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March 2011

At Document Freedom Day on 30 March 2011, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) awards the German City of Munich a Document Freedom Day Prize, for promoting free software by using the LiMuxproject. At the moment, LiMux is the largest GNU/Linux project in Germany. It is expected that with this project, 80 % of the 15 000 PC desktops of the city council of the capital city of Bavaria will have migrated to the free operating system GNU/Linux by 2013. Since 2009, all PC desktops have moved to a free officecommunication platform (OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird, Firefox) and almost 6 000 computers have been using the LiMux client.

The single phone number for contacting government authorities in Germany,115is among the winners of the '365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas'competition. An independent jury of experts selected 365 winners from about 2 600 applications; the winners were introduced to the public from 1 March 2011 during a series of regional events.