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Open Source Observatory October 2020

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in October 2020.

Open Source Observatory September 2020

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in September 2020.

Open Source Observatory August 2020

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in August 2020.

Open Source Observatory July 2020

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in July 2020.

Fixing the "Received-SPF: none" email header in Debian Exim

Update the Exim SPF macro

Open Source Observatory May 2020

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in May 2020.

Open Source Observatory April 2020

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in April 2020.

Open Source Observatory March 2020

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in March 2020.

Open Source Observatory February 2020

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in February 2020.

Open Source Observatory January 2020

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in January 2020.

Open Source Observatory December 2019

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in December 2019.

Open Source Observatory November 2019

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in November 2019.

Open Source Observatory October 2019

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in October 2019.

Open Source Observatory September 2019

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in September 2019.

Open Source Observatory August 2019

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in August 2019.

Open Source Observatory July 2019

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in July 2019.

Open Source Observatory March/April 2019

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in March and April 2019.

Open Source Observatory February 2019

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in February 2019.

Open Source Observatory January 2019

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in January 2019.

Open Source Observatory December 2018

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in December 2018.

Magit: symbol's function definition is void: ~some

Using a recent Emacs, and now M-x magic-status is hickuping at startup? Check if you have an old copy of dash.el hiding somewhere, perhaps one that you installed by yourself years ago, bypassing the package manager. This is really a frequently issue, and it's most likely you, not Magit. See here, here, here, here, or here.

Open Source Observatory November 2018

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in November 2018.

Open Source Observatory October 2018

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in October 2018.

Open Source Observatory September 2018

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in September 2018.

Tilt! Downgrading firmware on the DCS-5020L

For those on Linux that use the DCS-5020L Pan & Tilt Wifi Camera: perhaps you don't want to upgrade the firmware to v1.15.12.

Open Source Observatory August 2018

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in August 2018.

Open Source Observatory July 2018

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in July 2018.

Sharing and Reuse Framework for IT Solutions

A series of articles on the European Commission's 'Sharing and Reuse Framework for IT Solutions'.

Open Source Observatory February 2018

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in February 2018.

ePractice February 2018

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in February 018.

ePractice January 2018

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in January 2018.

Open Source Observatory December 2017

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in December 2017.

ePractice December 2017

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in December 2017.

ePractice November 2017

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in November 2017.

Open Source Observatory November 2017

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in November 2017.

ePractice October 2017

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in October 2017.

Open Source Observatory October 2017

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in October 2017.

ePractice September 2017

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in September 2017.

Open Source Observatory September 2017

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in September 2017.

Quick and dirty localisation of TeX/LaTeX Invoice2

This summer, Simon Dierl contributed Invoice2 to TeX/LaTeX, to easily create typeset invoices with automatic VAT and calculation of totals. Here is a makeshift way to change one of the defaults.

ePractice August 2017

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in August 2017.

Open Source Observatory August 2017

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in August 2017.

ePractice July 2017

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in July 2017.

HUGO and Emacs' Org-mode: It Just Works!

Here is a first post in Debian's updated version of Hugo (0.25.1-1) which comes with support for Emacs' Org-Mode.

ePractice June 2017

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in June 2017.

Open Source Observatory May & June 2017

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in May & June 2017.

ePractice May 2017

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in May 2017.

Set Emacs to always print fast drafts in black and white

(setq lpr-switches '("-o PrintoutMode=Draft.Gray"))

Open Source Observatory April 2017

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in March 2017.

ePractice April 2017

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in April 2017.

The i3 window manager, the 2017 Thinkpad X1 Carbon, and XF86MonBrightnessUp XF86MonBrightnessDown

Here is how to get the Fn F6 and Fn F5 keys working on a brand new 2017 Thinkpad X1 Carbon.

ePractice March 2017

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in March 2017.

Open Source Observatory March 2017

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in March 2017.

Switched to Hugo from O-blog

This website has switched from using O-blog to Hugo.

Open Source Observatory February 2017

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in February 2017.

ePractice February 2017

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in February 2017:

Open Source Observatory January 2017

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in January 2017.

ePractice January 2017

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in January 2017:

Open Source Observatory December 2016

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in December 2016.

ePractice December 2016

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in December 2016.

ePractice November 2016

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in November 2016.

Open Source Observatory November 2016

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in November 2016.

ePractice October 2016

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in October 2016.

