LocalFOSS

In a far reaching plan announced on friday 29th July, the government of Extremadura has announced that will be switching all of its PC's across to gnuLinex (a locally developed Linux distribution) and ODF.

"All the computers of the Junta of Extremadura (goverment state of Spain) will be running free software within a year. This project makes the Regional Government the first Public Administration to adopt standards upheld by international organizations, that favour 'technological innovation and the reduction of user dependency.'" said Luis Milln de Vzquez de Miguel, Infrastructures and Technological Development counciller for the Extermadura government.

Thanks to Vlatko Kosturjak, we have a summary of the Croatian governments' Open Source Policy:

• As much as is possible government institutions will choose and/or develop Open Source solutions over closed source.
• The goverment will support localisation of programs and solutions, and it
  will support development of closed source solutions which use open
  protocol and formats, and which are developed in Croatia.
• The goverment will support the use of open source programs, protocols and
  formats outside of it's institutions.
• The goverment will support use of open source solutions in educational