Newsletter #3
We promise to keep the BlueHats newsletters short and focused on the most important news about FLOSS in the public sector.
- Schleswig-Holstein (GER), Aarhus and Copenhagen (DK), Lyon (FR) move to Free Software.
- Barcelona is the first city in the world to endorse the UN Open Source Principles, October 2025
- The EU Commission published a webpage on Cyber Resilience Act - Open source, December 2025
- European Member States signed the Declaration for European Digital Sovereignty, November 2025.
- The OSPO Alliance launched FLOSS PSO, a network of public sector OSPOs, November 2025
- The EU Commission relaunches its open source bug bounties programme, July 2025
- developer.overheid.nl published recommendations for the government's Git forge, November 2025
- APELL and 100+ partners declare: digital sovereignty is possible with Open Source, November 2025
- You may be interested in FOSDEM 2026 Building Europe’s Public Digital Infrastructure and EU-Policy devrooms.
- Did you know that the Venezuelan government has its own GNU/Linux distribution?
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