[Air-l] Fwd: EC Open Source Observatory seeks stories from public administrations

[Laurent Straskraba]

Hi all,

are there some people on this list being able to support OSO? Sounds really 
interesting.

Thanks,

Laurent

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>European Commission's Open Source Observatory seeks stories from public
>administrations
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>The European Commission's Open Source Observatory (OSO) is a clearinghouse
>of information related to free/libre/open source software in the public
>sector, and is intended to promote and spread the use of best practices in
>Europe. The OSO is part of the EC's IDA (Interchange of Data between
>Administrations) programme, and ultimately aims to provide a comprehensive
>overview of open source software policies and activities in the public
>sector, especially in current and future EU Member States
>
>The OSO has been re-launched on the new IDA website in August, and is
>available at http://europa.eu.int/ida/oso/. The content is being collected
>by MERIT (University of Maastricht), Unisys and Eurocities/Telecities. It
>includes information on events and other announcements, case studies, and
>news stories with a focus on news sourced directly from public
>administrations.
>
>We invite you to send in news items, announcements for events and other
>stories related to open source and of interest to public administrations.
>Please email them to: <mailto:gposs at cec.eu.int>gposs at cec.eu.int.
>
>If you belong to a public authority or a public sector organisation and
>would be interested in being the subject of a case study for best practices
>regarding open source software, please contact us at:
><mailto:gposs at cec.eu.int>gposs at cec.eu.int.





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Mag. Laurent Straskraba
Information Society Researcher
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Information Society Representative at UN Youth & Student Association of Austria
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