Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

Arles publishes vaccination m…

Gijs Hillenius

15/06/2017

OpenVaccin is the most recent addition to OpenMairie suite The city of Arles (France) has made OpenVaccin, a vaccination management solution, available as free software

Swedish towns pool resources…

Gijs Hillenius

14/06/2017

Ten towns in Sweden are pooling time and money to organise the selection of ICT standards used for school administration software.

Poland court: govt source cod…

Gijs Hillenius

14/06/2017

NGO will take EZD case to Supreme Administrative Court The source code for software solutions developed for and owned by public administrations in Poland does not have to be made

Free software campaign signs…

Gijs Hillenius

14/06/2017

MP Isabelle Attard, free software-champion, loses seat April, France’s free software advocacy organisation, is once again signing up candidates in the elections for Fra

Slovakia officially approves…

Gijs Hillenius

09/06/2017

Mandates platform independence and open source In March, the government of the Slovak Republic officially approved its 2014 guideline on ICT standards.

Public sector turns to Discou…

Gijs Hillenius

09/06/2017

To engage citizens, European public sector organisation are turning to Discourse, an online discussion forum and mailing list solution that is available as open source software.

Public sector benefits from L…

Gijs Hillenius

09/06/2017

The software development community working on LibreOffice have greatly scaled up their bug-hunting efforts, using automated s

Global Witness open-sources L…

Adrian Offerman

08/06/2017

Global Witness, an NGO focusing on the politics and human consequences of environmental problems and natural resou

European Commission updates E…

Gijs Hillenius

24/05/2017

Adds GPL v3 to compatibility list The European Commission has updated the European Union Public Licence (EUPL).

Galicia continues promotion o…

Gijs Hillenius

23/05/2017

Renewed policy emphasises sharing and reuse of IT solutions The government of the autonomous region of Galicia (Spain) will continue to encourage the use of free and op