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Municipality of Makedonska Kamenica Migrated to OpenOffice.org
As a result of the training for OpenOffice.org conducted by Metamorphosis Foundation and USAID’s project for successful decentralization - Make Decentralization Work Project for employees of the Macedonia’s local self-government units, municipality of Makedonska Kamenica started to actively use OpenOffice.org on all computers in the municipality.
“After several employees of the municipality of Makedonska Kamenica attended the training for OpenOffice.org they have asked for OpenOffice.org in Macedonian language to be installed on their computers. Now, OpenOffice.org has been installed on all the computers, employees have already acquired basic skills and it is easier for them to work since the software is in Macedonian,” said Pero Mitrevski, mayor of the municipality of Makedonska Kamenica.
Makedonska Kamenica is a small municipality with 11 personal computers and 1 server. The municipality has system administrator responsible for the computers.
Survey conducted by Metamorphosis in May 2006 shown that free and open source software is great solution for Macedonian municipalities since their budget is restricted or they have not allocated resources for purchasing software licenses.
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