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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 90
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| Ubuntu Finland receives award from Finland's Minister of Communications
|
| Ubuntu Finland[1] was awarded Finnish Linux User Group's 2008 award at the HP
| Linux Forum[2], in Helsinki, on 8th of May. The award was received by the
| team contact of Ubuntu Finland, Timo Jyrinki, and was given by the Finland's
| Minister of Communications, Suvi Lindén[3]. The award also included 2000€ in
| cash for Ubuntu Finland's usage.
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue90
As usual, it's in Finnish, so it needs a translation. All the good Linux news
is reported in languages that are not English (English-speaking countries are
slowest at Linux adoption).
Recent:
Linux: A Search Engine’s View
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| It is always interesting where Linux is gaining public interest, which
| countries are falling behind. (Source: Google Trends)
|
| * Russia claimed the top spot
| * India came in second
| * Number of Asian countries in the top ten: 3
| * Number of European countries in the top ten: 7
| * Number of North American countries in the top ten: 0
| * Position of Russian among all languages: 1
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http://hehe2.net/linux-general/linux-a-search-engines-view/
Deploying KDE to 52 million young people
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| By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be
| fully deployed and in active use.
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| By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs
| serving some 52,000,000 students.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html
Related:
Finland's 'Open Source' Electric Car Plan
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| When I think of faraway Finland, I think of long, dark winters, saunas,
| reindeer and Nokia cellular telephones. I don't think of electric cars...
| until now.
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http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=1419
[Fraud watch?] Prime Minister's former aide arranged Microsoft donation to
Finnish schools
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| Mikko Alkio, the new State Secretary at the Ministry of Employment and the
| Economy, who had previously served as aide to Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen
| (Centre), was a key instigator of a donation from Microsoft of computer
| software to Finnish schools.
| Alkio was still working as manager for information society relations at
| Microsoft a couple of weeks ago when Prime Minister Vanhanen visited the
| United States.
| During his US visit, Vanhanen met with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates,
| who promised Finnish schools a free package of the Windows Live@edu
| service platform.
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http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Prime+Ministers+former+aide+arranged+Microsoft+donation+to+Finnish+schools/1135233671462
'We're Huge in Finland!' Firefox Hits New High as IE7 Lags
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| Mozilla Firefox continued its slow but steady march against the worldwide
| dominance of Microsoft Internet Explorer in 2007. Though the open-source web
| browser continues to sit firmly in second place behind IE, where it's been
| for years, usage of Firefox is still on the rise. The browser is even
| threatening to tip the scales in some European countries -- most likely
| thanks to the rapid internationalization efforts made possible by the
| open-source development model.
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http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/01/firefox-made-wo.html
A Virtual Open Source Center to Nordic Countries
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| The initiative was confirmed during the Norwegian IT-minister Heidi
| Grande Roys' visit in Finland. The leader of COSS, Petri Rasanen,
| stated that the steady operation of COSS is a good base to build
| the international collaboration on, and for example the web site
| of the new center will be based on the COSS portal.
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http://www.swbusiness.fi/portal/news/news_from_software_business_cluster/other_news/?id=18528
Linux-based wireless handheld platform debuts
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| Finland-based Navicron has introduced Linux-based hardware and software
| reference designs for smart wireless devices. Navicron's FusionSoftware stack
| and Freescale-MX31-based FusionPlatform reference hardware are said to be
| designed for smartphones, Internet tablets, automotive computers, and
| machine-to-machine (M2M) equipment.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8449304061.html
Ubuntu Finland delivered Ubuntu to Finnish parliament representatives
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| Ubuntu Finland has sent Ubuntu CDs and information about Ubuntu, Linux and
| free (as in freedom) software to each parliament representative of Finland in
| the beginning of September.
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http://wiki.ubuntu-fi.org/Wiki/Press_release-Ubuntu_CDs_for_Finnish_parliament_representatives
Ministry of Justice of Finland chooses OpenOffice
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| Ministry of Justice of Finland has made the decision to adopt the Open
| Source OpenOffice.org suite as its office software from beginning of 2007.
| Ministry of Justice and its branch of administration will also adopt
| OpenDocument Format standard as the file format for its documents.
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http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=24732
2007:2 Migrating a Ministry to OpenOffice.org
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| After the migration, OpenOffice.org will be the primary office
| suite for 8500 persons and Microsoft Office for 1500 persons.
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http://www.om.fi/Etusivu/Julkaisut/Julkaisusarjat/Toimintajahallinto/Toiminnanjahallinnonarkisto/Toimintajahallinto2007/1171362109118
http://tinyurl.com/2g6sjy
Governmental programme boosts open source business in Finland
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| In a bid to get more open source exposure inside the Finish (sic)
| establishment, Tekes (the Funding Agency for Technology and
| Innovation of the Finnish government) launched a national
| development programme for open source business. Programme is carried
| out by COSS, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Software.
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http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=212
Red Hat becomes the 100th member of COSS, Finnish Centre for Open Source
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| As the home country of Linux, Finland is a natural operation environment
| for the leading Linux distributor. Red Hat values high Finnish open source
| know-how.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,43203.shtml
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