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
 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
 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
 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.
 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
 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!

 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
 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 2003-2008
 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 2009-2012
 Guadalinfo: Accessibility
 2009-2012 objective
 In agreement with ONCE
 Guadalinfo as a accessibility lab:
 Accessibility
device kit
 Intelligent a11y
adaptation system
 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 ...
 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
 Government, business and
Community

Community matters: Needed Companies that:

 Third party improvements
 Ease maintenance
 Achieve amount of users
 Solve local problems, share
solutions globally
 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
 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
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?