Name: Czech OSS Alliance
Email: filip.molcan@oss.cz
Web: http://www.oss.cz/
Description: With the official patronage of the Ministry of Informatics of the Czech Republic, OSS Alliance is a non-profit association of professionals from the academic sphere, representatives of public administration, members of Open Source projects and other experts supporting research and the use of Open Source solutions, especially in public administration and education. The aim of the cooperation with the Ministry of Informatics is that OSS Alliance should act as an OSS competence centre for the Czech public administration authorities. The objective of the OSS Alliance is support and research in the sphere of the use of Open Source solutions, especially in public administration and education, support of the Open Source projects themselves and cooperation with similar projects and organisations both in the Czech Republic and within the framework of the EU.
Denmark
Name: DKUUG
Web: http://www.dkuug.dk/
Email: info@dkuug.dk
Name: Joint Board of the E-Government Project
Web: http://www.e.gov.dk/
Description: The central decision-making body for Project E-government is the joint board. The Digital Task Force and the IT-Technical Centre in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation serve the board. The Digital Task Force functions as the secretariat of the board.
Name: Danish Unix-systems User Group
Email: sek@dkuug.dk
Web: http://www.dkuug.dk/
Estonia
Name: Estonian Informatics Center
Web: http://www.ria.ee/
Description: The Estonian Informatics Centre (EIC) was established by the Estonian government to solve the main IT problems common for several state organisations and to arrange the work of the state's information systems. EIC is an implementing body in general coordination of state information policy and public sector IT development.
Name: Linux Estonia
Web: http://linux.ee/
Finland
Name: Finnish UNIX Users Group (FUUG)
Email: fuug@fuug.fi
Web: http://www.fuug.fi/
Date of Establishment: 1982
Name: Finnish Linux User Group - FLUG
Web: http://www.flug.fi/
Description: The purpose of FLUG is to further the interests of the Finnish Linux community and support Finnish Linux users and people interested in Linux.
FLUG holds meetings for the members and strives toward creating supplementary services and benefits for the members and partners.
Name: Linux-Aktivaattori
Email: info@linux-aktivaattori.org
Web: http://www.linux-aktivaattori.org/
Description: Linux-Aktivaattori promotes the use of Linux by organizing various linux-related activities for private and or corporate users.
Name: Electronic Frontier Finland - EFFI
Email: effi@effi.org
Web: http://www.effi.org/
Description: EFFI was founded in 2001 to defend active users and citizens of the Finnish society in the electronic frontier. EFFI influences legislative proposals concerning e.g. personal privacy, freedom of speech and user rights in copyright law. We make statements, press releases and participate actively in actual public policy and legal discussion. EFFI also works in close cooperation with organizations sharing same goals and values in the Europe, United States and elsewhere. EFFI is a founding member of the European Digital Rights (EDRi) and a member of Global Internet Liberty Campaign.
Date of Establishment: 2001
Name: Centre for Open Source Software (COSS) Finland
Email: info@coss.fi
Web: http://www.coss.fi/
Description: The initiative for the Finnish Centre for Open Source Software (COSS) was launched in the beginning of 2004. COSS is the gateway to open source in Finland. It brings you into contact with key players in the Finnish Open Source Ecosystem in business, research and education.
COSS aims at:
- Creating co-operation and networking between global corporations, local SMEs, developers and end-users;
- Recognizing the versatile ways of utilizing Open Source in different business sectors and making Open Source familiar in different industries and user groups;
- Implementing development projects together with corporate partners in order to improve the availability and usability of Open Source solutions;
- Linking the Finnish Open Source business ecosystem with international networks and partnerships.
The COSS network is open for companies, communities and public organisations. COSS partners include key corporations (such as Nokia, Novell and MySQL), intermediary organisations (such as Tekes) and reseach insitutions (such as HIIT, TUT, UTA and University of Helsinki). COSS recieves financial support from the Centre of Expertise Program of the Finnish Government and the Tampere Region.
