OSS in Europe Implementation and politics

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1 OSS in Europe Implementation and politics Markus Feilner Team Lead Documentation, former deputy editor-in-chief, Linux-Magazin Germany Content by Gijs Hillenius (OSOR)

2 Why I am Markus Feilner Team Lead Documentation Team at SUSE Lives in Regensburg, Germany 2

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7 Facts about this talk

8 Why administrations do Open Source? 8 Innovation Modernization Share Pay it forward After all, it's public administration

9 Innovate and modernize In a nutshell: 9 To deliver innovative government solutions, Europe's public administrations turn to free and open source software. Innovation is the main motive, costs saving comes next. The OSOR news items show that the freedom, flexibility and scalability enabled by open source software make it an obvious choice for public ventures.

10 Share 10 It makes business sense to use open source software. All the big IT companies are doing it, like Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, everybody. But public administrations especially ought to share their software. Public administrations that invest in open source create future benefits and generate a virtuous loop between the public and private sector.

11 Pay it forward 11 Public administration software is financed by taxpayers, and making it public is the best way to share the solutions with citizens and companies. Share their code and their improvements to existing code publicly, is a way to make their IT investments pay forward, and technological self-reliance into the bargain. Swiss, German, and French public administrations have pooled budgets to make new software solutions possible and publicly available.

12 It's public administration I think: Source code is information. And just like other public administrative documents, it should be publicly accessible. Do you agree? Many citizens and administrations agree. (Example: French tax authority, court rule on publishing all the software that is being used in the tax process, France building a new law for making governments digital) 12

13 About this talk 13 big trends four problems cool policies top three most visible implementations some less visible examples to open source in five steps but first: about OSOR.

14 OSOR 14 The European Commission's Open Source Radar OSOR lets you share your own solutions. This is the place to learn from best practices in Europe and around the world. ~ 4000 solutions shared publicly, 1200 solutions from public administrations shared for public administrations, federatedly linked from/within the administrations > 1600 news items, more than 100 case studies (some of which written by yours truly)

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16 Trends and the Motives

17 Breaking News! [October 23, 2015] 17 Public administrations increasingly use open source Gendarmerie Française says open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%: Using an open source desktop lowers the total cost of ownership by 40%, in savings on proprietary software licences and by reducing costs on it management.

18 EP proposal for IT independence 43. Welcomes the steps taken so far to strengthen Parliament s IT security, as outlined in the action plan on EP ICT Security prepared by DG ITEC; asks for these efforts to be continued and the recommendations made in the resolution fully and swiftly carried out; calls for fresh thinking and, if necessary, legislative change in the field of procurement to enhance the IT security of the EU institutions; calls for the systematic replacement of proprietary software by auditable and verifiable open-source software in all the EU institutions, for the introduction of a mandatory open-source selection criterion in all future ICT procurement procedures, and for efficient availability of encryption tools; 18

19 An European Strategy? They are not alone! 19

20 The big trends: France and TCO 20 Public administrations increasingly use open source Gendarmerie Française says open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%: Using an open source desktop lowers the total cost of ownership by 40%, in savings on proprietary software licences and by reducing costs on it management.

21 The big trends: Politics The number of politicians that appreciate open source is rising. New MEPs urge building links to open source communities: Julia Reda and Max Andersson, newly elected members of the European Parliament, want to build links with well-known free software communities. 21

22 Public administrations use OSS For everything and everywhere: content management document management database applications e-government services citizen participation geo-information systems open data software development and across all sectors 22

23 It's everywhere

24 OSS is everywhere in the EU In the EU's institutions: 24 European Commission to update its open source policy EU: ,00 for security audit of open source EC recommends supporting open document format European Parliament releases its amendment software as open source Two hundred ways to switch an ec directorate to open source (European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO)) Open source software assists European citizens to petition the EU

