Office of Public Works

Update on Open Source Deployment

Liam Stewart Principal Officer / Head of ICT

liam.stewart@opw.ie

Office of Public Works

Update on Open Source Deployment

Liam Stewart Principal Officer / Head of ICT

Office of Public Works (OPW)

- Provides a range of services inc.:

- Property maintenance

- Property management

- Building design & construction

- Engineering services (inc. Flood Risk)

- National Monuments / Historic properties

- National Procurement Service

OPW – scale of ICT

- HQ is Trim, Co. Meath

- 1,200 no. users

- 125 no. sites

- Multidisciplinary organisation

ICT Newsletter & Info Sessions

Currently

- Started roll-out in 2005

- 800 no. users

- Feedback generally positive

Future

- All new PCs will have LibreOffice only

- Using WPKG to push out updates

- What file type to use (ODT, DOC, DOCX?)

The Gotchas!

- CWMF contract documents

- National Procurement Service standard tender

documents

Also – central Government, by and large has

migrated to MS-Office 2007 and upwards

No mention of Open Source anywhere in eGov

Strategy 2012-15!

Email

- 1,200 no. Thunderbird users (Lotus Notes

server)

- Migrating Notes server to Zentyal/Zarafa

- Target is 400 no. users in 2013

- Thunderbird & Web browser

- Mozilla Firefox installed on PCs by default

- Invited volunteers in August 2012

- Started pilot in August 2012 (20 no. users)

- Excluded professional staff due to AutoCad

- Reviewed December 2012 – feedback very

positive

- Additional 10 no. users now being added

- Management tools (e.g. Puppet)

Asterisk

- Currently 4 no. systems in use

- Botanic Gardens

- Glendalough

- Phoenix Park

- Inchicore workshops

Instant Messaging

- Currently being piloted in ICT Unit

- Seeking 30 no. volunteers in OPW for a pilot

- Decided on Openfire server

- Will trial different IM clients (e.g. Pidgin, Spark,

Jitsi etc.)

GIS

- Currently in pilot (but effectively live)

- 200 no. regular users

- Needs to tie in with proposed records

management policy

- Needs to incorporate workflows & business

processes

Next Steps

- GitHub (Source code repository)

- Zentyal (to replace Novell?)

- SugarCRM?