Open Source Observatory October 2016

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in October 2016.

Open source is terug bij de EU

De nieuwe Europese Commissie (EC) geeft politieke steun aan open source. Eind maart 2015 publiceerde de EC een bijgewerkte open source-strategie om het gebruik van dit type software in de Europese instituten aan te moedigen. De drie zwaartepunten zijn: gelijke kansen voor open source bij aanbestedingen, het bijdragen aan open source-projecten en het vrijgeven van door de EU ontwikkelde software. Aanpassing van het beleid was in december 2014 al aangekondigd.

ePractice September 2016

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in September 2016.

Open Source Observatory September 2016

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published in September 2016 for the European Commission.

ePractice eGovernment August 2016

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in August 2016.

Open Source Observatory August 2016

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published in August 2016 for the European Commission.

ePractice eGovernment July 2016

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in July 2016:

ePractice June 2016

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in June 2016.

Open Source Observatory June 2016

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published in June 2016 for the European Commission.

direct-loading firmware BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e6.hcd

For my Thinkpad X1 Carbon 3460 I finally picked apart the bluetooth driver supplied by Lenovo.

ePractice May 2016

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in May 2016.

Open Source Observatory May 2016

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published in May 2016 for the European Commission.

ePractice headlines April 2016

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in April 2016.

Open Source Observatory April 2016

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published in April 2016 for the European Commission.

Overheid laat voordelen open source links liggen

Wat wil de Nederlandse overheid eigenlijk op ict-gebied?

ePractice March 2016

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in March 2016.

Open Source Observatory March 2016

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published in March 2016 for the European Commission.

ePractice February 2016

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in February 2016:

Open Source Observatory February 2016

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from February 2016, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

Don't accept code from strangers

Or, this message will go to bogus

nnmail-mail-splitting-decodes

Receiving an email that refuses to follow Gnus' client-side filter rules?

Fixing the El Capitan Keychain error 100001

Here is a fix for a pernicious error that prevents users from accessing a Debian server that offers TimeMachine disk space.

logcheck, ssmpt Unable to locate mailhub

You want to use ssmtp to send the output of logcheck, yet see errors such as these?

Installing Debian Jessie on a Netgear ReadyNAS 102

The procedure for installing Debian Jessie on the ReadyNas 102 is very similar to that detailed by Uwe Kleine-Koenig for the ReadyNas 104. There are a few subtle differences, which I document here.

ePractice January 2016

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in January 2016:

Open Source Observatory January 2016

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from January 2016, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

El Capitan & Netatalk2

Migrating a Debian server advertising disk space as TimeMachine to Macs running OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) to Macs running 10.11 (El Capitan) requires the tiniest of changes to the afpd.conf file.

ePractice December 2015

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in December 2015:

Open Source Observatory December 2015

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from December 2015, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

ePractice November 2015

The of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in November 2015.

Open Source Observatory November 2015

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from November 2015, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

Bayes.lock Permission denied or No such file or directory

Using Debian Exim and Cyrus, if these error messages show up in syslog:

Configuring Shorewall to permit Open VPN in Debian

The formidable staff members at OpenOffice in Amsterdam helped me set up a VPN.

ePractice October 2015

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in October 2015.

Open Source Observatory October 2015

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from October 2015, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

ePractice September 2015

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in September 2015.

Open Source Observatory September 2015

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from September 2015, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

ePractice headlines August 2015

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in August 2015:

Open Source Observatory August 2015

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from August 2015, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

ePractice July 2015

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in July 2015:

Open Source Observatory July 2015

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from July 2015, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

Updated o-blog, switched to o-blog 2.6

This web site is now using o-blog version 2.6.

WIFI hotspot Ubuntu phone

How to enable the WIFI hotspot on the Ubuntu bq Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu edition:

ePractice June 2015

The of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in June 2015:

Open Source Observatory June 2015

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from June 2015, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

The i3 window manager and the Thinkpad X1 Carbon multimedia keys

I switched to a new laptop, and noticed that the volume down key stopped working. I had rsynced all the files in my home dir to the new laptop, and it turns out one of these needs a tiny change.

ePractice May 2015

The of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in May 2015.

Open Source Observatory May 2015

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from May 2015, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

ePractice April 2015

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in March 2015:

Open Source Observatory April 2015

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from April 2015, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

Ubuntu phone aka a remote-controlled microphone

touch /userdata/.writable_image reboot device ssh phablet@IP address sudo -s apt-get install url-dispatcher-tool ^d url-dispatcher tel:+3112345678

walk to phone, unlock, select sim card and hit dial

ePractice March 2015

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in March 2015.

