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- French minister announces new plan for supporting open source https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-action-plan-open-source-french-administration 12 comments
- Netherlands parliament makes open standards mandatory https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/nl-parliament-makes-open-standards-mandatory 32 comments
- French minister announces new plan for supporting open source https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-action-plan-open-source-french-administration 5 comments freesoftware
- Open source in Finnish childhood education https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/open-source-finnish-childhood-education 2 comments opensource
- TIL that the European Union contributes to fund VLC. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eu-fossa-2 3 comments europe
- Linux School Distro has saved my Autonomous Region of Spain 41 million dollars in taxpayer money https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/valencia-linux-school-distro 103 comments linux
- ‘Tallinn declaration’ commits EU to increase use of open source https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/open-reuse 10 comments linux
- Galicia continues promotion of free software https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/161615 3 comments linux
- Bulgaria, France, UK, US support OGP free software policy https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/157578 6 comments linux
- Netherlands Parliament makes open standards mandatory https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/nl-parliament-makes-open-standards-mandatory 14 comments linux
- Dutch Parliament Makes Open Standards Mandatory https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/nl-parliament-makes-open-standards-mandatory 5 comments europe
- Lithuania, France and Italy are loving Linux and LibreOffice (x r/linux) https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/154521 100 comments europe
- Grenoble continues to move schools to open source (Debian for all the things) https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/153115 19 comments linux
- "[...] the Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung newspaper quotes a member of the Linux User Group Bosen, pointing out that the study underpinning the decision to move to a cloud-based solution was written by a reseller of the proprietary software." [LibreOffice incontra le mazzette di Microsoft] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/150864 3 comments italy
- Nantes Métropole completes switch to LibreOffice https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/nantes-m%C3%A9tropole-completes-switch-libreoffice#.vvk70f8ps1o.twitter 7 comments linux
- Free software groups protest France school software deal https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/free-software-groups-protest-france-school-software-deal 10 comments linux
- The Standardization Board of the Netherlands wants to make the Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory for Dutch public administrations https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/dutch-standards-board-mulls-making-odf-mandatory 33 comments europe
- Italian military to switch to LibreOffice and ODF https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/italian-military-switch-libreoffice-and-odf 14 comments technology
- Munich now contributing to upstream https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/munich-now-major-contributor-open-source 58 comments linux
- Open source now part of Romania’s Digital Agenda https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/136008 22 comments europe
- LibreOffice in the municipality of Neerijnen: Cost reduced, flexibility increased https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/libreoffice-municipality-neerijnen 5 comments libreoffice
- Munich’s return to proprietary desktop would cost millions https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/106341 153 comments linux
- The German town of Gummersbach completes switch to Linux https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/105069 60 comments linux
- 'Munich city council shields Limux against Mayor' https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/munich-city-council-shields-limux-against-mayor 134 comments linux
- Toulouse saves 1 million euro with LibreOffice https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/toulouse-saves-1-million-euro-libreoffice 124 comments linux
- Toulouse saves 1 million euro with LibreOffice https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/toulouse-saves-1-million-euro-libreoffice 15 comments europe
- The European institutions should switch to using the Open Document Format ODF as their internal default document format, says Member of the European Parliament Indrek Tarand. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/mep-tarand-eu-should-switch-odf-standard 59 comments technology
- EU MEP Tarand: "EU should switch to ODF standard" https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/mep-tarand-eu-should-switch-odf-standard 3 comments linux
- EU MEP Tarand: "EU should switch to ODF standard" https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/mep-tarand-eu-should-switch-odf-standard 64 comments programming
- Greens/EFA press European Parliament's President on open source https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/greens/efa-press-eps-president-open-source 12 comments europe
- French Gendarmerie: Using an open source desktop lowers the total cost of ownership by 40%, in savings on proprietary software licences and by reducing costs on IT management https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/french-gendarmerie-open-source-desktop-lowers-tco-40 8 comments europe
- French Gendarmerie: Using an open source desktop lowers the total cost of ownership by 40%, in savings on proprietary software licences and by reducing costs on IT management https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/french-gendarmerie-open-source-desktop-lowers-tco-40 19 comments linux
- British school switches students' computers to Linux, reducing costs and improving computing knowledge https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/british-school-switches-students-computers-linux-reducing-costs-and-improving-computin 20 comments linux
- City of Munich finished the migration of Linux to 14.000 desktops after 10 years and has already saved 10 Million Euros. The next step is migrating from OpenOffice to LibreOffice. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/city-munich-migration-sustainable-desktop-completed-successfully 289 comments linux
- Spain\'s Extremadura starts switch of 40,000 government PCs to open source | Joinup https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/65843 4 comments linux
- Dutch government to use open source for its new e-ID card http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/dutch-government-use-open-source-its-new-e-id-card 14 comments europe
- MIMO: a working group of French ministries to certify a LibreOffice release http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/mimo-working-group-french-ministries-certify-libreoffice-release-0 3 comments opensource
- All of Iceland's public administrations moving towards open source https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/all-icelands-public-administrations-moving-towards-open-source 10 comments europe
- Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or OpenOffice" http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/mayor-munich-eu-laptops-should-have-libreoffice-or-openoffice 5 comments opensource
- Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or OpenOffice" http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/mayor-munich-eu-laptops-should-have-libreoffice-or-openoffice 66 comments europe