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