Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

Be open

11/12/2017

UK government public services must consider the use of open source software when designing, building and buying technology. Public services must also consider sharing the source code publicly. Last…

Shared, ready for reuse

11/12/2017

Early next year, the government of Greenland will make available as open source the software for its new Grunddata public records system. The source code will most likely be published on GitHub, says…

Bilbao technology hub

10/12/2017

The German trade fair organiser Deutsche Messe and the Basque Country open source trade group ESLE will jointly organise the next two LibreCon events, in November 2018 and 2020. The organisations aim…

Save Code Share!

02/12/2017

This week, more than 80 organisations involved in open source software wrote an open letter to the Council of the EU and the European Commission expressing their concerns on the new Copyright…

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…