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My friends in Brussels are getting ready to launch the "Open Source Observatory". They plan to provide coverage on Open Source Policy adoption around the world (but especially in the European Union). A lot has happening in the world of Open Source in Europe since I first visited a couple of years ago when everyone was just trying to understand the whys and wherefors. This is an official European Commission website with content edited by actual free and open source software activists!. The website has been up since January, but they are going to add human editors to make sense of the rush of information that is rolling in. Also hosted on the site will be IDA publications designed to help EC nations to sort out how to use open source, including all the migration guides, gender bias studies, procurement guidelines and other great things. This site will be really useful to help all the other nations of the world decide where to start in formation of their own Open Source programs offices. Bravo, IDA!