Newsletter #5
We promise to keep the BlueHats newsletters short and focused on the most important news about FLOSS in the public sector.
- UN Open Source Week 2026 (English, United Nations)
- The EU OSPO Network has its own page (English, Interoperable Europe)
- Open Source First for Europe's Digital Sovereignty (English, LinkedIn)
- International Comparative Study Report on Open Source Software Publication Activities by Governments (English, IPA Japan)
- Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence (English, The Record)
- Germany has just made the Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory (English, The Document Foundation)
- Join the Sovereign Tech Standards Network (English, Sovereign Tech Agency)
- Soft launch of open-source code platform for government (English, Digital Government NL)
- Grist joins the Suite Numérique for public administration (English, Interoperable Europe / OSOR)
- Academic Open Source Program Offices in France (English, HAL / Université Grenoble Alpes)
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