The LibreUmbria project aims to widely adopt the LibreOffice productivity suite across regional and local governments, schools, and authorities in the Umbria region of Italy. Financed by the Umbria region and managed by the Consorzio SIR Umbria consortium, the initial phase involved the Umbria region, SIR, local health authorities, and educational institutions. The project uses a five-part methodology focusing on team engagement, tasks, communications, training, and tools to transition users to LibreOffice through training, customized extensions, and community building. The ultimate goal is to create a LibreOffice user community across the different organizations.
2. LibreUmbria is a regional initiative to widely adopt
LibreOffice productivity suite on regional and local
government, schools and authorities in the
Umbria Region.
3. The project is financed by Umbria Region, supervised by Open
Source Competence Center of Umbria Region (CCOS) and
managed by Consorzio SIR Umbria (the Consortium of Local
Authorities for development of innovation and Regional
Information System), with the collaboration of The Document
Foundation.
The pilot phase involved, Umbria Region, SIR, Local Health
Authority of Perugia (ASL1), the two Provinces of Perugia and
Terni, the School of Public Administration Villa Umbra.
4. GOALS
Suitable methodology to reuse migration path
Share hilights and best practices
Marketing campaigns dedicated to internal users
Press campaigns to spread key principles of LO migration project
and its importance to PA, Citizens and SME.
Training plans dedicated to different users
5. From technology to people, for people
LibreUmbria is not a case study or a best practice,
is only a love story
6. Methodology or migration path?
5 working areas
Team: all the people involved
Task: planning & schedule
Tell: communicate LO and tell a good story
Train: learn LO and what it can do for you
Tool: why LO
8. Becoming community: the most ambitious purpose of the project
School
of PA
PA
CCOS
SIR
SCHOOL
Umbria
Region
Province
of Perugia
Province
of Terni
LIBREOFFICE
COMMUNITY
export
SME
Health
Authority
USERS
9. TASK
Consider different point of view: Project needs vs Users expectations
Project
Survey
Communicate
(Tell)
Training
(Train)
Installation
Support
Users
Training
(Train)
Installation
Test Practice
10. TELL
5+5 why move to LibreOffice
Motivational meetings with users, politicians, sponsors
Press office and Events
Project website (blog) www.libreumbria.it
Social Networking
Facebook
Twitter
G+
Linkedin
YouTube
16. TOOL
Why LibreOffice?
Open (art. 68 CAD, L.R. 11/2006)
Community based Support
TDF endorsement and partnership
Interoperability
Ease of implementation
18. FirmaconDike
DiKe is a tool to digitally sign, timestamp and verify a document. It
is commonly used in most of Italy's PA, and it is copyrighted and
distributed by Infocert SpA, the software house owned by the
Italian Chambers of Commerce Association.
26. Comments and suggestions
Moving to LibreOffice is a training issue and not a
change management process because it doesn't
affect any organizational process.