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Developers Italia: Case Studies on Sustainability of Public Sector Open Source Communities

Open source case study

This is the fourth of a series of five studies exploring the sustainability of open source software communities in the public sector. INTRODUCTION Developers Italia is the name of both a community of…

Taiwanese government standardises on true ODF document format

Open source case study

Abstract Migration from proprietary document formats to the Open Document Format (ODF) in Taiwan had a slow start. ODF was made an official national standard in 2009 by the National Information and…

'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…