Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

While breaking no rules

30/11/2017

On Wednesday, the Dutch government published the Java source code of the Personal Records Database (BRP) system, which was intended to replace the current Municipal Personal Records Database. The…

HackerOne VLC

29/11/2017

The European Commission has launched its first ever bug bounty. It will award between EUR 100 and EUR 3000 for bugs found in VLC media player. The programme will run until the first weeks of January…

Hebrew open data portal

28/11/2017

Israel’s Government ICT Authority has shared its first open source software: extensions to the CKAN open data repository system to help make it usable in Hebrew, for example by providing Hebrew…

Special conditions

27/11/2017

The Swedish National Procurement Services is preparing new framework agreements for software and services, including open source software and cloud services. This year, and for the first time, the…

The next Europa

21/11/2017

The developers working on the next generation of the European Commission’s websites (ec.europa.eu) and closely related web applications and web services recommend the use of modern software build…

Removing barriers

17/11/2017

The UK government should encourage its healthcare organisations to use open standards, open programming interfaces and open source components, healthcare IT experts say, in a report published on 31…

Open Source Summit

16/11/2017

The European Commission’s Interoperability Unit (ISA²) is organising a round table discussion in Paris (France) on 6 December. This workshop , which is part of the Paris Open Source Summit , will…

The next economy

04/11/2017

The Municipality of Rotterdam and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have jointly launched a field lab for the development of blockchain -based applications. The BlockLab project is financed by these two…

Driving modernisation

02/11/2017

In Galicia (Spain) the number and size of ICT services providers specialising in free and open source software is growing, thanks in part to the regional government’s IT policy which promotes this…

Open for reuse

02/11/2017

When building or rebuilding ICT systems, public services should make more use of open source software solutions, the Ministers of the European Union Member States and EFTA countries agreed in Tallinn…

Considerable public interest

24/10/2017

This week a US federal judge unsealed the source code for a software application used by New York City's crime lab to help analyse DNA evidence from crime scenes. The Forensic Statistical Tool ( FST )…

Autonomy

24/10/2017

France’s Senate should start a commission of inquiry into a proprietary licence contract signed by the Ministry of Defence, says senator Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam. This summer, the ministry’s latest four…