Speech at 2010 GNOME Development Summit (GUADEC) Open Desktop Day Further information: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/guadec-list/2010-July/msg00059.html

1. Ubiquitous Open Source in Spain:
How government, business and
community work together

2.  Free Software in Andalusia
 Guadalinex and Guadalinfo project
 Government, business and community
– Guadalinex example
– Guadalinfo accesible example

3. 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

4. Free Software in Andalusia
Prehistory
 Known to IT people since early 90's
 Mostly used on the server side
 Self training
 Transparent to the end user

5. Free Software in Andalusia
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

6. Free Software in Andalusia
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.

7. Free Software in Andalusia
Open Source World Conference
 2004 Málaga
 2005 Mérida
 2006 Málaga
 2007 Badajoz
 2008 Málaga
 2009 Cáceres
 2010 Málaga, 27-28 October

8. 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!

9. Guadalinex: by numbers
Schools Internet centres
– >300.000 desktops – 764 in small towns and
– >2.000 public schools districts of bigger cities:
Guadalinfo
– >180.000 laptops for
students and teachers – 635 public libraries
– 100.000 more to be – 200 centers for elderly
delivered in course people
2010/2011
– Goal : >1.400.000
students in >4.000
schools

10. 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

11. 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

12. Guadalinfo 2003-2008

13. 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

14. Guadalinfo 2009-2012

15. Guadalinfo: Accessibility
 2009-2012 objective
 In agreement with ONCE
 Guadalinfo as a accessibility lab:
– Accessibility
device kit
– Intelligent a11y
adaptation system

16. Guadalinfo: Accessibility
 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 ...

17. Government, business and
Community
Community way Government way
 Open devel. Model  Only final product available
 Meritocracy matters  Financial and workforce
capacity matters
 Quality terms:
 Closed terms:
– Functionality of interest
– Budget
– Needs of project
– Roadmap
– Hacking habilities
– Requirements
– Penalties

18. Government, business and
Community
Community matters: Needed Companies that:
 Third party improvements  Understand opensource way
 Ease maintenance  Relates with community
 Achieve amount of users  Can fulfil government terms
of contract
 Solve local problems, share
solutions globally  Willing to put the right
hacker to do the job
 Willing to try getting work
into upstream

19. Guadalinex example
 Tech Objectives:
– Care of spanish citizens needs
– Improvements over Ubuntu
– Release at Ubuntu +45d
 Target community
– Local citizenship
– Ubuntu approach for upstreaming

20. Guadalinex example
 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

21. Guadalinex example

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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?