Open Norway: Norwegian Broadcasting Moves to OpenOffice and ODF

Norway's national broadcasting and TV facility NRK is intent on using the Open Document Format as a standard and is therefore changing its clients over to OpenOffice.

Ministry of Education recommends Open Source

The Polish Ministry of National Education is advising schools and universities to use Open Source software. The recommendation comes at the end of a volunteer campaign to help schools switch to Open Source.

The Ministry recommended in a statement that schools and universities use OpenOffice. The application suite is sufficiently mature and advanced to be used for teaching and for office use in education and science institutes. "OpenOffice can successfully substitute proprietary applications and will result in significant savings on licenses."

European governments help increase ODF interoperability

Representatives from three European member states, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, took part in the second Open Document Format (ODF) interoperability workshop held in the Italian town of Orvieto at the beginning of this month.

Belgian government chooses OpenDocument (2006, 2008)

In a blow to Microsoft, Belgium's government departments will be instructed to use an open file format for internal communications. 

OpenOffice boom Belgiumban

Belgiumban villámgyors tempóban növekszik a nyílt forráskódú irodai szoftverek használati aránya az állami intézményekben. Mind az OpenOffice programcsomag, mind az ODF nyílt szabvány alkalmazása egyre látványosabban terjed. A flamand hulladékgazdálkodási hivataltól kezdve – a szintén flamand – Schoten városának vezetéséig, az antwerpeni kikötő-igazgatóságtól Limburg tartományig számos állami és regionális szerv döntött az OS-megoldás bevezetése mellett.

OpenOffice boom in Belgium