Name: PLUG, Porvoo GNU/Linux User Group
Email: tjk@tksoft.com
Web: http://www.plug.fi/
Description: The Porvoo GNU/Linux User Group (PLUG) was established in March 2000. They have weekly meetings with members from all over Finland. They speak 4 languages (Finnish, English, Swedish and Japanese).
France
Name: Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Linux et des Logiciels Libres (AFUL)
Email: secretaire@aful.org
Web: http://www.aful.org/index.html
Description: AFUL is an association of open source users and professionals. It comprises members - individuals, commercial companies, other associations -coming from about ten French-speaking countries and regions (France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Québec, French-speaking African countries etc.). AFUL principal objective is to promote, directly or indirectly, software free and in particular operating systems free, mainly those based on the standards POSIX or derived, of which most known is the Linux system provided with environment GNU (article 2 of the status).
Name: APRIL (Association pour la Promotion et la Recherche en Informatique Libre)
Email: contact@april.org
Web: http://www.april.org/
Description: The Association Pour la Promotion et la Recherche en Informatique Libre (which can be translated to english as Association for Promotion and Research in Libre Computing) has as its goal to undertake any appropriate action in french-speaking areas in order to facilitate promotion, development, research and democratisation of libre computing.
Date of Establishment: 1996
Legal Status: Non-profit (French "association loi 1901")
Name: Agence pour le Développement de l'Administration Electronique (ADAE)
Web: http://www.adae.pm.gouv.fr/
Email: adae@adae.pm.gouv.fr
Description: The Agency for Information and Communication Technologies in the Administration (known by its French initials ATICA) has taken on the task of ensuring that government projects use open standards to reduce costs and redundancy, and to improve interoperability in government projects.
Name: FSF France
Contact: Frédéric Couchet
Email: france@fsfeurope.org
Web: http://fsffrance.org/
Name: Association des Développeurs et Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres pour l'Administration et les Collectivités Territoriales
Email: contact@adullact.org
Web: http://www.adullact.org/
Description: ADULLACT aims at coordinating the development and the use of Open Source Software in the public adminuistration and particularly in the local authorities.
Target Users: Municipalities, Local and Regional authorities
Name: ObjectWeb Consortium
Email: contact@objectweb.org
Web: http://www.objectweb.org/
Description: ObjectWeb is an international consortium hosted by INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control. The consortium is an independent non-profit organization open to companies, institutions and individuals. Its goal is the development of open-source distributed middleware, in the form of flexible and adaptable components. These components range from specific software frameworks and protocols to integrated platforms. ObjectWeb developments follow a systematic component-based approach.
Germany
Name: Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
Web: http://ffii.org/index.en.html
Description: The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is a non-profit association registered in Munich, which is dedicated to the spread of data processing literacy. FFII supports the development of public information goods based on copyright, free competition, open standards. More than 250 members, 300 companies and 15,000 supporters have entrusted the FFII to act as their voice in public policy questions in the area of exclusivity rights (intellectual property) in the field of software.
Name: Free Software Foundation Europe
Contact: Werner Koch
Email: office@fsfeurope.org
Web: http://www.fsfeurope.org/index.fr.html
Date of Establishment: The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) was founded in 2001 as the sister organization of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in the USA to take care of all aspects of Free Software in Europe.
Name: The German Unix User Group
Email: info@guug.de
Web: http://www.guug.de/
Description: The German Unix User Group is a non-profit organization for professional computer users using any kind of Unix system.
Name: Linux-Verband
Web: http://www.linux-verband.de/
Email: info@linux-verband.de
Name: Institut für Rechtsfragen der Freien und Open Source Software (ifrOSS)
Web: http://www.ifross.de/
Name: German Federal Ministry of the Interior
Web: http://www.bmi.bund.de/
Description: The German Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin announced a government deal with IBM Corp. to purchase hardware and software products that support Linux.
Name: Koordinierungs und Beratungsstelle KBSt
Web: http://www.kbst.bund.de/
Description: Published study recommending the use of OSS for public administrations.
