Thanks!
Fwiw, the Canadian city of Vancouver (lovely spot, just perfect for an
Olympics) opted for Foss, too, tho not clear if OOo is the chosen
thing. See,
http://www.straight.com/article-220944/city-vancouver-set-back-open-source-open-standards-open-data
I'm trying to follow up with the council and mayor for more
information and to guide.
I'm also seeing if this step by V. will help in my quixotic (?)
efforts to get Toronto and other Canadian cities to migrate over.
Québec, too.
-ciao
louis
On 2009-05-15, at 18:37 , Leo Moons wrote:
Hello everybody,
City of Anderlecht:
In Anderlecht, on 23rd April the local citycouncil received an
update of the migration of all 600 desktops from MS Office to
OpenOffice.org. The minutes of council are not yet online, but we
understand that the migration has been successful and that the city
will safe 250.000 EUR.
As early as Feb 2006, every new computer was equipped with OOo
together with MSO. Problem was that nobody was using OOo, as
everybody was used to MSO.
At the end of 2007, some key-users were asked to start using OOo on
a voluntary basis. At the same time, the CIBG (Centre for
Informatics of the Brussels Capital Region - Anderlecht belonging to
this region) made a study what the impact would be on a total
migration.
In Summer 2008, the city council decided to go for a total migration.
Basically, training consisted of comparing MSO with OOo, so it was
clear that differences were not that big. 91% of users were
following the training. Further support was/will be given by key-
users and CIBG. Templates were developed for easy use.
Documents can be received in various formats, are saved in ODF, are
transmitted internally in ODF, externally in PDF, and if transmitted
externally and to be returned the format will be in MSO.
Very soon all computers will be upgraded to OOo 3.x
City of Charleroi:
About 1 year ago, the city of Charleroi decided to start the
migration of their 1600 desktops to OOo. Actually 300 PC's have been
migrated and 400 people have been trained. The opportunity was taken
to give a wider IT-training as a lot of employees never had a proper
training. Although Charleroi is not belonging to the Brussels
Capital Region, CIBG gave them full support
City of Vorst:
The IT department has closely followed the developments in
Anderlecht and will soon develop their own roadmap towards OOo. Also
here CIBG will probably be a partner as Vorst is situated in the
Brussels Capital Region.
Best regards
Leo Moons nl.OpenOffice.org
OooAuthors/nl - Belgium
Nous sommes condamnés à être libres
Louis Suarez-Potts schreef:
Hi,
It was with pleasure that I read today's latest headlines from
OSOR....http://www.osor.eu/
Especially as it related to Finland....http://www.osor.eu/news/fi-finance-ministry-updates-its-tailored-version-of-openoffice
and also Belgium: http://www.osor.eu/news/be-anderlecht-charleroi-and-vorst-move-to-openoffice
Can someone perhaps shed more light on these actions?
Thanks
louis
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