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New List For Linux in Government Initiatives

Posted by timothy on from the gathering-point-for-gathering-storm dept.

nullbyte writes "We have created a new list to discuss open-source integration/migration for governments. Our aim is to gather knowledge of successful or unsuccessful migration attempts and set up a public facility to pinpoint the key issues for a successful migration to open source. If you have heard of any migration that went sour we would like to learn about it as much as hearing reports from successfull migrations."

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  1. FLOSSpols conference on the subject by jeremie_z_ · · Score: 3, Informative

    any european folk interested by this subject should come to TheHague on nov the 18th to attend FlossPols :

    take a look at the speakers list to get an idea of how "high-level" this event can be.

    representatives from the European Union, the IDA (the organism from the EU responsible for an excellent "opensource migration guidelines" report), and from various state-ministries from all around europe will gather there around "FLOSS in government", giving concrete experience-returns and precious advise i think...