On 31st August City of Schoten started rolling out its migration towards OpenOffice.org.
Harrie Hendrickx, Mayor, together with 9 other city employees were the first to be trained how to use Writer in their daily duties.
During 2010 all 400 city workers will have been trained and will be using Writer as there preferred text processor.
dinsdag 1 december 2009
Port of Antwerp
Antwerp, 2nd largest port in Europe
Antwerp Port Authorities have decided to move to OpenOffice.org.
Some 1300 workstations will make the move in 2010
Antwerp Port Authorities have decided to move to OpenOffice.org.
Some 1300 workstations will make the move in 2010
zaterdag 16 mei 2009
Anderlecht, Chaleroi and Vorst
City of Anderlecht:
In Anderlecht, on 23rd April the local citycouncil received an update of the migration of all 600 desktops from MS Office to OpenOffice.org. The minutes of council are not yet online, but we understand that the migration has been successful and that the city will safe 250.000 EUR.
As early as Feb 2006, every new computer was equipped with OOo together with MSO. Problem was that nobody was using OOo, as everybody was used to MSO.
At the end of 2007, some key-users were asked to start using OOo on a voluntary basis. At the same time, the CIBG (Centre for Informatics of the Brussels Capital Region - Anderlecht belonging to this region) made a study what the impact would be on a total migration.
In Summer 2008, the city council decided to go for a total migration.
Basically, training consisted of comparing MSO with OOo, so it was clear that differences were not that big. 91% of users were following the training. Further support was/will be given by key-users and CIBG. Templates were developed for easy use.
Documents can be received in various formats, are saved in ODF, are transmitted internally in ODF, externally in PDF, and if transmitted externally and to be returned the format will be in MSO.
Very soon all computers will be upgraded to OOo 3.x
City of Charleroi:
About 1 year ago, the city of Charleroi decided to start the migration of their 1600 desktops to OOo. Actually 300 PC's have been migrated and 400 people have been trained. The opportunity was taken to give a wider IT-training as a lot of employees never had a proper training. Although Charleroi is not belonging to the Brussels Capital Region, CIBG gave them full support
City of Vorst:
The IT department has closely followed the developments in Anderlecht and will soon develop their own roadmap towards OOo. Also here CIBG will probably be a partner as Vorst is situated in the Brussels Capital Region.
In Anderlecht, on 23rd April the local citycouncil received an update of the migration of all 600 desktops from MS Office to OpenOffice.org. The minutes of council are not yet online, but we understand that the migration has been successful and that the city will safe 250.000 EUR.
As early as Feb 2006, every new computer was equipped with OOo together with MSO. Problem was that nobody was using OOo, as everybody was used to MSO.
At the end of 2007, some key-users were asked to start using OOo on a voluntary basis. At the same time, the CIBG (Centre for Informatics of the Brussels Capital Region - Anderlecht belonging to this region) made a study what the impact would be on a total migration.
In Summer 2008, the city council decided to go for a total migration.
Basically, training consisted of comparing MSO with OOo, so it was clear that differences were not that big. 91% of users were following the training. Further support was/will be given by key-users and CIBG. Templates were developed for easy use.
Documents can be received in various formats, are saved in ODF, are transmitted internally in ODF, externally in PDF, and if transmitted externally and to be returned the format will be in MSO.
Very soon all computers will be upgraded to OOo 3.x
City of Charleroi:
About 1 year ago, the city of Charleroi decided to start the migration of their 1600 desktops to OOo. Actually 300 PC's have been migrated and 400 people have been trained. The opportunity was taken to give a wider IT-training as a lot of employees never had a proper training. Although Charleroi is not belonging to the Brussels Capital Region, CIBG gave them full support
City of Vorst:
The IT department has closely followed the developments in Anderlecht and will soon develop their own roadmap towards OOo. Also here CIBG will probably be a partner as Vorst is situated in the Brussels Capital Region.
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