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posted by martyb on Thursday August 02 2018, @09:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the ...wants-to-be-free dept.

As part of its move to Free and Open Source Software, the city of Rome, in Italy, has begun to phase in LibreOffice as the only available suite of office productivity tools on its desktops. Those city employees who currently use productivity software one hour per month or less are in the first group to migrate. Heavier users will follow in the near future. Eventually around 14,000 desktops in all will be addressed.

In April, Rome completed the installation of LibreOffice alongside the proprietary alternative on all of its 14,000 PC workstations. This means that city staff can try out LibreOffice and gradually get familiar with the office suite. Staff members who use the proprietary office suite intensively will not be forced to switch.

As part of the change management approach, the city is partly relying on 112 staff members who are in favour of free and open source. This means that, on average, the city has two such innovation champions per department. They help explain the reasons for the change to LibreOffice, and encourage their colleagues to find out more by pointing them to a Moodle-based eLearning portal. Last month, the champions received a two-day training course to boost their LibreOffice expertise and prepare them to help train their colleagues.


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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @09:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @09:49AM (#716601)

    I think this time Libreoffice's blitzkrieg will work. Just attack when MS Office is doing its update thing.

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