12-09-2005 - Last Friday several open source developers visited the Dutch government organisation for ICT, i.e. ICTU, for the first meeting of the OSS Guru Group. The aim of the OSS Guru Group is to create a sustainable relationship between the Open Source community and an ICTU-project that develops software for the government. The software currently under development entails a redesign of the GBA, i.e. the Population Registry. This software will be based on open source components, and will be deployed on a large scale by approximately 3 Ministries, 500 Municipalities and more than 5000 government agencies. [..] http://www.ososs.nl/article.jsp?article=18575