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Ubiquitous Open Source in Spain: How government, business and
community work together
Free Software in Andalusia
Guadalinex and Guadalinfo project
Government, business and community
Guadalinex example Guadalinfo accesible example
About Andalusia
Southernmost region of continental Spain
Sun, beaches, wines&foods … Free software!
Junta de Andalucia is the Regional Government
About 250.000
public employees
Free Software in Andalusia
Prehistory
Known to IT people since early 90's
Mostly used on the server side
Self training
Transparent to the end user
Free Software in Andalusia
Legal regulations (I)
2003 Decree for the impulse of Information Society:
Free software will be used in Public Schools Free software will be used in Public Internet Access
Centers Use of free software by the citizens will be promoted
and supported
Free Software in Andalusia
Legal regulations (II)
2005 Order for the public availability of software owned by Junta de Andalucia
All custom made applications owned by Junta de Andalucia, present and future, will be free software.
Open Source World Conference
2004 Málaga
2005 Mérida
2006 Málaga
2007 Badajoz
2008 Málaga
2009 Cáceres
2010 Málaga, 27-28 October
Free Software in Andalusia
Guadalinex Is the GNU/Linux distribution of Junta de Andalucia
Based on Ubuntu (formerly based on Debian)
Gnome as desktop, because:
Simplicity, compared to other desktops Previous experience in Extremadura (GNU/LinEx) Accesibility
Agreement with ONCE (Spanish National Organization for the Blind)
Base software to implement other projects
A nice penguin, Andatuz!
>300.000 desktops >2.000 public schools >180.000 laptops for
students and teachers 100.000 more to be
delivered in course 2010/2011
Goal : >1.400.000 students in >4.000 schools
764 in small towns and districts of bigger cities: Guadalinfo
635 public libraries 200 centers for elderly
people
Guadalinex: by numbers
Schools Internet centres
Guadalinex: new plans
Analisys of requirements for an Administration Edition of Guadalinex (GEA), about to finish
Small scale migrations to free software Phase 1: On the same operating system Phase 2: Deployment of GEA
Guadalinfo 2003-2008
Goals: Bring Internet on < 10.000 people towns Computer literacy Digital training
Results: 634 Guadalinfo centers 400.000 total registered users About 40.000 distinct users every month
Guadalinfo 2003-2008
Guadalinfo 2009-2012 Goals:
Get andalusian population into the modern knowledge society
Remove the digital divide for the disabled or socially marginated people
Results (by now): 764 centers in < 20.000 towns and cities district with
risk of social margination. 550.000 registered people 110.000 activities
Guadalinfo 2009-2012
Guadalinfo: Accessibility 2009-2012 objective In agreement with ONCE Guadalinfo as a accessibility lab:
Accessibility
device kit Intelligent a11y
adaptation system
Contributions to Community projects: Improvement of ORCA Enhancement of OCRFeeder and Evince On screen keyboard Caribou and predictive
text system Presage And more to come ...
Guadalinfo: Accessibility
Community way Open devel. Model
Meritocracy matters
Quality terms:
Functionality of interest Needs of project Hacking habilities
Government, business and Community
Government way Only final product available
Financial and workforce capacity matters
Closed terms:
Budget Roadmap Requirements Penalties
Government, business and Community
Community matters: Third party improvements
Ease maintenance
Achieve amount of users
Solve local problems, share solutions globally
Needed Companies that: Understand opensource way
Relates with community
Can fulfil government terms of contract
Willing to put the right hacker to do the job
Willing to try getting work into upstream
Guadalinex example
Tech Objectives: Care of spanish citizens needs Improvements over Ubuntu Release at Ubuntu +45d
Target community Local citizenship Ubuntu approach for upstreaming
Consider: Listen your local users Work at upstream community forges Sync community roadmap with yours
Benefits: Local citizenship will reveal what OSS lacks Community will show what local work matters globally
Guadalinex example
Guadalinex example
Guadalinfo accesible example
Tech Objectives: Bug fix/Enhancements/Doc on Orca & OCRFeeder Requests designed with ONCE Upstream required to assure maintenance
About the target community: Gnome focused Bugzilla and mailing list to collaborate Manages their own roadmap
Guadalinfo accesible example
Consider: Gain credit first in order to be listened Sync community roadmap with yours Involve with community beyond your scope
Benefits: Community helps on design, coding and peer review If useful, your work will be maintained by community
Conclusion
Community means opportunity Private companies could ride with it A sustainable FLOSS industry appear Society breaks with private soft. habit
Will this new culture drive the change?