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OSOR: Limited access to OSOR during migration to Joinup next week
Registered users of the OSOR will have limited access to the site between this Friday, 2 December at 14:00 and next week Friday, 9 December, 14:00. Between those dates the OSOR web site will be migrated to its new location at Joinup. To ensure data integrity, login will be disabled to avoid modification of data during the migration.
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OSOR: IT: Sicily to consider law promoting the use of open source
The regional administration of the Italian island of Sicily is to consider a law nudging public administrations to use of free and open source software. The proposal, by Massimo Ferrara, a member of the Democratic Party, might also help prevent the break-up of a school on the island, the Instituto Majorana, involved in producing instruction videos on this type of software.
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OSOR: EU: 'A standard is open when implemented in open source'
A public sector organisation should only refer to a software or file format standard if the standard has been implemented in a sustainable open source software implementation. Without such implementation there is significant risk for the organisation, recommends Björn Lundell after a review of public administration's policies. Lundell is a researcher at the University of Skövde in Sweden.
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OSOR: IT: Communication vital for move to open source
Public administrations that want to move to vendor independent open source applications need to put a lot of effort in communication, recommends Massimo Carnevali, until recently the IT manager of the municipality of Bologna in Italy. "Communicate to everybody, from users to management. Explaining where users can find help could be more important than actually providing it."
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OSOR: LV: Valmiera city council 'saving energy and costs with open source'
The city council of Valmiera in Latvia is saving both energy and money by migrating its physical servers to virtual servers using open source virtualisation tools, says Kaspars Urbāns, head of the city's IT department. "You will be pleasantly surprised by the electricity bill. With the amount Valmiera saves this way, it could buy a new server for the cluster every six months."
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