve this specific challenge.
Cmdbuild <https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/cmdbuild/home>
| 09 February 2013
CMDB stands for 'Configuration and Management Data Base' and includes all
asset management functions: workflow, reports, dashboards, attachments
archiving, georeferences.Originally it was developed as an application of
asset management to handle process-oriented IT governance with a quality
criteria (ITIL or other best practices).
Joinup Platform Statistics
Number of visitors in February: 68,505 Number of projects downloaded in
February: 1435 Total number of Software Projects on Joinup: 311 Total
Number of Federated Software Projects: 4,068 New users that registered in
February: 388 Total number of users: 11629
Joinup is a collaborative platform created by the European Commission and
funded by the European Union via the Interoperability Solutions for Public
Administrations (ISA) Programme. It offers a new set of services to help
e-Government professionals share their experience with interoperability
solutions and support them to find, choose, re-use, develop, and implement
open source software and semantic interoperability assets.
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contributions and we invite you to send in news items, announcements for
events and other stories related to free and open source software and of
interest to public administrations to the email address mentioned below.
Moreover, if you belong to a public authority or a public sector
organisation and would be interested in being the subject of a case study
for best practices regarding open source software, please contact us here
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