The government of the Ile-de-France region teamed up with The Document Foundation to provide a 'Software as a service' (SaaS) version of LibreOffice - the Foundation's free office suite - to a wide range of upper secondary education actors, it was announced at the LibreOffice Conference held in Paris on 12-15 October 2011.

The government of the Ile-de-France region teamed up with The Document Foundation to provide a 'Software as a service' (SaaS) version of LibreOffice - the Foundation's free office suite - to a wide range of upper secondary education actors, it was announced at the LibreOffice Conference held in Paris on 12-15 October 2011.

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The government of the Ile-de-France region teamed up with The Document Foundation to provide a 'Software as a service' (SaaS) version of LibreOffice - the Foundation's free office suite - to a wide range of upper secondary education actors, it was announced at the LibreOffice Conference held in Paris on 12-15 October 2011.

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Amendments to France's draft law on 'reinforcing consumers' rights, protection and information' have been proposed with the purpose of putting an end to bundled hardware/software sales, the French advocacy organisation for free software and open standards APRIL announced on 27 September 2011.

Amendments to France's draft law on 'reinforcing consumers' rights, protection and information' have been proposed with the purpose of putting an end to bundled hardware/software sales, the French advocacy organisation for free software and open standards APRIL announced on 27 September 2011.

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The Scriba eBook Maker, an open source tool to create documents for e-readers, is helping to reduce the wasting of paper in the Italian Parliament. Senators are increasingly combining smart phones and tablet devices with the Scriba e-document service, offering them a practical access to all kinds of documents.

The Scriba eBook Maker, an open source tool to create documents for e-readers, is helping to reduce the wasting of paper in the Italian Parliament. Senators are increasingly combining smart phones and tablet devices with the Scriba e-document service, offering them a practical access to all kinds of documents.

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The Scriba eBook Maker, an open source tool to create documents for e-readers, is helping to reduce the wasting of paper in the Italian Parliament. Senators are increasingly combining smart phones and tablet devices with the Scriba e-document service, offering them a practical access to all kinds of documents.

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On 1 July 2011, the Brazilian Government signed a letter of intent to work with both The Document Foundation and the Apache OpenOffice.org community to develop the Office Suite platforms maintained by both communities.

On 1 July 2011, the Brazilian Government signed a letter of intent to work with both The Document Foundation and the Apache OpenOffice.org community to develop the Office Suite platforms maintained by both communities.

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On 1 July 2011, the Brazilian Government signed a letter of intent to work with both The Document Foundation and the Apache OpenOffice.org community to develop the Office Suite platforms maintained by both communities.

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Public administrations feel no need for interoperability, since the vast majority is using the same office suite, finds Andreas Kawohl, project leader on open standards at the IT department at the city council of Freiburg. "To our users, interoperability means nothing."

Public administrations feel no need for interoperability, since the vast majority is using the same office suite, finds Andreas Kawohl, project leader on open standards at the IT department at the city council of Freiburg. "To our users, interoperability means nothing."

Kawohl was one of the speakers at the ODF plugfest, hosted by Germany's Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, which took place in Berlin on 14 and 15 July.

Public administrations feel no need for interoperability, since the vast majority is using the same office suite, finds Andreas Kawohl, project leader on open standards at the IT department at the city council of Freiburg. "To our users, interoperability means nothing."

Kawohl was one of the speakers at the ODF plugfest, hosted by Germany's Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, which took place in Berlin on 14 and 15 July.