Free Software In Sweden

Swedish 'situation' in 30 minutes?

Will try to explain Sweden so we can discuss afterwards....

EducationResearch

CommunityCompanies

Public sector

University

Higher Vocational Education

Education

University

IT University in Gothenburg

Foundations of Free SoftwareApplied Free SoftwareOpen Source/Free Software - Philosophy & theoryOpen Source/Free Source/Free - Political & ekonomical aspects

Education

Research

OSS 2.0Biz modelsGift society

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Research

How Open Are Local Governments Documents in Sweden? A case for Open Standards

Björn Lundell & Brian Lings

Research

Local governments

1. Send question in an “open document”2. Ask for latest minute meeting3. What policies are in place for procurement

Research

Local governments – result

Application – formatLittle awareness of open standard document formatTension between policy and practice

Research

Local governments – result

1999(2008) Format used74% (57%) doc 18% (38%) pdf 6% (3%) rtf 2% (2%) misc

Research

Local governments – result

1999(2008) Apllication used96% (89%) MS Word 3% (10%) Scanner 1% (0%) WordPerfect 0% (1%) OOo

Research

Local governments – problem

Some couldn't read the file sent

Some old files could not be opened .. with the same application as they were written in

Research

Local governments – comments

Application – formatLittle awareness of open standard document formatTension between policy and practiceBetter in smaller (local) governments

Community

Foss-sthlmFSCONS

Community

Foss-sthlm

#01 – 185 guests#02 – 107 guests#03 – xxx guests#04 – 95 guests

Community

FSCONS

2007 – 2002008 – 2202009 – 2502010 – 300

Community

Curl, Mozilla Thunderbird, GNOME, GNU, trac, …....

Companies

Companies

Op5RedPill, LinPro

PelagicoreSouthpole

KDAB

Companies

Op5 – interesting example

Package existing programsCommits upstream

Op5 developer in Nagios boardCourses, deployment, adaptions, support

Proprietary add-ons

Public sector

Public sector

Public SectorAlingsås San Remo

The happy baker in San Remo

The happy baker bakes the best bread one can get,

not even in Alingsås you can get better

Public Sector

Kivos – Kommunsamverkan I Väst Open Source

15 municpilaties in Sweden - working together working together promoting use of software based on free software and open standards

Public Sector

Kivos – Kommunsamverkan I Väst Open Source

- We believe in Open Standard, but also in Open Source

Public Sector

Kivos - Alingsås

First: price issueNow: prevent vendor lock in

Public Sector

Kivos - Alingsås

80% Open Office (Org)20% MS Word

Public Sector

Kivos - Alingsås

Already used spamassassin, apache …Now time for end users

Public Sector

Kivos - Alingsås

Want to share results from studies and research with other municipalities

Public Sector

Kivos - Alingsås

AGPL would be the preferred license

Public Sector

The Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency

Public Sector

The Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency

Coordinate Swedish Procurement

Public Sector

The Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency

Focus on open software and software as a service

Public Sector

The Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency

Sweden 2009 – 150 M euro

Public Sector

Anna-Karin Hatt - Minister for Information Technology and Regional Affairs, Ministry of

Enterprise, Energy and Communications

“One way to lead the state is to be the good example. Therefor the state shall proceed when it

comes to Open Source, Open Standards, Ipv6 and DNSsec”