<div dir="ltr">Hi Luke,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for pulling all this information together.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">3) The LGMA OPSC seems to be on the right track:<br>
<br>
    <a href="http://www.lgma.ie/en/OSPC" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.lgma.ie/en/OSPC</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is encouraging; I wonder whether there are up-to-date reports on how those projects are going.</div><div><br>Also encouraging was an event from March 2016, which I passed on to the FSFE list at the time:</div><div><br></div><div>- - - - 8< - - - -</div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">The Office of Public Works recently organised a day-long seminar '</span><span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">Open</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> for Business v.2.0</span>' [edited 20170215: Looks like it was jointly organised with the Irish Software Innovation Network: <a href="http://www.isin.ie/go/news_events/events/open-for-business-v-2-0">http://www.isin.ie/go/news_events/events/open-for-business-v-2-0</a>] with<span style="font-size:12.8px"> the following speakers:</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div>Keynote Speaker: Mark Taylor, Sirius</div><div>Martin Troy, Dept. of Public Expenditure & Reform /  Eoin Mc Cuirc, Central Statistics Office:  <span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">Open</span> <span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">Data</span> in Ireland</div><div>Tim Willoughby, LGMA & Giovanni Tumarello, Siren:  Use of <span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">Open</span> Source <span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">Data</span> <wbr>Intelligence & Case tracking in LGMA</div><div>Eoghan Mc Carthy, NUIM:  <span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">Dublin</span> Dashboard and AIRO<br></div><div>Alan Mc Nab, MD of Arista networks:  Why <span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">Open</span> Source is important to Arista</div><div>Dr. Mihai Bilauca, Limerick City & County Council:  How <span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">Open</span> Source changed customer service delivery</div><div>Gijs Hillenius: <span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">Open</span> Source across the EU [<a href="http://www.hillenius.com/dublin-2016/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.hillenius.com/<span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">dubl<wbr>in</span>-2016/index.html</a>]<br></div><div>Vincent Hussey, Office of Public Works:  Use of <span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">Open</span> Source tools in river monitoring</div><div>Ray Pierce, Garda Siochana:  <span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">Open</span> source case tracking</div><div>Cleo O' Beirne, Revenue Commissioners:  Enterprise Search tools</div><div>Closing Locknote: Joe Dromgoole, MongoDB:  NoSQL</div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The seminar took place on 2 March [2016] and had the tagline '<span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">open</span> source, <span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">open</span> standards and <span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">open</span> <span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">data</span>'.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Summaries of some of the talks:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/open-source-lets-irish-taxes-scale-it-solutions" rel="noreferrer" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/co<wbr>mmunity/osor/news/<span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">open</span>-source-<wbr>lets-irish-taxes-scale-it-<wbr>solutions</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/ireland-national-library-open-source-everywhere" rel="noreferrer" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/co<wbr>mmunity/osor/news/ireland-nati<wbr>onal-library-<span class="gmail-m_-4927080866934105524gmail-il">open</span>-source-every<wbr>where</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/%E2%80%98open-source-essential-government-modernisation%E2%80%99" rel="noreferrer" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/co<wbr>mmunity/osor/news/%E2%80%98ope<wbr>n-source-essential-government-<wbr>modernisation%E2%80%99</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div></div></div></div>