Open Source Observatory March 2015

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from March 2015, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

Open source-desktop verbetert TCO met 40 %

Het gebruik van open source verlaagt het totaal van ICT-kosten voor desktop PC’s met 40 procent.

Cyanogenmod 11 Lockscreen text

In Cyanogenmod 11, the lockscreen text can be set in Settings -> Security -> Owner Info

centering source blocks in org-reveal presentations

The past two years, I’ve been using Emacs' Org-Mode to create browser-based presentations. This requires Yujie Wen’s org-reveal.

ePractice February 2015

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in February 2015:

Open Source Observatory February 2015

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from February 2015, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

ePractice January 2015

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in January 2015:

Open Source Observatory January 2015

My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from January 2015, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

ePractice headlines December 2014

The eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in December 2014:

Open Source Observatory December 2014

All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from December 2014, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

ePractice November 2014

The of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in November 2015.

Open Source Observatory November 2014

All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from November 2014, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

ePractice October 2014

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in October 2014.

Open Source Observatory October 2014

All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from October 2014, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

ePractice September 2014

The headlines of the eGovernment (ePractice.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in September 2014.

Open Source Observatory September 2014

All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from September 2014, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

Leave out the CSS and Java scripts when exporting HTML in Org-Mode

The HTML export in Org-Mode by default adds a 123 lines of CSS and Java code. For most of my exports, I don’t need these.

The i3 window manager and the Thinkpad T400s multimedia keys

Earlier, I wrote how to get the multimedia keys working on a Thinkpad T400s. That configuration file depended on using ALSA, but meanwhile Debian switched to PulseAudio, so the configuration needed updating.

Open Source Observatory July 2014

All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) from July 2014, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

Changing your x window manager?

do this

Capgemini zet Europese Commissie voor het blok

Vanuit een Amsterdams datacentrum biedt Capgemini een op open standaarden gebaseerde cloudoplossing voor unified communications, e-mail, agenda, content- en document­beheer, een segment waar Microsoft domineert.

Managing contacts using BBDB - importing CSV exports

The Seattle-based software developer Ian Kelling is doing “free and open source development for fun”.

Open Source Observatory June 2014

All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from June 2014, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

Open Source Observatory April 2014

All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from April 2014, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

BBDB now includes bbdb-pgp

BBDB version 3 has landed in Debian Unstable. And, it now includes bbdd-pgp.

Open Source Observatory March 2014

All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from March 2014, transmogrified into clickable links to the

The empty list is false (in the 'Land of Lisp'

Procrastinators beware: this is a irresistible book: Land of Lisp

Open Source Observatory February 2014

All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from February 2014, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

Open Source Observatory January 2014

All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from January 2014, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

\& = \1 + \2. Or, baby steps in Lisp regexp

Between writing news items, I sometimes twiddle with little pieces of Lisp.

Schools don't floss enough

We need to teach our school kids to use Free Libre Open Source Software

Open Source Observatory December 2013

All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from December 2013, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

Open source bij de politie

De Nederlandse forensische opsporingsdienst iRN, dat onderzoek uitvoert voor de politie en andere overheidsdiensten, gebruikt uitsluitend open source.

No argument left alive

The Dutch police’s Internet Research and Investigation Network (iRN) by default only uses free and open source solutions based on open standards and developed publicly.

Open Source Observatory November 2013

All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from November 2013, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.

Writers need spell checkers

Writers need spell checkers. I use Teemu Likonen’s wheck-mode. (Alternative link: Wcheck-Mode).

ipconfig

Luks, Dropbear and PPP

The Dropbear ssh clients offers support for setting up point-to-point network configurations. For others out there that see errors like this:

This function is useful in a hook

There are three ways to combine Emacs mail clients such as Gnus with version 3 of the BBDB rolodex and GPG encryption.

If arg is nil, return nil

Legacy code (2) or overhauling bbdb-pgp

Europas Behörden vertrauen zunehmend auf Open-Source-Software

In Europa wird der Einsatz von Open-Source-Software allmählich zur Erfolgsstory.

New code is legacy code (1)

To generate this site, I’m using o-blog, written by Sébastien Gross. More precisely, I’m using the slightly polished set-up written by Sebastian Wiesner, at Lunaryorn.

