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Vulnerability scans

13/09/2018

Germany’s federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has been funding a 26-month project to help small and medium-sized companies avoid IT security issues when using open source content…

Germany’s federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy; IT security; Siwecos; DrupalEurope; SMEs;
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Git-pull [<options>]

11/09/2018

OpenEuropa’s software developers working on the European Commission’s Drupal-based software projects also contribute to related open source projects. When they come across a bug in a component needed…

OpenEuropa’s software; Darmstadtium; DrupalEurope;
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Source should be public

11/09/2018

The Digital Transformation Team of the Italian government is calling on buyers and sellers of public sector ICT solutions to apply 16 technological principles, including the use of open ICT standards…

Digital Transformation; Italian government; ICT solutions;
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Nordic interoperability

10/09/2018

The Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), a public service started in August 2017 by Estonia and Finland, is making available its first two extensions for X-Road, an open source…

NIIS; X-Road; REST Adapter Service; REST-JSON/XML; SOAP; XRd4J; X-tee; Suomi.fi;
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'Buy from startups' strategy pays off for City of Antwerp

Open source case study

Abstract A new administrative coalition has forced Digipolis Antwerp to rethink its procurement policy. In 2015 the City of Antwerp reorganised its ICT architecture from silo-based systems dependent…

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Open-Source

04/09/2018

Last week, Mustangproject published version 1.5.4 of it's open source java e-invoicing library for ZUGFeRD. Since version 1.5, Mustangproject can read and write electronic invoices embedding a UN…

e-invoice, invoice, library
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Digitally inclusive

31/08/2018

The Dutch government plans to remove legal roadblocks to allow public services to publish the source code of their ICT solutions. A pending proposal from the government to the parliament will change…

Dutch government; legal roadblocks; ICT solutions; source code; NL DIGIbeter;
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Manage risks and assets

31/08/2018

Croatia’s Customs Administration wants to switch some of its core business systems to open source. The organisation is looking for specialists who can help build a new Linux-based server…

Croatia’s Customs; core business systems; open source; new Linux-based server infrastructure; risk and ICT assets management systems; IBM Power systems; Power and VDI server infrastructure; Red Hat; Apache Tomcat; MariaDB; PostgreSQL;
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SFSCon 2018

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Open Source Lisbon 2018:

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LibreCon 2018

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