Netherlands government plans the use of open standards and open source

Two days ago, Ministry of Economics of Netherlands announced in a press release a use of open standards and open source solutions in the government sector.

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SFD'07 preparation in Slovakia

It's only 8 days to the international Software Freedom Day, which will be held by 300 teams around the world. For Slovakia and it's third year of SFD we prepared this action in three cities. Bratislava, Kosice and Nove Mesto nad Vahom are going to offer a one day of software freedom near you.

For Bratislava we prepared something new, durring the last two years all the people were coming to the event on a specified location. This year SFD in Bratislava will be hosted in one of the biggest shopping malls called Polus City Center. We believe that bringing free software to the totaly new an unknown people can have better impact of the cause.

We gladly thank our sponsors which made this event more exciting for us and those coming to it. (Sun Microsystems Slovakia, Technical University of Kosice, Slovak Open Source Initiative, Linuxos.sk, Linuxfest people, and all the media partners as well)

OpenDVD for education in Slovakia

opendvd version 1.1 contains open source software for Windows in Slovak and English language. Some of the applications are available with a Slovak book attached in PDF.

Office: OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, PDFcreator, Ghostscript
Draw: TuxPaint, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender3D, Gimp
Code: Nvu, Lazarus/Free Pascal, Netbeans
Edu: Stelarium, Celestia, TuxTyping
Edu-K12: Gcompris
Math: Maxima, Octave, Gnuplot, Scilab
Geography: GrassGIS

dvd is available under sk.openacedemy.eu project

for version 1.2 we are preparing a offline version of slovak wikipedia portal

SKOSI joins egovernment committee in Slovakia

SKOSI, non for profit organization joined committee for standardization of information systems for public administration. The Committee for standardization of information systems is responsible for creating electronic standards for public administration in several sectors, egovernment, ehealth, European network and abroad communication. Committee is the supreme body for egovernment in the Slovak Republic under Ministry of Finance, egovernment section which was formerly hosted under Ministry of Telecomunications.

We are looking forward to bring more open standards into information systems in Slovak public sector.