The total cost of ownership of free software

It took them a few months, they said, but the folks at Syone, ESOP and Caixa Mágica in Portugal managed a great line-up for the Evento Linux conference, on 26 September 2013.

Emacs, social media and walled gardens

It would be great if Emacs had modes for some of the social networks and walled gardens. Or if there was a mode that would allow users to post messages to these networks and services.

Goodbye Drupal, hello o-blog

This was the final release for Drupal on this host: I’m discharging it. Drupal is an impressive CMS, but too complex for a simple web site such as this one.

De 10 belangrijkste ontwikkelingen in ICT

De ICT is nooit een saaie sector geweest, maar de turbulentie is anno 2013 groter dan ooit.

New GnuPG key

–—BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE–— Hash: SHA256,SHA1

Former CIO of Swiss Intellectual Property Institute praises open source

Public administrations need not fear switching to open source, says Matthias Günter, until last month CIO of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property. “Wherever we use it, after the usual careful selection that we apply to any software implementation, it proves its worth.”

'TCO should include exit costs and cost of vendor lock-in'

Exit costs, the cost of IT vendor lock-in, the cost of network effects and innovation should be included in any Total Cost of Ownership financial estimate of IT projects, says the OpenForum Academy, a think-tank.

Advocacy groups decry Freiburg's stealth return to proprietary office

The board of the German city council of Freiburg should disclose the analysis that underlies its move back to proprietary office software, say the Open Source Business Alliance, the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Bundesverbands Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie.

Report shows meagre rise in use of open source by parliaments

Parliaments around the world are only slowly increasing their use of free and open source solutions, according to the World e-Parliament Report 2012, published last week.

Luxembourg's cadastre administration prefers to use open source

The cadastre administration in Luxembourg uses open source software solutions where possible.

Spain's e-gov centre

Spain’s public administrations are aware of the advantages of sharing and reusing software solutions.

Absent interoperability in desktop applications locks-in Mannheim city

The 4200 desktop PCs used in the public administration of the German city of Mannheim are completely locked-in by proprietary software, says head of the city’s IT infrastructure department, Gerd Armbruster.

How to get the multimedia keys working on a Thinkpad T400s

A 4 line mini howto “get the multimedia keys working on a Thinkpad T400s”. This laptop is running Debian Sid, yet this will work for other distro’s too.

Mayor of Munich

All laptops used by European officials should have either LibreOffice or OpenOffice installed, two open source suites of office applications. This suggest the mayor of the German city of Munich, Christian Ude, to Neelie Kroes.

Waterschap zoekt 'open source' Microsoft

Het Rotterdamse waterschap vraagt in een aanbesteding specifiek om Microsoft, maar zegt tegelijkertijd over te willen op open source. Het zoekt in feite een leverancier van open source Microsoft.

Emacs' Gnus search and marking messages by email header

“This is a note, more to myself, on Emacs' Gnus (certainly among the best email clients ever).

Edit with Emacs

Alex Bennée yesterday released the latest version of “Edit with Emacs” to the Google Chrome web-store.

Haal goud uit informatie

“Bedrijven krijgen terabytes vol klantgedrag en marktinformatie op zich af.

Linux CLI tip

Is your browser’s download folder slowly filling up with copies of pdf’s and other files that you downloaded twice or more times?

Steekproef wijst uit

“Gemeenten falen met het digitaal opslaan van documenten. Dat blijkt uit een minimale steekproef onder twaalf Nederlandse gemeenten.

Gemeente Ede verlost van mailergernissen

“Zonder al te veel moeite zet de gemeente Ede begin juni duizend medewerkers over op mail- en agendaserver Zarafa. De gebruikers krijgen eindelijk op afstand toegang tot hun e-mail en agenda, zowel thuis op hun Mac als onderweg op een willekeurige smartphone. Het grootst is de schok voor de Exchange-beheerder. Hij ziet de Linux-cursus niet zitten en heeft daarom nu een alternatieve functie.

Nog geen plannen vervolg NOiV

Nederland Open in Verbinding ziet zelf nog wel een taak

‘Open source krijgt geen kans’

SP Amsterdam-Oost vermoedt obstructie

Open-sourcemailserver populair

“Zarafa, een in Nederland ontwikkeld alternatief voor Microsofts mailserver Exchange, neemt bij gemeenten in populariteit toe. In twee jaar tijd haalde het in Nederland een marktaandeel van 5 procent. In Nederland werken inmiddels twaalf gemeenten met Zarafa, in Vlaanderen zijn het er 22. Vooral bij middelgrote gemeenten groeit de belangstelling.

