Soft launch of open-source code platform for government(nldigitalgovernment.nl)
525 points by e12e | 119 comments
Dutch Digital Government news item announcing the soft launch of an open-source code platform for government organisations.
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5 stories tagged public-sector, newest first.
The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source(heise.de)
557 points by doener | 258 comments
Heise news article reporting that Schleswig-Holstein saves 15 million euros in license costs by migrating its administration from Microsoft to open source software.
Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email(news.itsfoss.com)
327 points by sebastian_z | 104 comments
It's FOSS News article reporting that the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has completed migrating its email systems from Microsoft to open source solutions.
German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice(blog.documentfoundation.org)
421 points by buovjaga | 261 comments
Document Foundation blog post announcing that the German state of Schleswig-Holstein is migrating 30,000 government PCs to LibreOffice.
Public Money, Public Code(publiccode.eu)
368 points by encodedrose | 123 comments
FSFE campaign page calling for legislation requiring publicly funded software to be released under a free and open source licence, with an open letter to sign.