{"id":2144,"date":"2013-06-25T14:41:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T14:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2013-06-25T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T14:50:00","slug":"genoa-to-use-open-source-wherever-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2144","title":{"rendered":"Genoa to use open source &#8216;wherever possible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/06\/Stemma_di_Genova.png\" alt=\"Genoa coat of arms\" width=\"200\" height=\"141\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2145\" \/>The City of Genoa in Italy is now encouraging the use of free and open source software and is saving local taxpayers more than &euro;100,000 per year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettera43.it\/tecnologia\/scenari\/internet-genova-punta-sull-open-source_4367599239.htm\">Lettera43 reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Municipality of Genoa has decided to promote the use of free software and open source to save more than &euro;100,000 a year. The council has already begun to use free software for services such as email, civil registry (births, marriages and deaths) and its intranet.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, trials are underway in nursery schools with e-learning and the use of PCs with free software and new groupware tools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Free software, basically free, is a software in which the source code is accessible to all, editable by all,&#8221; said councillor Isabella Lanzone. &#8220;It will help us to free ourselves from the monopolies of the big computer companies and limit local government costs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, <a href=\"http:\/\/joinup.ec.europa.eu\/community\/osor\/news\/italian-genoa-use-open-source-wherever-possible\">Joinup, the EU&#8217;s public sector open source news site, writes<\/a> that Genoa will use open source &#8216;wherever possible&#8217;. The council is to start using the image manipulation tool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">Gimp<\/a>, document archive solutions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7-zip.org\/\">7Zip<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/pdfcreator\/\">PDFCreator<\/a>, as well as testing the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/qgis.osgeo.org\/\">Quantum GIS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opengis.es\/index.php?lang=en\">Kosmo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postgresql.org\/\">Postgres<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/postgis.net\/\">PostGIS<\/a> for its Geographical Information Systems (GIS).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the council has announced it will be using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OpenDocument\">Open Document Format<\/a> as the standard format for its electronic documents.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the city is to use Linux for a number of PCs meant to be used by council staff members that do not have access to a computer by default to enable them to access the council&#8217;s personnel resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Genoa in Italy is now encouraging the use of free and open source software and is saving local taxpayers more than &euro;100,000 per year, Lettera43 reports. The Municipality of Genoa has decided to promote the use of free software and open source to save more than &euro;100,000 a year. The council has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,15],"tags":[19,12,11,20,23],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","category-politics","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-open-standards","tag-politics-2","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}