Hi,
it was great to see many of you at FSCONS this weekend, and to sit down and talk for a while! I'm following up on the different actions we agreed, one by one.
As a start, please find attached the promised procurement documents from Sweden's public sector IT procurement authority (Kammarkollegiet). This is about a call for tender for framework contracts to provide Free Software to Swedish municipalities.
They're in Swedish, but otherwise fully public and distributable.
I haven't had time to run them through translation yet, so I don't really know what's in them. If they're good (which is what I assume), then these make a great example of public procurement done right, and we should push them wherever possible.
Best regards, Karsten
ke, 2010-11-10 kello 11:22 +0100, Karsten Gerloff kirjoitti:
Hi,
it was great to see many of you at FSCONS this weekend, and to sit down and talk for a while! I'm following up on the different actions we agreed, one by one.
Same here!
As a start, please find attached the promised procurement documents from Sweden's public sector IT procurement authority (Kammarkollegiet). This is about a call for tender for framework contracts to provide Free Software to Swedish municipalities.
They're in Swedish, but otherwise fully public and distributable.
I haven't had time to run them through translation yet, so I don't really know what's in them. If they're good (which is what I assume), then these make a great example of public procurement done right, and we should push them wherever possible.
Related, in Finland the government published a guide on FOSS procurment: http://www.jhs-suositukset.fi/web/guest/jhs/recommendations/169
I heard on Tuesday that they are in the have plans of translating it into English. I hope they do, since the guide is quite good (COSS participated in writing it).
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:11:08PM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
Related, in Finland the government published a guide on FOSS procurment: http://www.jhs-suositukset.fi/web/guest/jhs/recommendations/169
I heard on Tuesday that they are in the have plans of translating it into English. I hope they do, since the guide is quite good (COSS participated in writing it).
Interesting! Thanks for the pointer.
Would someone on this list perhaps have time to dig up the parts that deal with Free Software and Open Standards (including their definition of an Open Standard, if any), and provide a summary of the key points in English?
As I mentioned, the EC is currently open to input on the topic. But my contacts there don't speak Finnish...
Thanks & best, Karsten