Xena is free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia to aid in the long term preservation of digital records. Xena is an acronym meaning 'Xml Electronic Normalising for Archives'.
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Largo still loves Linux
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This small city on Florida's Gulf Coast runs one of the most cost-effective municipal IT departments around. I last wrote about Largo's Linux-based client-server network in 2002. A lot has changed for Largo's computer-using city employees since then, and even more changes are in the works.
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Women in the new Web 2.0 political world in Ecuador
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"...Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa pays homage to Max Headroom in a funny, low-budget YouTube clip promoting his new blog; in another video, he asks everyone to use free software. He is encouraging the entire country to start blogging and using social networks and YouTube for the power of collective action.
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Decision on open source in December for Amsterdam Government
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17 September 2007 - All government agencies must change to open source software, the national government says in an action plan presented today. Amsterdam is already testing such software and will decide on whether to renew its Microsoft contract in December.
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FSFE, Samba: A triumph for freedom of choice and competition
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"Through tactics that successfully derailed antitrust processes in other parts of the world, including the United States, Microsoft has managed to postpone this day for almost a decade. But thanks to the perseverance and excellent work of the European Commission, these tactics have now failed in Europe,"
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Ubuntu Finland delivered Ubuntu to Finnish parliament representatives
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"...The purpose of this campaign is to make the representatives more aware of free software and its possibilities in schools and in administration...."
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Fraser-Moleketi appointed OSS patron
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Public service and administration minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi has accepted an invitation to become patron of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA).
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UK Government's response to iPlayer e-petition
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The BBC Trust has responsibility for ensuring that the correct degree of scrutiny is given to all proposals from the BBC Executive for new services (such as the iPlayer) and any significant changes to existing services.In the case of the iPlayer, following the consultation, the Trust noted the strong public demand for the service to be available on a variety of operating systems.
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Open Tuesday reveals government OSS plan
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Get a chance to meet the man in charge of managing government's free and open source software (FOSS) migration at this month's Open Tuesday event in Joburg. Arno Webb will talk on the opportunities that this migration will open up for those involved in open source.
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How public money should not be spent
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The article is in portuguese and is about a decision of the portuguese government to decided to launch a conflict mediation court on Second Life.
It would be interesting if our country had a spectacular justice system that worked.
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Govt OSS migration will need skills
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Governments looking to migrate to open source software (OSS) will need to ramp up their internal skills base, according to Gartner analyst Andrea Di Maio.
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BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump GNU/Linux
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Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based - which means he is being forced to ditch Linux - or face being barred from the internet.
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Still waiting for swap prefetch
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It has been almost two years since LWN covered the swap prefetch patch. This work, done by Con Kolivas, is based on the idea that if a system is idle, and it has pushed user data out to swap, perhaps it should spend a little time speculatively fetching that swapped data back into any free memory that might be sitting around.
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Allahabad High Court Deploys 15,000 GNU/Linux laptops
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According to this story, the Allahabad High Court has rolled out a new website, as well as deploying 15,000 laptops running GNU/Linux. The site does not specify which distribution, but I am assuming a GNOME-centric distribution, since Evolution is listed as the PIM software.
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California city connects with open-source networking
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The city of Madera, Calif., has spent the last year successfully running an open-source-based network as a replacement for one based on Cisco gear.
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