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The Dutch police force will move to open source wherever that is possible, but not exclusively, a spokesperson said this week, correcting a statement published by Linux distributor Red Hat a week ago.

Probably biggest edUbuntu deployment in an educational system with around 100,000 workstations suffers from lack of relevant e-content, so the students--beneficiaries of Computer for Every Child Project--wander around the internet for stuff to read in class.

The department at the French Ministry of Education that is handling purchasing of software and software licenses is increasing its Open Source offerings to some 1.5 million teachers and education workers in 250 institutes France

The Bulgarian government will turn more and more to Open Source software, predicts Krasimir Panayotov, coordinator of the GNU/Linux User Group in the city of Rousse, the country's fifth-largest city.

As a result of the training for OpenOffice.org conducted by Metamorphosis Foundation and USAID’s MDW project for employees of the Macedonia’s local self-government units, municipality of Makedonska Kamenica started to actively use OpenOffice.org on all computers in the municipality.

74 employees from 22 municipalities were trained to use OpenOffice.org within the training prepared by Metamorphosis Foundation and USAID’s Make Decentralization Work Project. The training was held in Ohrid, from 15 to 20 January, 2007. Mutual characteristic of the participants was the fact that they were from small municipalities without employed IT expert (system administrator). The trainings were held in Macedonian and Albanian language.

Metamorphosis Foundation organized OpenOffice.org training for representatives of local self-government units in Republic of Macedonia in Ohrid, from 15 to 20 January, 2007. About 100 employees from 25 Macedonian municipalities were trained during the six day training.