> A friend of mine in the UK is looking for examples of Linux and/or open > source being used in public administration. I've named quite a few of > the German examples, but if anyone's got a list or useful resources, > I'd much appreciate it. From anywhere.
Could you be a little more specific? Which one did you mention already? There's a lot of different kinds of administration. Not that I can name more projects than you, probably. I only know from media not being involved into any of that. For local authorities: For me the city of munich was most present in the media. Their Projekt Limux became known because somehow (politically directed?) they discussed about software patents at some point. As far as I know they migrated the desktop of their mayor already. http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/referate/dir/limux/89256/ and in english http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/dir/limux/english/147197/index.html More silently the (much smaller) city Schwäbisch Hall switched. http://www.schwaebischhall.de/Linux.1630.0.html There's no state known which even has plans to migrate. According to the federal constitution in this level should be the biggest part of administrative tasks / personnel. I know from Berlin (which is a state and a local authority as well) that they discuss about. But not in an advanced stadium. On federal level there's the parliament administration on server side and the ministry of foreign affairs (the latter even run their notebooks on linux). > It appears that local government in his part of the world is only > interested in negotiating with <youknowwho>, and the local Linux User > Group is trying to suggest anopther angle :-) Same here in Germany, I think. They have to fulfill some tasks given by the state. I could imagine that that this includes the use of certain software. But there's a wide range of local self-administration. Maybe some communities migrated for this tasks but didn't make it public? It's nice seeing some local administrating opening their mind. But as long as there's no state (e.g. fiscal authorities, police, ...) changing there's no real progress. The states seem not to have the right touch for developing software so they probably think it's better to buy a "ready" system not to configure their own. Johannes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
