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Required by law

28/02/2018

A growing number of lawyers and the Berlin Bar Association are supporting a call to make publicly available the source code of the ‘besondere elektronisches Anwaltspostfach’ (special electronic…

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Champions league

31/07/2018

This month, the city of Rome has begun making LibreOffice the only available suite of office productivity tools on its workstations. The first group to switch uses office tools less than one hour per…

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Special kind of economic actor

31/07/2018

Last month version 5 of the KiCad software suite was released. It provides a set of OSS tools for designing electronic circuits and creating Printed Circuit Board ( PCB ) layouts, and is released…

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Action strategy

30/07/2018

Universities in Spain’s autonomous region of Galicia can nominate free and open source software and hardware projects for the region’s annual ‘Premio ao Mellor Proxecto Universitario con Licenza Libre…

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Win some, lose some

29/07/2018

In June the German state of Schleswig-Holstein reconfirmed its long-term commitment to using free and open source software. In July its neighbour, Lower Saxony, announced it would gradually phase out…

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Technological practice

24/07/2018

The city of Barcelona has begun translating its free software guidelines into English. The guidelines help city staff with the day-to-day management of projects based on free software, including…

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Montréal goes Open Source

24/05/2018

Really exciting to see this move from the City of Montreal to adopt open source policies.

Montréal, open source, open hardware
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OpenChain Case Study

23/04/2018

Learn how NHS England’s Code4Health and AB EHR leveraged OpenChain Standard to manage their open source software supply chain with the services of Source Code Control

OpenChain, Compliance, Code4Health
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Diadikasies training

28/02/2018

Of around 5,000 public procedures in Greece, 2,100 have now been fully documented by public service staff on the Diadikasies MediaWiki. An increasing number of public services are requesting training…

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Coding in the summer

26/02/2018

Italy’s governmental Digital Transformation Team is looking for computer science students who want to work on open source software development projects for three months this summer. The government is…

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Mapping the horizon

26/02/2018

Albania’s vibrant open source community is encouraging the administration of Tirana, the capital, to open up. Earlier this month, the city and members of Open Labs Hackerspace together announced the…

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Not fully transparent

16/02/2018

Poland’s Ministry of Justice is refusing to make public the computer algorithms that are used to randomly assign judges to cases. The ePaństwo Foundation, an NGO promoting open government, in December…

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