Tegenslag voor open source

Gemeenten Heerenveen en Amsterdam voelen zich in de steek gelaten

‘Hergebruik overheidssoftware moet makkelijker’

EC legt accent op uitwisselbaarheid in open source

NMa zit vast aan Microsoft

Niet volgens de regels uitgevoerde aanbesteding zette mededingingsautoriteit klem

Bespaar drastisch op IT

Bedrijven en overheid betalen miljoenen teveel voor hun IT. Hoofdoorzaak: gebrek aan concurrentie.

Overheid negeert voordelen leveranciersonafhankelijkheid

Eerste resultaten van promotieonderzoek

A row of zeros was returned

I did some adding and subtracting, using as input my articles for the OSOR.eu. In total, Europe’s member states and the European institutions employ a little over 15 million civil servants. Turns out, only six thousand of them work on a computer running an open source desktop system.

German court confirms ADSL router is a computer like any other

German maker of ADSL terminals wants rival to stop modifying its Linux

Ministerie verzet zich tegen vendor lock-in

OpenOffice en Firefox op desktops Buitenlandse Zaken

XBRL naarstig op zoek naar de businesscase

Grote overheidsorganisaties zien winst voor bedrijfsprocessen

Lack of political support hinders open source desktop

Of the fifteen million civil servants in the member states of the European Union, those in education and health care not included, 105 thousand use a PC running an open source operating system.

NLUUG stelt leveringsvoorwaarden voor open source op

Gevolgen open source zijn anders voor opdrachtgevers

Free tools will prevent firms burning fingers on open source

A Dutch software engineer and an Irish political scientist have just published tools to help firms avoid violating open source licences.

Open standaarden niet van harte ingevoerd

Overheid Actieplan NOiV niet naar de geest nageleefd

Open source geen onderwerp bij onderwijs

Open source en open standaarden zijn voor het ICT-onderwijs geen onderwerp. Het aantal scholen dat hier aandacht voor heeft, is op de vingers van éé1n hand te tellen.

Nederlandse politie houdt vast aan Microsoft-software

Franse gendarmerie bespaart miljoenen met open source

Overheden mogen merken uitsluiten

Aanbesteding Tegenslag voor Nederland Open in Verbinding

'Vendor lock-in geen excuus'

Overstapkosten voor overheid geen valide reden om af te zien van open source

Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken trekt opdracht in

Grote leveranciers in verzet tegen foute aanbestedingen

Gemeenten niet overtuigd van Microsofts licentieovereenkomst

“Microsoft heeft geen goede argumenten waarmee het gemeenten kan overhalen bestaande softwarelicenties te verlengen. Dat zeggen IT-beleidsmedewerkers bij de gemeenten Enschede, Den Haag en Leeuwarden.

Overheid snapt zelf­opgestelde regels niet

Gehanteerde teksten sluiten alternatieven uit

Overheden massaal in de fout bij aanbesteden

Aanbestedingen Europese richtlijnen worden bij tenders regelmatig overtreden

Commission tailors GNU/Linux server specialised in blogs

The European Commission’s IDABC unit responsible for the Open Source Software Observatory and Repository (OSOR) will publish it’s own derivative of Debian GNU/Linux to provide organisations with an easy way to create blogs and forums, the unit announced on Friday.

Many software tenders in EU maybe 'illegal'

Software tenders by European public administration often may not comply with EU regulations, illegally favouring proprietary applications. “These tenders could be protested against, and if necessary the tendering organisations could be taken to court”, said Karel De Vriendt, head of the IDABC unit responsible for the Open Source Software Observatory and Repository (osor.eu).

Open source licence violations manual published

Sleuth’s toolkit includes soldering instructions

'Changes to GPL beneficial for government's use of Open Source'

The new version of the GNU General Public Licens (GPLv3) has increased the usefulness of the licence to the French government, says Thierry Aimé, an IT architect at the French ministry of Finance.

