Far from the military actions themselves, the United States Pentagon is one of the places in the world where much of the work, such as reporting, briefings, data management and management tasks, are carried out with computer software. Next year a great change could be built, since there is a proposed bill to stop using proprietary software in favor of Open Source.
SIMO EDUCATION 2017 brought together the professional community of teaching at IFEMA (Madrid) from 25th to 27th of last October. The fair received the visit of 9,442 professionals, 15% more than in 2016, and announced news of 231 companies from 18 countries. These data make it a reference event in our country in the field of technological innovation at the service of teaching.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has launched an initiative to try to convince European governments that any software paid with citizens’ tax money should always be published as Free Software and Open Source. Under the motto “Public money? Public Code!” call for citizens, companies and organizations of all types to join this campaign so that the code paid by citizens is available to citizens by law.
The use of free software is increasingly being spread among public institutions due to the significant savings it entails. A recent example is the Puçol town hall in Valencia, which has just established the GNU / Linux operating system LliureX. The first pilot experience with this software has meant a saving of 25,000 euros in licenses.
The city of Rome, the fourth-largest city in the European Union, will increase its use of free and open source software, it decided in October. All new software solutions will be based on open source, and the city is to consider replacing existing proprietary solutions by open source alternatives.
