Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

Market

Cyrille CHAUSSON

30/12/2017

A strong cultural and historical background favours open source.

Datos gob es

Gijs Hillenius

29/12/2017

In November, the Spanish government published as open source the code for its open data platform data.gob.es.

Using GitHub for now

Gijs Hillenius

29/12/2017

Bulgaria’s State e-Government Agency (SEGA) has started to build its national open source software repository in which it intends to share all software written for and by public services.

Public Money, Public Code

Adrian Offerman

21/12/2017

The City of Barcelona is migrating its computer systems away from the Windows platform, so repo

Collaborating on collaboration

Gijs Hillenius

21/12/2017

Software developers working for the governments of Canada and the Netherlands are working to join their government’ collaboration portals, GCconnex/GCcollab and Pleio respectively.

‘Open source makes you better’

Gijs Hillenius

18/12/2017

The city of Paris advocates the use of free and open source software by public services.

Meaningful data pattern

Gijs Hillenius

18/12/2017

Forty websites managed by Italian public services, from schools and towns to key eGovernment services, are testing the use of Piwik, an open source software solution for analysing patterns

Force disturbed

Gijs Hillenius

14/12/2017

The city of Munich is preparing to switch 18,500 workstations running Linux to proprietary operating systems over the next 2 to 4 years, in an renewed attempt to centralise the city’s 22 IT

Be open

Gijs Hillenius

11/12/2017

UK government public services must consider the use of open source software when designing, building and buying technology.

Shared, ready for reuse

Gijs Hillenius

11/12/2017

Early next year, the government of Greenland will make available as open source the software for its new Grunddata public records system.

Bilbao technology hub

Gijs Hillenius

10/12/2017

The German trade fair organiser Deutsche Messe and the Basque Country open source trade group ESLE will jointly organise the next two LibreCon events, in November 2018 and 2020.