Bibliography
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Documents
The following is a list of documents which might be a useful reading for people applying for certification.
LEGAL
Larry Rosen - Open Source Licensing
Raymond Nimmer - Legal Issues in Open Source and Free Software Distribution
MIGRATIONS
AJ Schuler - Overcoming Resistance to Change: Top Ten Reasons for Change Resistance
Cabinet Office Home Office - Open Source Procurement Toolkit
Carlo Daffara/Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona - Open Source Software for Open Government Agencies
CENATIC - Criteria for adopting open source software in Public Administrations
Christos Bouras/Vasileios Kokkinos/Georgia Tseliou - Methodology for Public Administrators for selecting between open source and proprietary software
Curran Hamilton/David Hersh/Jacqueline McPherson/Tyler Mobray - Migrating from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice in an Academic Enterprise Environment
David A. Wheeler - Open Source Software (OSS) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Gijs Hillenius - Governments could save millions by reducing their dependence on a single desktop PC software vendor
HM Government - Open Standard Principles
ICFOSS - Migration of Desktops to Free Software Platforms
Maha Shaikh and Tony Cornford - Total cost of ownership of open source software: a report for the UK Cabinet Office supported by OpenForum Europe
Martti Karjalainen - Large-scale migration to an open source office suite: an innovation adoption study in Finland
Michael Beitler - Overcoming Resistance to Change
UNU-MERIT - Study on the economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU
OPEN FILE FORMATS
Barbara Ubaldi - Open Government Data: Towards Empirical Analysis of Open Government Data Initiatives
Bob Sutor - Debunking ODF Myths
Bjoern Lundell - Long-term sustainability through Open Source software implementations of open file formats
Daniel Carrera - The Future is Open: what OpenDocument is and why you should care
Edward Macnaghten (ODF Alliance UK Action Group) - Technical Distinctions of ODF and OOXML
HM Government - Open Data White Paper
HM Government - Open Standards in Government IT: a Review of the Evidence
IBM - Emerging business value of OpenDocument format v1.0
IDABC - European Interoperability Framework for Pan European eGovernment Services
J. David Eisenberg - OASIS OpenDocument Essentials (Using OASIS OpenDocument XML)
Lawrence Rosen - Defining Open Standards
Markus Feilner - Complex Singularity vs Openness (open source impeded by incompatibilities and inconsistencies in the Office Open XML document format)
OASIS - Open by Design (The Advantages of the OpenDocument Format)
OASIS - OpenDocument Format for Office Applications
Rishab A. Ghosh - An Economic Basis for Open Standards
Sam Hiser - What is OpenDocument
PDF as a Standard for Archiving
PDF/A in a Nutshell 2.0
The Benefits and Risks of the PDF/A-3 File Format for Archival Institutions
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Jonas Gamalielsson and Bjoern Lundell - Open Source communities for long-term maintenance of digital assets: what is offered for ODF and OOXML?
Jonas Gamalielsson and Bjoern Lundell - Sustainability of Open Source Software Communities Beyond a Fork: how and why has the LibreOffice project evolved?
Karl Fogel - Producing OSS
Lydia Pintscher - Open Advice
Paul Dravis - Open Source Software
Red Hat - The Open Source Way
TRAINING
Bernard John Poole - Essential LibreOffice Tutorials for Teachers
FAO - E-Learning Methodologies. A Guide for Designing and Developing E-Learning Courses
Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Training Evaluation in Detail
Mo Hamza - Developing Training Material Guide
The eLearning Guild’s - Handbook of e-Learning Strategy