Name: FSF Germany
Contact: Werner Koch
Email: germany@fsfeurope.org
Greece
Name: General Secretariat for Public Administration of the Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralisation
Web: http://www.gspa.gr/
Email: ypesdda@gspa.gr
Description: More particularly in charge of e-government issues.
Name: Hellenic Linux Users Group (Hellug)
Web: http://www.linux.gr/?changelang=english
Name: Greek Open Source Software Community
Web: http://www.ellak.gr/
Name: Free & Open Source Software @ Greece
Web: http://www.open-source.gr/
Hungary
Name: Linux Hungary
Web: http://www.linux.hu/
Italy
Name: Italian Linux Society
Contact: Carlo Strozzi
Email: CarloStrozzi@linux.it
Web: http://www.linux.it/
Name: Associazione Software Libero
Contact: Francesco Potortì
Email: info@softwarelibero.it
Web: http://www.softwarelibero.it/
Name: MC Link
Email: greco@mclink.it
Web: http://www.mclink.it/
Name: Ministerial Committee for the Information Society
Web: http://www.mininnovazione.it/
Description: To devise and/or endorse the strategic action lines, involving several senior ministers and chaired by the Minister for Innovation and Technologies.
Name: FSF Italy
Contact: Stefano Maffulli
Email: italy@fsfeurope.org
Web: http://fsffrance.org/
Ireland
Name: Linux Ireland
Web: http://www.linux.ie/
Name: Information Society Commission
Web: http://www.isc.ie/
Description: The Information Society Commission (ISC) is an independent advisory body to Government, reporting directly to the Taoiseach. It draws on high-level representation from the business community, the social partners, and government itself.
Latvia
Name: Latvian Linux Users Group
Email: sysman@pd.gov.lv
Web: http://linux.parks.lv/
Lithuania
Name: Lithuania Linux User Group
Email: Gytis@crazy.lt
Luxembourg
Name: Luxembourg Linux User Group
Contact: Thierry Coutelier
Email: Thierry.Coutelier@linux.lu
Web: http://www.linux.lu/
Name: Libre.lu
Web: http://www.libre.lu/index.php
Malta
Name: Central Information Management Unit (CIMU)
Web: http://www.cimu.gov.mt/htdocs/content.asp?c=5
Name: Malta Linux User Group
Web: http://linux.org.mt/index.jsp
The Netherlands
Name: ICT Unit (ICTU) of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Email: info@ictu.nl
Web: http://www.ictu.nl/profile.html
Description: ICTU is the Dutch organisation for information and communication technology in the public sector. ICTU's goal is to contribute to the structural development of e-government. ICTU presented the latest developments of its programme for Open Standards and Open Source Software in Government (OSOSS).
Name: Programme for Open Standards and Open Source Software in government
Web: http://www.ososs.nl/index.jsp
Description: The Programme OSOSS is being started to encourage the use of open standards and to inform about open source software. The programme is to be assigned to the ICTU, the Dutch organisation for ICT and government.
Name: Vereniging Open Source Nederland
Web: http://www.vosn.nl/
Name: The Dutch UNIX Users' Society (NLUUG)
Email: info@nluug.nl
Web: http://www.nluug.nl/
Description: The NLUUG is the association of professional UNIX users in the Netherlands. Since the late seventies, the NLUUG has brought together the community of UNIX systems administrators, programmers, researchers and IP network professionals. The primary goal of the NLUUG is to extend the application of, and knowledge about, UNIX and related open systems.
Scope: The NLUUG's activities are directed towards the exchange of information, the promotion of its members' interests, and the support of open systems, networks and user interfaces. Twice a year the NLUUG organizes a national conference. Besides tutorials, technical and product-oriented talks and presentations, these conferences offer an excellent opportunity to meet other Unix users, suppliers and researchers.
Nordic Countries
Name: Nordic Open Source website
Web: http://www.nordicos.org/
Description: Nordicos.org is an initiative of the Nordic Council of Ministers. The Nordic countries consist of Denmark (including the Faroe Islands and Greenland), Finland (including Åland), Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The Nordicos site addresses the need for a comprehensive overview of open source software available for consumers and provides information to the consumer to aid in understanding, finding and using Open Source products. It is a multilingual site dedicated to the needs of the Nordic countries as well as those of the "adjacent areas" i.e. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Northwest Russia and the Arctic.
