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Welcome to the newsletter of the Open Source Software for eGovernment community on ePractice.eu!
This month's newsletter contains information about important news and events in the area of open source software in Europe. You may also want to check the Events section to plan your participation to major OSS events this summer and autumn.
We would like to remind you that the OSOR search engine can be used to locate open source software hosted in the OSOR.eu forge and its federated forges. This search is mainly performed on the project descriptions, so, if your OSS project in one of the OSOR federated forges has only a brief description, please try to improve it and bring it a step closer to other public administrations in Europe.
In case you are managing open source software that complies with the ten principles of OSOR you may want to consider registering your project with OSOR.eu. Simply login and upload your Free/Open Source Software projects or simply register your software with OSOR.eu, thus making your project searchable through the search engine. Registration is free of any obligations, but compliance with the 10 principles is needed. You can terminate your account any time in the future if you wish to.
For more information and support, the team can be reached at osor-epractice@eurodyn.com.
The OSOR Consulting team
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IE: National Library wins national open source award for its online catalogue
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The National Library of Ireland received the Open Source eGovernment Award for its online catalogue in Ireland's eGovernment Awards for 2011, held on 23 March in Dublin Castle. The award recognised the National Library's use of open-source software in its Single Discovery Interface Project, particularly the VuFind Discovery Interface and the Apache Solr search platform, to improve and simplify access to its collections. The judges decided that the award was merited not only by the use of open source but because the Library had 'taken another step up entirely' through its practical participation in and contribution to the VuFind project.
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MK: Public involved in finalisation of national Open Source policy
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In the course of March 2011, four public meetings were organised in cities of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in the aim to promote and discuss the draft National Policy for Open Software, by involving the public in the process of finalisation of the text. At the same time, the events marked the last stage of the project for the adoption of this policy.
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MT: Government support is crucial for the proliferation of OSS, MITA chairman says
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The Chairman of the Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA), Claudio Grech, said on 28 April 2011 that the Maltese Government's support for OSS is crucial for the development of the right ecosystem in which OSS can proliferate.
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EU: PEPPOL and the European Commission: First electronic transaction in production
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On 17 May 2011, two invoices were sent by a British telecommunications' provider using the PEPPOL Infrastructure and were successfully received in production by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT).
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EU: Commission fully committed to promoting interoperability
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The European Commission remains fully committed to promoting interoperability as was recently expressed in its formal answer to the written questions of the Greens/ European Free Alliance (EFA) in the European Parliament.The European Commission (EC) declared that it is "confident that (its) infrastructure supports all the major IT standards and specifications, be it with open-source or with commercial software."
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SE: Framework agreement increases use of open source
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Sweden's public administrations, municipalities and health care are lately increasingly turning to free and open source software solutions, following legal clarifications made to a public procurement framework contract. From April 2011, a new framework agreement makes providers of services based on this type of software legally responsible for issues pertaining to copyright, licences and distribution.
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EU/FR: Interest Group on Shared Services (IGSS) launched to unite efforts towards resource sharing and performance improvement in the public sector
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On 25-26 May 2011, the Interest Group on Shared Services (IGSS), led by the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), was launched during a kick-off meeting in Dijon, France, co-designed and hosted by the e-Bourgogne Group of Public Interest (GIP).
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EU: SPOCS pilots to go live on 1 July 2011
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The SPOCS (Simple Procedures Online for Cross-Border Services) pilots are expected to go live on 1 July 2011. The live pilots will run for at least 12 months, including extra pilots for a duration of 8 months. SPOCS is a large-scale pilot project that was launched in May 2009. It aims to develop an interoperability layer to foster the cross-border services in Europe by making it easier for the service providers to deal with their administrative formalities electronically through the Points of Single Contact (PSC) that the EU Member States have set up for businesses.
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ES: Open Source Innovation in Companies Day
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Open solutions play a key role in the existing ICT systems and are present in all technological decisions all over Spain. A demonstrative element of this tendency is the fact that companies with more than 4 million in revenue are based on this business model, providing key benefits to their customers through the use of innovative open solutions such as, among many others, the independence from the technology provider, cost savings and higher quality.
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UK: SmartGov Live 2011
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Information Technology (IT) is at the heart of cost savings across the public sector, with the joint challenges of reducing costs within IT whilst enabling organisations to deliver services more efficiently. This event showcases the latest ICT solutions and practices to encourage a culture of innovation within public sector ICT.
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IT: EuroPython 2011
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EuroPython is an independent, community-run, community-controlled and not-for-profit conference dedicated to the Python programming language, Python applications, toolkits and frameworks. It is aimed at everyone in the Python community, of all skill levels, both users and programmers.
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AT: Linux4education workshop
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This workshop is an introduction in Linux and open source software in the education sector.The 3 day programme includes an introduction to Linux, and introduction to server4education and desktop4education. Registration is free-of-charge and may be done online at the event website.
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FR: 2nd International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective - EGOVIS 2011
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The international conference EGOVIS focuses on information systems aspects of e-government. Information systems are a core enabler for electronic government/governance with all its dimensions: e-administration, e-democracy, e-participation and e-voting.
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