Ubiquitous Open Source in Spain

Ubiquitous Open Source in Spain: How government, business and

community work together

Free Software in Andalusia

Guadalinex and Guadalinfo project

Government, business and community

– Guadalinex example

– Guadalinfo accesible example

About Andalusia

Southernmost region of continental Spain

Sun, beaches, wines&foods … Free software!

Junta de Andalucia is the Regional Government

About 250.000

public employees


Prehistory

Known to IT people since early 90's

Mostly used on the server side

Self training

Transparent to the end user


Legal regulations (I)

2003 Decree for the impulse of Information Society:

– Free software will be used in Public Schools

– Free software will be used in Public Internet Access Centers

– Use of free software by the citizens will be promoted and supported


Legal regulations (II)

2005 Order for the public availability of software owned by Junta de Andalucia

– All custom made applications owned by Junta de Andalucia, present and future, will be free software.

Open Source World Conference

2004 Málaga

2005 Mérida

2006 Málaga

2007 Badajoz

2008 Málaga

2009 Cáceres

2010 Málaga, 27-28 October


Guadalinex Is the GNU/Linux distribution of Junta de Andalucia

Based on Ubuntu (formerly based on Debian)

Gnome as desktop, because:

– Simplicity, compared to other desktops

– Previous experience in Extremadura (GNU/LinEx)

– Accesibility Agreement with ONCE (Spanish National

Organization for the Blind)

Base software to implement other projects

A nice penguin, Andatuz!

– >300.000 desktops

– >2.000 public schools

– >180.000 laptops for students and teachers

– 100.000 more to be delivered in course 2010/2011

– Goal : >1.400.000 students in >4.000 schools

– 764 in small towns and districts of bigger cities: Guadalinfo

– 635 public libraries

– 200 centers for elderly people

Guadalinex: by numbers

Schools Internet centres

Guadalinex: new plans

Analisys of requirements for an Administration Edition of Guadalinex (GEA), about to finish

Small scale migrations to free software

– Phase 1: On the same operating system

– Phase 2: Deployment of GEA

Guadalinfo 2003-2008

Goals:

– Bring Internet on < 10.000 people towns

– Computer literacy

– Digital training

Results:

– 634 Guadalinfo centers

– 400.000 total registered users

– About 40.000 distinct users every month

Guadalinfo 2009-2012 Goals:

– Get andalusian population into the modern knowledge society

– Remove the digital divide for the disabled or socially marginated people

Results (by now):

– 764 centers in < 20.000 towns and cities district with risk of social margination.

– 550.000 registered people

– 110.000 activities

Guadalinfo: Accessibility 2009-2012 objective In agreement with ONCE Guadalinfo as a accessibility lab:

– Accessibility

device kit

– Intelligent a11y

adaptation system

Contributions to Community projects:

– Improvement of ORCA

– Enhancement of OCRFeeder and Evince

– On screen keyboard Caribou and predictive text system Presage

– And more to come ...

Guadalinfo: Accessibility

Community way Open devel. Model

Meritocracy matters

Quality terms:

– Functionality of interest

– Needs of project

– Hacking habilities

Government, business and Community

Government way Only final product available

Financial and workforce capacity matters

Closed terms:

– Budget

– Roadmap

– Requirements

– Penalties

Government, business and Community

Community matters: Third party improvements

Ease maintenance

Achieve amount of users

Solve local problems, share solutions globally

Needed Companies that: Understand opensource way

Relates with community

Can fulfil government terms of contract

Willing to put the right hacker to do the job

Willing to try getting work into upstream

Guadalinex example

Tech Objectives:– Care of spanish citizens needs

– Improvements over Ubuntu

– Release at Ubuntu +45d

Target community– Local citizenship

– Ubuntu approach for upstreaming

Consider:– Listen your local users

– Work at upstream community forges

– Sync community roadmap with yours

Benefits:– Local citizenship will reveal what OSS lacks

– Community will show what local work matters globally

Guadalinex example

Guadalinex example

Guadalinfo accesible example

Tech Objectives:– Bug fix/Enhancements/Doc on Orca & OCRFeeder

– Requests designed with ONCE

– Upstream required to assure maintenance

About the target community:– Gnome focused

– Bugzilla and mailing list to collaborate

– Manages their own roadmap

Guadalinfo accesible example

Consider:– Gain credit first in order to be listened

– Sync community roadmap with yours

– Involve with community beyond your scope

Benefits:– Community helps on design, coding and peer review

– If useful, your work will be maintained by community

Conclusion

Community means opportunity Private companies could ride with it A sustainable FLOSS industry appear Society breaks with private soft. habit

Will this new culture drive the change?

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