During the Open source world conference in Malaga there was an initiative to set some guidelines about the way FLOSS should be procured by governments in the EU. This document is still been worked on but you are free to download and review it. I have done some reading on it and looks that there have been working very diligent on having a good set of advice for governments moving to FLOSS.
http://www.osor.eu/expert-studies On 2/4/09, Mike Gifford <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Wanted to quickly post this note about an opportunity to respond to an RFI > by PWGSC (the folks responsible for most of the federal government > procurement in Canada). We've written about the opportunity in our blog: > > http://openconcept.ca/blog/mgifford/gathering_input_about_government_procurement_of_open_source_software > > But have also pulled out the main questions and put them into a survey > format so that others passionate about open source and government can easily > add their contributions: > > http://openconcept.ca/rfi_open_source_software_government > > If you don't have time to respond to the RFI directly, please take a moment > to fill in the survey. Thanks. > > Hopefully this helps to get a lot more open office implementations in front > of Canada's 250K civil servants. > > Mike > -- > Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting Inc. > Free Software for Social Change -> http://openconcept.ca > http://twitter.com/mgifford || http://delicious.com/mgifford > OpenConcept is a proud sponsor of http://dc2009.drupalcon.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [email protected] > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