Norway
Name: Skolelinux
Web: http://www.skolelinux.no/index.php.en
Description: Skolelinux is an organization in Norway which develops a Linux distribution for schools. Skolelinux is also used in other countries, such as Germany and Spain.
Name: Norwegian Unix Users Group - NUUG
Web: http://www.nuug.no/
Poland
Name: Linux Forum Szczecin
Email: dzemik@shadow.eu.org
Web: http://www.shadow.eu.org/
Name: Poland Linux Users Group (PLUG)
Email: plug@linux.org.pl
Web: http://www.linux.org.pl/
Name: Silesian Linux Users Group
Email: mumin@silesia.linux.org.pl
Web: http://www.silesia.linux.org.pl/
Portugal
Name: Mission Unit for Innovation and Knowledge (UMIC)
Web: http://www.umic.pcm.gov.pt/UMIC/
Description: Forms part of the Prime Minister's Office and is in charge of driving the Information Society and e-government policies.
Name: Intersectoral Commission for IT in Public Administration (CITIAP)
Web: http://www.citiap.gov.pt/
Description: Commission responsible for the coordination of IT developments in central Government.
Name: Associação Nacional para o Software Livre
Email: contacto@ansol.org
Web: http://www.ansol.org/ansol.en.html
Description: It is a Portuguese non-profit association dedicated to the promotion, development, research and study of Computing Freedom and its social, political philosophical, cultural, technical and scientific implications.
Slovakia
Name: The Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications (MTPT SR)
Web: http://www.telecom.gov.sk/
Slovenia
Name: Center znanja o odprtih standardih, sistemih in rešitvah za javno upravo (Competence centre on open standards, systems and solutions for public administration)
Description: Competence centre on open standards, systems and solutions for public administration (CC OSSS) is dedicated to Open Source Software and is intended to encourage the use of open standards, systems and solutions in Slovenian public administration. We introduce institutions of public administration to the concept of Open Source and deliver information and support to those who are deciding for or migrating to Open Source.
Email: ossr@gov.si
Web: http://ossr.cvi.gov.si
Name: Linux User Group Of Slovenia (LUGOS)
Email: lugos@lugos.si
Web: http://www.lugos.si/
Spain
Name: Fundacion CENATIC
Email: imelda.rodriguez@cenatic.es
Web: http://www.cenatic.es
Name: ProInnova
Web: http://proinnova.hispalinux.es/
Name: Council for Informatics and for the Impulsion of Electronic Administration - CIAE
Web: http://www.csi.map.es/
Description: An inter-ministerial structured created in June 2003 to assume the leadership for the co-ordination and the implementation of e-government in Spain.
Name: Asociación de Usuarios Españoles de GNU/LiNUX- Hispalinux
Email: secretario@hispalinux.es
Web: http://www.hispalinux.es/
Description: Con el fin de divulgar y facilitar el acceso al sistema Linux a los usuarios; y de coordinar, apoyar y dar organización a los distintos grupos no organizados que ya existen en España, surge la iniciativa de crear una Asociación, sin ánimo de lucro y de ámbito nacional, al amparo de las disposiciones legales vigentes.
Sweden
Name: The Swedish Agency for Public Management
Web: http://www.statskontoret.se/english/
Description: Our task is to conduct studies and evaluations at the request of the government and also to modernize public administration with the use of IT. Recently published a feasibility study: Free and Open Source Software
Name: Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group
Email: bestyrelsen@sslug.dk
Web: http://en.sslug.dk/forening/
Description: Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group is a Linux User Group in Southeastern region of Scandinavia - We cover the isle of Sjælland (Eastern part of Denmark) and Skåne (Southern part of Sweden).
