Can someone point me to a good survey of free software uptake in the public sector, preferrably in Europe, in recent years?
I seem to remember having hear about Amsterdam, Munich, French Parliament, Extremadura in Spain, etc., but I need a survey with easy access to details: Actual software in use, porting/compatibility challenges, number of seats, on/off schedule, etc.
I need to use them for a talk I have to give at work, where I plan to talk about free software delivery for the public and private sector as a possible future business case for us (a small consultancy specializing in telecom and wanting to grow).
Anyone out there who knows of a suitable place to start?
best regards, Carsten
"Carsten Agger" agger@c.dk wrote:
Can someone point me to a good survey of free software uptake in the public sector, preferrably in Europe, in recent years?
I doubt it exists. If it does, please post it to this list and I'll add it to my links at http://people.debian.org/~mjr/surveys.html
I'd start by asking the more talkative adopters if they know of such a survey, then asking them for the data directly if not, probably in the order Bristol, Extremadura, Munich.
Good luck!
"Carsten Agger" agger@c.dk writes:
Can someone point me to a good survey of free software uptake in the public sector, preferrably in Europe, in recent years?
The European Commission's IDABC maintain a good list of free software case studies: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/chapter/470
Some parts of that site unfortunately focus use "open source" terminology, but the individual case studies mostly use FLOSS and GNU/Linux terminology.
I also compiled a short list before, but I'm not sure if contains anything of more interest than the EC's list: https://www.fsfe.org/de/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/free_sof...
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Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: | "Carsten Agger" agger@c.dk writes: |> Can someone point me to a good survey of free software uptake in the |> public sector, preferrably in Europe, in recent years? | | The European Commission's IDABC maintain a good list of free software case | studies: | http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/chapter/470 | | Some parts of that site unfortunately focus use "open source" terminology, | but the individual case studies mostly use FLOSS and GNU/Linux terminology. | | I also compiled a short list before, but I'm not sure if contains anything of | more interest than the EC's list: | https://www.fsfe.org/de/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/free_sof...
You might want to add Iceland to that list. Last week the government of Iceland released a policy on free and open source software.
http://eng.forsaetisraduneyti.is/information-society/English/nr/2882
/Tryggvi
Hi,
Can someone point me to a good survey of free software uptake in the public sector, preferrably in Europe, in recent years?
In French, "Migrations vers les logiciels libres" http://chl.be/migrations/