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OSOR Webinar, 4 May: Policy & Strategy Aspects of OSS in Public Administration
OSOR is pleased to announce a webinar on Tuesday 4 May, from 2pm to 4pm CET, on "Policy & Strategy Aspects of OSS in Public Administration". This is the first in a series of three and will present the…
NEWSCreated: 24/03/2023Updated Date: 24/03/2023
OSOR helps to get your OSPO going - a new resource published!
OSOR published a new section to support public administrations wanting to start an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) in their organisation. The page collects information, news and guides to answer the…
NEWSCreated: 22/03/2023Updated Date: 22/03/2023
Webinar: Public Services Open-Source Governance and Collaboration
The European Commission’s DG DIGIT, in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Interior and Open Cities, is organising a webinar “Public services open-source governance and collaboration” on 30 March…
NEWSCreated: 21/03/2023Updated Date: 22/03/2023
Interview: Fabio Bonelli of Developers Italia on government software selection
Fabio Bonelli is a software engineer in Developers Italia, which is part of the Italian government's Department for Digital Transformation. OSOR (Ciarán O'Riordan): How much open source software is…
NEWSCreated: 17/03/2023Updated Date: 17/03/2023
Czech government enhances citizens’ privacy by switching to open source web analytics tool
Czechia will start using an open source web analytics tool, Matomo, on government websites, announced Czechia’s National Agency for Communication and Information Technologies (NAKIT) recently. Matomo…
NEWSCreated: 14/03/2023Updated Date: 14/03/2023
European Data Protection Supervisor leads the way toward open source collaborative software solutions for EU Institutions.
This month, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) announced having started to use the Open source Nextcloud suite and Collabora Online. This decision is a result of the data protection…
NEWSCreated: 09/03/2023Updated Date: 09/03/2023
OSOR at FOSS Backstage:
The Open Source Observatory will be at FOSS Backstage 2023 and will present the European Commission’s Interoperable Europe Act and the proposal’s implications for the Open Source ecosystem. The…
NEWSCreated: 02/03/2023Updated Date: 02/03/2023
Lero gets a European open science award for launching OSPO and Open Science Charter
Lero’s Open Science Committee was recognised with the Young European Research Universities (YERUN) Open Science Award. Lero is Science Foundation Ireland’s software research centre, which opened an…
NEWSCreated: 23/02/2023Updated Date: 23/02/2023
FSF new procedures & GNU GPL stewardship
Free Software Foundation (FSF) has updated their by-laws so that approval by 66% of its Directors is required to approve any new versions of the GNU General Public License (GPL). They've also…
NEWSCreated: 22/02/2023Updated Date: 23/02/2023
France Digital Strategy for Education calls for the development of “digital commons”
The French Ministry of Education published its Digital Strategy for 2023-2027. This strategy supports the use of “digital commons” including free software quoting their sovereign, secured, free and…
NEWSCreated: 21/02/2023Updated Date: 21/02/2023
France Digital Strategy for Education supports the use of “digital commons”.
The French Ministry of Education published its Digital Strategy for 2023-2027. This strategy supports the use of “digital commons” including free software quoting their sovereign, secured, free and…
NEWSCreated: 21/02/2023Updated Date: 21/02/2023
OSOR at FOSDEM - watch our presentation on the Interoperable Europe Act
FOSDEM 2023 was organised on 4-5 February, and the OSOR team joined the event in Brussels. Ciarán O'Riordan presented the OSOR project and the Interoperable Europe Act in the Public Goods devroom. The…
NEWSCreated: 17/02/2023Updated Date: 23/02/2023