{"id":244,"date":"2012-10-02T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=244"},"modified":"2012-11-02T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T13:41:16","slug":"italys-umbria-region-adopts-libre-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Italy’s Umbria region adopts LibreOffice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Location
Location map for Umbria. Picture courtesy of Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>It’s not just self-employed wordsmiths such as myself that are moving away from overpriced proprietary office suites towards free and open source alternatives: cash-strapped public sector organisations are doing so too. <\/p>\n

EU open source news website Joinup reports<\/a> that the Administration the Italian region of Umbria has started a project to migrate an initial group of 5,000 users to LibreOffice<\/a>. Osvaldo Gervasi, president of Umbria’s Open Source Competence Centre – CCOS – states that getting rid of IT vendor lock-in is one of the main motives for the migration.<\/p>\n

As part of the move, the region will also be adopting LibreOffice’s default Open Document Format<\/a> as an open document standard.<\/p>\n

The legal basis for the migration is a 2006 regional law promoting the use of free and open source software by the public sector in Umbria.<\/p>\n

According to the Libre Umbria blog<\/a>, the project involves the Provinces of Perugia and Terni, Local Health Unit no. 2 and the Region of Umbria, and is being co-ordinated by the Consortium of Umbrian Authorities (Consorzio SIR Umbria) and CCOS Umbria.<\/p>\n

The story is also covered by La Stampa<\/a> (in Italian).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not just self-employed wordsmiths such as myself that are moving away from overpriced proprietary office suites towards free and open source alternatives: cash-strapped public sector organisations are doing so too. EU open source news website Joinup reports that the Administration the Italian region of Umbria has started a project to migrate an initial group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[19,24,12,11,23],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-odf","tag-open-source","tag-open-standards","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}