Hi :) It is really great to see another fairly massive organisation join the TDF Advisory Board. Regards from Tom :)
On 12 January 2015 at 10:34, Italo Vignoli <it...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Berlin, January 12, 2015 - The Document Foundation (TDF) announces that > the city of Munich has joined TDF Advisory Board, where it will be > represented by Florian Haftmann. Back in 2003, the city of Munich - the > third largest in Germany - has launched Project LiMux to migrate their > software systems from closed-source, proprietary products to free and > open-source software. The project was successfully completed in late > 2013, which involved migrating 16,000 personal computers and laptops of > public employees to free and open-source software. The City of Munich > has hosted a LibreOffice HackFest since 2011, to improve features > targeted to enterprise environments. > > "The city of Munich is a healthy reference for every migration to free > software, and as such will add a significant value to our Advisory > Board, where it will seat side by side with MIMO, representing the > migration to LibreOffice of French Ministries, and with other companies > providing value added services on top of LibreOffice," says Thorsten > Behrens, Chairman of The Document Foundation. "Doctor Florian Haftmann > will be introduced to other members of TDF Advisory Board during next > planned meeting, on January 15, 2015." > > TDF Advisory Board has 17 members: AMD, CIB Software, City of Munich, > CloudOn, Collabora, FrODeV (Freies Office Deutschland), FSF (Free > Software Foundation), Google, Intel, ITOMIG, KACST (King Abdulaziz City > of Science and Technology of Saudi Arabia), Lanedo, MIMO (Consortium of > French Ministries), RedHat, SPI (Software in the Public Interest), > Studio Storti and SUSE. > > About the City of Munich and Project LiMux > > Munich, Bavaria’s capital, between 2005 and 2013 has successfully > managed to migrate around 16,000 PCs in 11 business units and 4 > municipal undertakings to an open source based, standard and stable > operating system. Munich is the largest public-sector open source stake > holder in Germany, and Project LiMux has always had a high visibility. > > Project LiMux has been able to reduce in a significant way the > dependence from legacy proprietary software products, and attain - in > the long term - the desired flexibility of software and architecture, > based on three fundamental decisions: > > - Introduce a free and open source operating system, with office > communications based on open standards for all workstations; > > - To acquire or develop platform independent administrative procedures; > > - To use a standardised IT platform with consolidated applications and > databases. > > In such a scenario, a suitable desktop office suite is a strategic core > product. In the beginning, LiMux has started to deploy OpenOffice.org, > but by now the reference office suite is LibreOffice. > > Short link to TDF blog post: http://wp.me/p1byPE-wU > > -- > Italo Vignoli - The Document Foundation > mob IT +39.348.5653829 - mob EU +39.392.7481795 > sip it...@libreoffice.org - skype italovignoli > hangout / jabber italo.vign...@gmail.com > email it...@documentfoundation.org > GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 > DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: announce+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/announce/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
