{"id":2811,"date":"2013-10-01T12:41:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T12:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2013-10-01T12:41:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T12:41:18","slug":"italys-macerata-province-halfway-through-libreoffice-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2811","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s Macerata province halfway through LibreOffice migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2012\/10\/LibreOffice.png\" alt=\"the LibreOffice logo\" width=\"128\" height=\"48\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-268\" \/>Joinup, the EU&#8217;s public sector open source news site, <a href=\"https:\/\/joinup.ec.europa.eu\/community\/osor\/news\/italian-province-macerata-halfway-libreoffice-migration\">reports<\/a> that Italy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.provincia.mc.it\/\">Macerata province<\/a> is halfway its migration to the free and open source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\">LibreOffice<\/a> suite as a replacement for Microsoft Office. LibreOffice is currently used on 230 of its 450 workstations. The migration is expected to be completed in December next year. <\/p>\n<p>The same article also reports that Windows is being replaced by Linux as the workstation operating system used for non-specialised tasks on the provincial government&#8217;s PCs.<\/p>\n<p>These moves are expected to save the provincial authority some &euro;150,000 in 2014. For Italy as a whole, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asca.it\/newsregioni-Marche_Province__Macerata_all_avanguardia_promozione_software_libero-1316934-.html\">Asca news agency states<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/conference.libreoffice.org\/2013\/en\/program\">LibreOffice 2013 Conference in Milan<\/a> was told that migrating the public sector to LibreOffice could save the public purse &euro;300-500 mn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joinup, the EU&#8217;s public sector open source news site, reports that Italy&#8217;s Macerata province is halfway its migration to the free and open source LibreOffice suite as a replacement for Microsoft Office. LibreOffice is currently used on 230 of its 450 workstations. The migration is expected to be completed in December next year. The same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,9],"tags":[19,24,12,11,23],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","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\/2811","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=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}