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Belgian Communes jointly opt for Open Source Software

12 Belgian communes (French and Dutch speaking) and 2 French Mairies participate in the CommunesPlone project. In doing so, they aim to gain independence from IT services providers by developing, essentially by themselves and in a cooperative manner, applications and websites for their own use as well as for their citizens’. CommunesPlones strategy mainly rests on two renowned multiplatform Open Source tools: Zope and Plone