Open Source Observatory April 2016

8 May 2016 1 min read

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published in April 2016 for the European Commission.

South Tyrol makes U-turn, drops LibreOffice project.	Bulgaria moves towards open source repository
The government of Italy’s South Tyrol province will end its LibreOffice migration project, and instead intends to switch to a proprietary cloud-based office service.	The Bulgarian parliament is likely to approve plans to start a repository for software developed by or for the government. The source code store is to be managed by a new organisation, the eGovernment Agency.
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Oettinger: ‘Open source licences should be the norm’ `[Europe]`
Lower costs nudge Irish police towards open source `[Ireland]`
Yvelines school completes switch to free software`[France]`
Study: Govt should nurture open source sector `[Europe]`
Munich publishes interim report on IT performance `[Germany]`
Italian parliament hosts debate on open source `[Italy]`
Dutch MP calls for open source resource centre `[Netherlands]`
EC unveils Drupal module for explanatory maps `[Europe]`
Spain publishes file archive tool as open source `[Spain]`
Galicia offers testing open source office skills `[Spain]`
OSCAL’s Open Source Conference Albania 2016 `[Albania]`