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eGovOS 3 Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the building-the-way-of-the-future dept.

A reader writes:"German Minister Otto Schily and at least 2 other ministers will be keynoting at EGOVOS 3: Open Standards and Libre Software in Government conference in Paris, France on November 24-26, 2003. EGOVOS 3 will bring together the largest number ever of high level government officials working in Open Source and Free Software. In addition to the national ministers, 15 senior politicians, government IT officials and representatives from the European Commission, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Hungary, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama and the US will being making presentations." You will find general registration is open - free, but limited seating. Additionally, press registration is open as well. I normally don't post many conference announcements, but this one should have significant impact on governmental decisions around Free/Libre/Open/Whatever Software.

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  1. Re:Governments key to the desktop by DeBaas · · Score: 1, Funny

    and they could save millions by not buying you-know-who's licences

    Don't be afraid, just use his name: Voldemort

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  2. Darn those French by jtheory · · Score: 2, Funny

    This title is a disgrace. Why can't we let the title be completely in English?

    EGOVOS 3: Open Standards and Libre Software in Government

    Darn those French. As an American, I demand that this title eschew the admittedly useful distinction between the french words "libre" and "gratuit". The proper title should be:

    EGOVOS 3: Open Standards and Free (as in Speech, not as in Beer) Software in Government

    Thank you.

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  3. Re:Microsoft reps going? by Jesus_666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's more interestimg to me is Microsofts opinion on all major (and some smaller) German parties announcing to switch all government computers to Linux in they are elected (as seen in the 2002 elections).

    Heh, maybe they'll just make all MS products Europe incompatible.
    The document you are trying to open is from Europe. Word does not support European documents. If you need to open this document, ask the document's creator to move to the USA and save the document again.

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