The main goal of the new section is to raise awareness and facilitate understanding on this type of software as the responsible of the site explain. It also "should help to effectuate change in the government policies and practices to better utilise open source software and help create and assist collaboration of communities". The section further focuses on the benefits of open source, including reliability, choice, innovation, security and price.
Apart from introducing this type of software, the new section - found under 'publications' on the web site's main menu - contains articles on open source, links to the government's open source policy, to the European Union Public License (EUPL) and the General Public License (GPL) and to Malta's open source communities. It also reviews open source projects (currently the mind mapping application Freemind).
The site presents visitors with a list of popular open source applications, suggesting for example the use of Ubuntu GNU/Linux as for desktop systems, and Libre Office, OpenOffice or KOffice for office productivity tools, while also containing a link to OSOR.eu.
In October 2010, MITA launched a public consultation on the use of open source by public administrations. Suggestions are still welcome, and can be submitted through the site. Last summer, the government updated its open source software directive, instructing public administrations to consider open source solutions in their Information Technologies (IT) projects.
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Quelle/Source: epractice, 11.03.2011
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