One year of LibreItalia"retrospective and perspective"
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LibreItalia retrospective and perspective
One year of Associazione LibreItalia
"retrospective and perspective"
Andrea Castellani, Gabriele Ponzo
Sept. 25th. 2015
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About us
Andrea Castellani
and.castellani@gmail.com
IT Advisor, free sw specialist
work in Regione Umbria
ICT Department
Open Source Competence
Center of Umbria Region
(CCOS)
LibreUmbria Project
Founder and Counselor
(BoD) of LibreItalia
andrea@libreitalia.it
Technical & Methodology
consultant at Stato Maggiore
Difesa by means of LibreIT
Document Management
System integration
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About us
Gabriele Ponzo
gponzo@gmail.com
Self Business Ent. (GPS)
info@gps.tr.it
Founder and Secretary of
Terni GNU/LUG
(GNU/Linux User Group)
segreteria@ternignulug.org
Founder and Counselor
(BoD) of LibreItalia
gabriele@libreitalia.it
in Membership Committee of
The Document Foundation
gabriele.ponzo@document
foundation.org
TDF Certified
Trainer and
Migration Exp.
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One Year of LibreItalia
founded on August 2014
more than 270 members
Google+ Community has
about 2.600 users
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One Year of LibreItalia
Goal of this Association is
indeed to aggregate all users
of LibreOffice Italian
Community to accelerate the
deployment and promotion
of LibreOffice and all FLOSS
(Free Libre Open Source
Software).
Moreover the Association
supports the dissemination
of digital culture, Open Data
Formats, Open Data and
Open Knowledge.
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One Year of LibreItalia
“Affiliate Member” of OSI (unique Italian Association)
selected as part of the “National Coalition for Digital Skills”
established by AgID
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Last year activities
some main activities brought
forward by the Association in
this first year:
Schools support (primary
and high) on choosing Free
Software to be used for
didactics and administrative
purposes, through
workshops and free
trainings;
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Last year activities
some main activities brought
forward by the Association in
this first year:
Training to teachers and
students on FLOSS and
LibreOffice through a
formative project called
“Grow up with bread and free
software”, included in AgID’s
national platform for digital
skills;
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Last year activities
Publishing an e-book useful
as a guide in schools which
presents FLOSS migration’s
advantages in schools and
gives useful tools to adopt
LibreOffice in didactics and
documents management;
Production of teaching
materials on LibreOffice
(slides, manuals, guides and
tutorials) released under
Creative Commons license;
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Last year activities
Attending every single event
about ICT (ForumPA,
Internet Festival,
International Journalism
Festival, etc.)
Supporting to ECDL
(European Computer Driving
License) based on FLOSS
products through the
arrangement of teaching
materials, exam preparation
exercises and on-line
simulations;
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Last year activities
Organization of lectures for
students, parents and
teachers about the
importance of digital
freedom;
LibreItalia annual
Conference in Bologna;
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Last year activities
Meetings with Public
Administrations to promote
and let them know all the
advantages of migrations
(RoadShow);
Promotion of meetings in
schools (but not only) about
conscious use of Internet
targeted to parents and
teachers;
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Last year activities
“Watchdog” activity to
constantly check press
articles information accuracy,
especially regarding
migrations;
See #nonsolopesaro about
Pesaro Municipality
counter-migration to
MS Office 365;
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Future of LibreItalia
The number of associated increases week by week
Contacts and support requests for migrations grow as well
Autonomous Provinces of Bolzano (Bozen) and Trento are
migrating according to TDF official migration protocol
SMD: Stato Maggiore della Difesa (Army, Marine, Aviation) is
going to migrate
workshop to teach people how to contribute in translation and
development
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Future of LibreItalia
Subscription of an agreement between MIUR aimed to spread
LiberOffice and Free Software in Italian Schools;
Organization of an important event on Open Formats aimed
to let Italy be sensible on Open Document Format adoption in
Public Administrations;
Creation of a guide for teachers to educate deaf people, in
collaboration with a national school for deafs;
participation to a TEDX in November 5th.
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Future of LibreItalia
Organization of short trainings for oncologic children in
hospitals, in collaboration with “Chianelli” association;
Production of OnLine trainings (MOOC) on LibreOffice;
sharing of them on Didasca and Oil Project platforms;
collaboration with EiPass to create didactic materials and quiz
for their certification exam;
LibreItalia annual Conference in Terni on 28th November.
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SMD: Good news!
Stato Maggiore della Difesa has about 150.000 PC's
countrywide distributed in barracks and administrative offices
Followed TDF migration protocol
LibreItalia role in this migration:
Support in pre-analysis;
Training of their trainers;
Support in e-learning objects
creation;
Communication support;
Basic technical support;
CMIS integration;
Workflow automation consulting with headless mode.
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Conclusions
We are satisfied since we would never have
guessed to have so many members and contacts
we've been able to make so many things we'd
have never imagined
all this stuff wouldn't have been possible without a
right and strong communication
Italians do it better! :D
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