And now, for something totally different: EveryDesk!

“Now that most of our work for FLOSSMETRICS is ended, I had the
opportunity to try and work on something different. As you know, I
worked on bringing OSS to companies and public administration for
nearly 15 years now, and I had the opportunity to work in many
different projects with many different and incredible people. One
of the common things that I discovered is that to increase adoption
it is necessary to give every user a distinct advantage in using
OSS, and to make the exploratory process easy and hassle-free.

“So, we collected most of the work done in past projects, and
developed a custom desktop, designed to be explorable without
installation, fast and designed for real world use; EveryDesk is a
reinterpretation of the Linux desktop, designed to be used in
public administrations or as an enterprise desktop. EveryDesk is a
real OS on a USB key, not a live CD; this way the system allows for
extensive customization and adaptation to each Public
Administration need It is the result of the open sourcing of part
of our HealthDesk system, designed using the result of our past
European projects COSPA (a large migration experiment for European
Public Administrations), SPIRIT (open source health care), OpenTTT
(OSS technology transfer) and CALIBRE (open source for industrial
environments).”

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