De IT kan de deur uit

Een slim bedrijf doet de IT de deur uit. Wie goed kijkt naar de IT-trends ziet dat alles gaat naar Internet. Alleen, het is nog niet zover. Tot die tijd blijven IT’ers bezig aan het verbeteren van hun aanpak en verzinnen ze daarvoor de vreemdste terminologie. Iemand zin in Cloud Computing?

Freelancer binden vraagt de nodige zorg

“Bedrijven die zelfstandigen zonder personeel (ZZP-ers) willen binden, doen dat vooral door te zorgen voor een correcte administratie die voldoet aan alle wettelijk eisen, en door facturen op tijd te betalen.

Nederlandse Open Source Exchange-variant breekt internationaal door

Zarafa, de op Linux, Mysql en Apache lopende kloon van Microsoft’s Exchange-server, wordt nagenoeg geheel open source. Het snelgroeiende bedrijf uit Delft hoopt zo de gemeenschap van software-ontwikkelaars aan te moedigen.

ODF made national standard in Sweden

The Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) approved the Open Document Format (ODF) as a national standard, the ODF Alliance reported this week.

Goud gaat draaien op Vista

Drie van de vijf bieders op overheidsdesktop haken af

De revolutie begint (weer) in Frankrijk

De Gendarmerie zet 70.000 desktops over op Ubuntu

Ondertussen

Overheden verzetten zich hevig tegen de bestuurlijke veranderingen die Internet veroorzaakt. De mogelijkheden tot procesverandering worden beperkt gehouden. Dat zegt Jacques Wallage, burgemeester van Groningen, op 15 november in Amsterdam bij een bijeenkomst over het inzetten van internet voor politiek bestuur. De overheid zit vast in belangen en tradities, die slechts af en toe verbindingen met de buitenwereld wil.

‘Overheid open u

Het kabinet wil dat de overheid open ICT-standaarden gaat gebruiken en opensource software inzet.

Aanvalsplan

Ministerie overweegt afdwingen open standaard

Verborgen vraag (not)

Cijfers belastingdienst over gebruik van Linux

De cijfers van de Belastingdienst over het gebruik van Linux duiden op een verborgen vraag naar dit besturingssysteem.

EQUITY 2007 Report

The goal of this conference is to set up a new research field to study IT value and its components, says co-chair Elliot Chikofsky, chief consultant of Engineering Management and Integration, an IT consultancy firm, in his opening statement.

Italian parliament bets house on SuSE Linux

Two-year switch to begin in September

Italy’s parliament is about to undertake Europe’s largest governmental migration yet to open sauce.

Agenda in ascii

De komende versie van Emacs, duidelijk ’s werelds meest veelzijdige editor, bevat Org. Het is een programma voor het maken van notities, bijhouden van taaklijstjes en het plannen van projecten. De software is grotendeels in Amsterdam geschreven. Het is echter niet de enige planner-software voor Emacs. Eén veelgebruikte concurrent is Planner.

Taking the measure of IT

“Managers who purchase IT equipment don’t have any easy life.

Open taal

Ondersteuning voor Groene én Witte spelling

De beste spelchecker voor de Nederlandse taal is zo openbaar als de taal zelf.

Linksys fails comprehensive reading test

Corrects copyright error, violates GPL licence

Linksys has a hard time understanding software licences.

Naamloos

Anonieme Linuxcode geweigerd

Niet langer kunnen anonieme auteurs bijdragen leveren aan de Linuxkernel.

Doubts dog anonymous Thinkpad code for Linux kernel

You can code, but you cannot hide

Doubts have arisen over lines of code an anonymous submitter sent to the Linux kernel mailing list on August 6th, http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/6/17 here. The programmer is hiding behind a pseudonym, Shem Multinymous. Fellow Kernel programmers are divided over accepting the code or not.

Finding needles in bigger haystacks

“The business of storing data is growing at a record pace, presenting new challenges for those who want to make sense of it all.

Open source scheelt geld

Open source software inzetten levert aanzienlijke besparingen op, zo blijkt uit drie Nederlandse implementaties

IT budgets

“Does the rising amount spent on IT maintenance come at the expense of innovation?

Nix houdt het overzicht (Nix keeps an overview)

The problem of installation, distribution and maintenance of software can be solved, says Eelco Dolstra, a computer scientist.

Interview met Bram Moolenaar

Live from the living room of the VIM author

Boeren via de computer

Voedselveiligheid dwingt tot automatisering

NOS zoekt nerds

Kandidaten moeten alles weten van Pretty Good Privacy en Secure Shell