We have begun this series of articles focusing on Free Software deployments in Polish government departments with the article OpenOffice.org in Łeba. Today we are introducing yet another example of a well-done implementation of OpenOffice.org, in Town Council of Katowice.
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The issue of Polish institutions and public administration in general, being dependent on closed-source software providers, the main one being Microsoft, is largely spoken about. There are exceptions among the institutions however, and one of them will be featured in our today’s article. We hope that it will be a pilot of a series of [...]

Numerous media have recently informed that Polish government will be giving away laptops to every kid in the country. The project will cost about 500 mln PLN (250 mln USD) yearly over the next couple of years and first laptops will be handed as early as September 2009. Borys Musielak has done a write-up on [...]

Tomasz Bednarski (Mandriva Poland) wrote a letter to PKN president, Tomasz Schweitzer, in which he expressed his concerns about the Polish OOXML ratification process which Bednarski took part of, as a member of the technical committee 182. We publish the translation of his letter and the response from Schweitzer.

In the just released press message of PKN (Polish Standarization Institute), we read that the vote of Poland in ISO will be to recommend approving Office Open XML as an ISO standard.
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This is a follow-up post to my recent report on OOXML process in Poland. It looks like things are going bad this time. At least as bad as in October

Last Thursday PKN (Polish Normalization Committee) had a meeting on which it was supposed to come up with the decision concerning Polish recommendation for ISO/IEC DIS 29500 (OOXML) proposed standard. The common stance has not been acheived.

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Technical Committee 182 decided on August 30th to accept Microsoft format Office Open XML as an ISO standard. Another committee already voted against OOXML last week, but the KT 182 decision is the final vote of Poland sent to ISO on August 31th.
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