EU invests in free software – Heise News Ticker

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The free software AT4AM to promote the participation of NGOs in the legislative process in the EU. In addition, the practice of the Open-Sources-use in the EU should be investigated further.

The European Union wants to invest in the next year at least one million euros in free software. This provides the //eur-lex.europa.eu/budget/data/DB2/2015/en/SEC03.pdf:EU-Budget 2015. Two major projects are planned: one published as open source Web authoring software AT4AM to work on legal texts to be expanded. The aim is to give civil society a tool to collaborate on draft legislation at hand

In the pilot project “Governance and quality of software code – Auditing of free and open-source software.” To the handling and development of open source in the EU are compared with the practice of free software projects such as the Dabian community. In addition, an inventory of that in the EU free software and open standards should be created and an example of a code review of open source software are carried out, which is used in the EU. (odi)

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