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F/OSS in European public services: policies, strategies and security

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LibreOffice Conference 2019

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UK Open Source Awards

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Ready for a challenge?

10/04/2019

For the next two weeks, the European Commission is raising its EU-FOSSA bug bounty awards. It is giving a 50% bonus for critical bugs, and a 30% bonus for other vulnerabilities. This means that…

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EUPL re-categorised

09/04/2019

OSI, the Open Source Initiative, categorises licences that are officially “open source” – meaning that OSI declares that such licences (or “licenses” according to the US spelling) are compliant with…

EUPL, CeCILL, OSI
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Webinar - The Future of the Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

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Co-creating the future of OS

01/04/2019

The EU-FOSSA 2 initiative will host three hackathons during 2019. With over 50 confirmed participants, the first hackathon focuses on PHP Symfony. It will take place in Brussels on 6 and 7 April.…

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QGIS and OpenStreetMap

18/02/2019

The public works department of Bad Oeynhausen (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is the most recent user of the QGIS geographic information system to have signed up for support at the KRZ municipal…

Bad Oeynhausen; QGIS geographic information system; OpenStreetMap; KRZ; GNU/Linux ; PostGIS;
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Encourage, not enforce

18/02/2019

On Friday, France’s minister of education declined calls from the national assembly to make the use of free and open source software a priority in schools. According to the minister, schools are…

France’s minister of education; ICT; Framasoft; Framapad;
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OpenEO readies its API

15/02/2019

The OpenEO research project aims to make it easy to use Earth observation data from satellites to answer questions on land use, from environment and agriculture to biodiversity and ecology. Open…

OpenEO; Earth observation data; API; LandSat; Sentinel; Copernicus;
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We truly value your opinion!

14/02/2019

The European Commission is conducting a study to define the new vision and strategy of OSOR . To contribute to this study, we are currently launching an online survey to collect views and opinions…

OSOR , OSS , open source software
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