Open Source - Victoria
Articles and resources about trends and issues in the use of open source software in the Victorian government.
- Victorian report calls for open source
- by Paul Smith. MIS Financial Review, Thursday, 25 June 2009. "A report tabled by the Victorian parliament's Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee yesterday calling for improved access to state government information had a sting in the tail for leading technology vendors such as Microsoft..."
- Software Freedom Day - Melbourne
Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to tell people about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Melbourne Town Hall organised by computerbank victoria The Software Freedom Day Bazaar, will have demo zones for a huge range of Free and Open Source Software, with representatives from the Melbourne Free and Open source software community. Event: Software Freedom Day Bazaar; Where: Melbourne Town Hall, Swanston Street Melbourne; When: 11am - 4pm, Saturday 15 September, 2007; Cost: Free!
- "Locked down" Linux dispenses Justice
- By Iain Ferguson. ZDNet Australia, 27 June 2006. "The Victorian Department of Justice (DoJ) is understood to have deployed a secure, "locked-down" Linux environment across more than 100 desktops in a state correctional facility..."
- Open source key to Victorian schools
- By Renai LeMay. ZDNet Australia, 1 March 2006. "Victoria's Department of Education and Training is continuing to develop in-house server software it built on top of open-source tools to bring its state-wide wireless network to life..."
- Vic govt ZAPPs largest open source project
- by Rodney Gedda. Computerworld, 15 December 2005. "In what is believed to be the largest open source project ever developed in Australia, Victoria's Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) has spent the past two years and $1.2 million on a new content portal which will go live early next year..."
This category last updated: 19 December 2005