Name: Europen.SE - Svenska Unix-användares förening
Web: http://www.europen.se/
Description: EurOpen.se is the Swedish Unix users organisation and part of USENIX, an International organisation for professional system-adminitrators. EurOpen.se is an organistion for all people working with Unix, Linux and *BSD-related system. We arrange the annual technical conference.
Name: Swedish Linux User Society
Web: http://se.linux.org/
Turkey
Name: Turkish Linux Users Association`(LKD)
Email: info@lkd.org.tr
Web: http://lkd.org.tr
Description: Turkish Linux Users Association aims to be focal point for all Free Software Related Activities; a platform involving all related parties, and a promoter, organizer of Linux and Open Source activities within the country. Linux Users Association (LKD) will run webs, mailing lists, ftps; conduct seminers, courses, festivals, all kinds of meetings; promote successful case studies, organize roadshows; to promote Linux and Open Software Community, bring together, academic, commercial, govermental and non-govermental organizations.
Name: Uludag: National Linux Distribution Project
Email: bilgi@uludag.org.tr
Web: http://www.uludag.org.tr/eng/
Description: The National Distribution Project, Uludag's aim is to build a Linux-based operating system composed of Free/Open Source Software achieving the following goals:
* Ensure that it is an operating system which can be installed and used more easily than the existing Linux distributions and other competitive operating systems.
* Design and implement a system achitecture, to achieve the required flexibility and high performance with a task-based and human-focused approach rather than a tool-based and technology-based one.
* Provide full Turkish support by making the character structure compatible to Turkish (UTF-8 compatibility) and by making all the messages and documents visible to users into Turkish.
United Kingdom
Name: Office of e-Envoy, Cabinet Office
Web: http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk/
Name: Association For Free Software
Email: frontdesk@affs.org.uk
Web: http://www.affs.org.uk/
Description: The Association for Free Software (AFFS) is a membership organization which promotes and defends Free Software in the UK. Membership is open to everyone who supports the goals of promoting free software. The annual membership fee is 10 pounds.
Scope: Education, government, opposition to software patents.
Date of Establishment: February 2002
Type of support provided: Attendance to conferences/seminars, dissemination of information promoting the use of Free Software. Run campaigns to promote the use of free software in education and government.
Name: Open Forum Europe
Email: info@openforumeurope.org
Web: http://www.openforumeurope.org/
Description: OpenForum Europe is a new initiative, whose objective is to accelerate and broaden the market take up of Open Source Software (OSS) including Linux. Major vendors and distributors, software houses, services and integration companies, as well as major users are all supporting the project. OpenForum Europe aims to strengthen the perception and credibility of the Open Source offer, particularly within Government and commercial organisations.
Name: UK UNIX User Group
Web: http://www.ukuug.org/
Description: The UKUUG was formed to represent users of UNIX and Open Systems in the United Kingdom. It uniquely caters for the needs of people in this area and, being totally funded by membership subscriptions, is completely independent of specific hardware and software vendors. UKUUG holds regular events for its members, and occassional events for the general public. We have two main conferences a year; the Winter Conference in or around February, and the UK's main Linux Conference in the summer.
Name: OpenAdvantage
Email: info@openadvantage.org
Web: http://www.openadvantage.org/
Description: OpenAdvantage is a partnership between the University of Central England, The National Business to Business Centre (Warwick University) and the National Computing Centre, funded by Advantage West Midlands - the regional economic development agency for the West Midlands of England. As the first independently funded vendor neutral Open Source centre in the UK, the project aims to become a regional and national focal point for Open Source developers and users, promote and encourage the take up of Open Source software within the West Midlands region and showcase solutions providing tangible economic and business benefits for organisations across all sectors.
Europe and world-wide
Name: KDE
Web: http://www.kde.org/
Description: KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system
Name: GNOME
Web : http://www.gnome.org/
Description: The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment for users, and a powerful application development framework for software developers.
Name: Debian
Web: http://www.debian.org/
Description: The Debian Project is an organization of free software developers who volunteer their time and effort in order to produce a completely free operating systems known as Debian GNU/Linux.
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