Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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Homes England Pilots OpenProject for Major Housebuilding Programme Management
Homes England has begun a six-month pilot of OpenProject, the open source project management platform, to coordinate delivery…
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Buckinghamshire Council Adopts OpenStreetMap Basemaps to Cut Mapping Spend
Buckinghamshire Council has switched its public-facing planning and highways portals to use OpenStreetMap-based tiles rendered via the open…
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OpenBIM Alliance Calls for IFC to Become Mandatory in UK Public Procurement
The OpenBIM Alliance has submitted a formal response to the Cabinet Office’s consultation on construction procurement reform, urging…
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ONS Publishes Open Source R Toolkit for Local Area Housing Need Assessments
The Office for National Statistics has published a new open source R package on GitHub, designed to help…
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Nextcloud Gains Ground in UK Councils Seeking Sovereign Cloud Alternatives
A growing number of English district councils are deploying Nextcloud as a self-hosted alternative to Microsoft 365 SharePoint…
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PostgreSQL Adoption Grows Among UK Water Utilities Following Oracle Licensing Shake-Up
Several UK water utilities, including Severn Trent and Yorkshire Water, are accelerating migrations from Oracle Database to PostgreSQL…
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Dartmoor National Park Authority Adopts Nextcloud for Secure Planning Document Collaboration
Dartmoor National Park Authority has deployed a self-hosted instance of Nextcloud Hub 8 to manage sensitive planning and…
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Homes England Pilots OpenProject for Major Brownfield Development Programme Management
Homes England has begun a six-month pilot of OpenProject, the open source project management platform, to coordinate its…
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Suffolk County Council Deploys LibreOffice Enterprise Across 6,000 Staff Desktops
Suffolk County Council has completed a full rollout of LibreOffice 24.8, supported by Collabora Productivity, replacing Microsoft Office…
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OSArch Community Launches Open Source Toolkit for UK Planning Application Drawings
The OSArch open source architecture community has published a new toolkit built on top of FreeCAD and BlenderBIM…