Everyone knows that government is dull - dull, but very, very important. So a couple of recent moves in this dull but important world seem pretty significant to me.
First, there’s :
The French-speaking Brussels Parliament (PFB) is considering to increase its use of Open Source, said Joël Tournemenne, director of the parliament’s IT department, without giving more details.
Tournemenne visited the Solutions Linux conference in Paris at the end of January, where he spoke with the developers of Tabellio, an Open Source projects funded by the PFB.
Tabellio should result in an Open Source suite of applications for drafting, managing and publishing legislative documents and is meant for parliaments and assemblies. The project is a joined effort of two Belgian regional parliaments: the PFB and the Parliament of the French Community in Belgium.
What interests me here is not so much the details, but the fact that something like the open source Tabellio even exists: free software for “drafting, managing and publishing legislative documents” that “is meant for parliaments and assemblies”? You can hardly get closer to the heart of government - and hence power - than that.
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