25 OSS is everywhere Ministries 25 Linux clusters in German finance ministry data centre French interior ministry: open source 5 to 10 times cheaper Finland's ministry of justice migrates to openoffice Polish economy ministry makes consultation site open source Spain's finance ministry offers open source cloud service Norway: Local government ministry uses open source version control system Estonian ministry saves millions by using open source

26 OSS is everywhere Cities In capitals, big cities, towns and tiny villages 26 Spanish cities Zaragoza, Madrid, Bilbao and Badajoz Portugal's Vieira do Minho Denmark's second-largest city Århus Dutch city of Ede Towns of Grygov and Jihlava in Czech Republic Villages of Toulouse, Arles, Voreppe and many others in france Poland's Poznan Italy's Bologna, Genoa, Udine and towns in the Umbria region

27 OSS is everywhere Healthcare Across all sectors, including Healthcare 27 More and more Linux in Riga children hospital Hospitals eyeing open source patient record system Hospital in Porto to switch 3000 PCs to open source office suite Danish hospital: "hassle free use of ODF across competing office suites" Rotterdam hospital selects open source for internal ordering system

28 OSS is everywhere Education Across all sectors, including education 28 Such as a Epoptes a PC lab management tool - in over 500 greek schools Or schools in Austria and Switzerland And the Westcliff high school for girls academy, UK WHSG school's network manager, Malcolm Moore: This school specializes in science and engineering and if our students are to go on to do great things like start the next Google or collapse the universe at CERN... they will certainly need to know Linux.

29 OSS is everywhere Defence Across all sectors, including Defence 29 Open source advancing at Dutch defence ministry Polish defence ministry moving to open source and groupware NATO makes ODF one of its mandatory standards Ministry of defense to switch to Pardus GNU/Linux Russian government to invest in open source desktop

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31 Public Adminstrations use SUSE 31 German Interior Ministry seeks SUSE Linux Enterprise expertise SUSE workstations at Hungary's government services department of the Office of the Prime Minister SUSE server sparked Linux use by Riga children hospital Czech government says SUSE-based document systems are easy to operate Gummersbach uses SUSE Linux Enterprise for its switch to open source Baden-Württemberg pension fund relies on SUSE

32 Public Adminstrations use SUSE 32 SUSE Linux Enterprise clusters in German finance ministry data centre Zaragoza city begins SUSE-based desktop PC pilot Spain's Tax Administration Agency uses SUSE for its anti fraud information analysis system Austria's elearning competence center pilots SUSE UK tax authority uses SUSE Nivelles uses many SUSE servers

33 Adoption problems

34 First Problem: Appreciation Too few politicians appreciate the values of open source Politicians should recognize the value of open source in terms of responsible government, sustainability, openness and independence from it vendors. they should recognize that governments using open source create future benefits. 34

35 First Problem: Appreciation Serafín Olcoz Yanguas, the former chief information officer of Basque country: [free and open source software] creates a virtuous loop between the public and private sector, with a recurring public contribution. Research done on municipal governments in the Netherlands shows: Political support and pioneers ar pivotal for open source. 35

36 Second Problem: The Desktop 36 Even the EC admits it is locked-in. Not really a role model, though: Do as i say, not as i do.

37 Third Problem: Procurement Open ICT standards are fundamental for small ICT firms MEP Andersdotter: EC procurement practice blocks European firms. EC calls for use of ICT standards to battle IT vendor lock-in. EC is considering hotline for procurement errors. 37

38 Fourth Problem: Unaccustomed Shy and unsure Public administrations are shy when releasing their code as open source, and seem unsure about contributing to well-known open source projects. Even though this was extensively researched at the ec, and there are no objections. Public administrations, as system owner of a software asset, have every right to 'give away' an asset via the appropriate licensing scheme though many get it: 38

39 Policies on Sharing and Re-Use ISA Report on Policies and Initiatives on Sharing and Re-use shows: All EU member states address sharing and re-use About half of them have legislation by listing standards or with a policy on sharing and re-use of software 39

