Archive for May, 2010

Government of Malta launch Open Source Policy

The Official Government Website for GMICT policy has been updated bringing to life a number of new GMICT Policies, amongst them the Open Source Policy. The Open Source Policy and Directive calls for the Public Administration to seek to adopt cost-effective and non-disruptive open source software solutions.  It also calls Public Administrations to seek to [...]

Further OSS related Events in Malta

Following the OSS related events last April in Malta,  Ricston Ltd recently announced that “Ricston is offering training workshops as part of a Developer Conference it is organising on Open Source with attendance free of charge to those that register while seats remain available.”  More information is available in the events section or directly on [...]

Open Participation for an OSS ecosystem

Following the advert on the local newspapers, the Government of Malta Open Source End User Group was launched on Friday 30th April 2010 at MITA.  According to the presenters, participants from all important pillars were present for the meeting, that include clients, solution providers, training providers, educational institutions including ICT Faculty of the University of [...]