40 Top Performers

41 Top 3 visible OSS implementations Rank 3: The city administration of Munich, Germany 14,800 Ubuntu Linux and Libre Office desktops Limux - the IT evolution Christian Ude (mayor of Munich, Germany) meets Bill Gates. Gates: Mr. Ude, why are you doing this?. Ude: To gain freedom. Gates: Freedom from what? Ude: Freedom from you, Mr. Gates. 41

42 Top 3 visible OSS implementations Ranked 2: The government of Spain's Exremadura autonomous region 42,000 Ubuntu Linux desktops (target) Manuel Velardo (Cenatic, Spain): "young cios are more used to open source than older ones." 10,000 PCs in healthcare organizations use Lingobex Salud 22,000 PCs in government offices will use Lingobex 93,000 school pcs and laptops run Linex A ,00 procurement request for proprietary brands is under fire 42

43 Top 3 visible OSS implementations And the winner is the French Gendarmerie 72,000 Ubuntu Linux & Libre Office desktops Major Stéphane Dumond (Gendarmerie, France): The direct benefits of saving on licenses are the tip of the iceberg. An industrialized open source desktop is a powerful lever for it governance. "Open Source Desktop lowers TCO by 40%" 43

44 Open Desktop implementations Winner #1: France ODF is France's government standard for editable documents. Many ministries use ODF in combination with open source office suites. Total: some 500,000 workstations daily creating, editing or handling ODF documents. The biggest is the Interior Ministry with some 240,000 PCs. Other ministries using ODF in this way include the Tax Agency, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture. France has a inter-ministerial working group (Mimo) for an interoperable office suite. 44

45 Open Desktop implementations Winner #2: Italy Italy has many regions, provinces and city administrations in Italy that use ODF and have implemented alternative office suites, such as LibreOffice. Some examples (thanks to Libre Office's Italo Vignoli): The province of Bolzano with LibreOffice and ODF on 6,000 PCs. The Province of Trento: 4,000 PCs, Perugia: 1,200 PCs, Cremona: 500 PCs and the Province of Macerata: 500 PCs. 45

46 Open Desktop implementations The Emilia Romagna region with some 3,500 PCs, The city of Bologna with 3,000 PCs. The city of Piacenza with 600 PCs, the city of Reggio Emilia with 500 PC. The Galliera Hospital in Genoa has 2,500 PCs and is now at their 10th anniversary of the migration. Most recent: Italian military to switch to LibreOffice and ODF The Italian military is transitioning to LibreOffice and the Open 46

47 Five role model examples Sweden procurement Norway cloud services Belgium municipalities developing software together France - an open source culture United Kingdom - open document format 47

48 Step by step Five Examples: UK 48 Make the use of open standards mandatory (ODF); Be serious about creating a level playing field for open source software; Make this one a task for the nation's CIO

49 Canary Islands 49 Provide political support for the CIO; Allow him to keep in his budget the savings realised by switching to open source;

50 Basque Country and Munich 50 Make all part of the IT infrastructure open source; Promote diversification, create chances for local industry; Pay it forward, instead of sunk costs

51 French Gendarmerie 51 Open source provides leverage (when / to) suppliers; It improves IT management (reducing license costs is the tip of the iceberg);

52 City of Ede (Netherlands) 52 only 56 euros per full-time equivalent employee (FTE) instead of 731 euros. That's a very impressive 92 percent less than average. Such a large reduction was achieved by moving from proprietary to open source software. the Dutch city of Ede spends 92 percent less on software licenses than similar municipalities, resulting in a 24 percent over-all spend reduction this slashing of license costs was realised by moving from proprietary to open source software Make Firefox the mandatory standard browser

53 Credits 53 All work done by my friend Gijs Hillenius This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Adapted for the big screen by Markus Feilner, SUSE.

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