The European Commission's Interchange of Data between Administrators (IDA) strategic initiative has announced the publication of a document that will:
1. ... [H]help Administrators decide whether a migration to OSS should be undertaken.
2. ... [D]escribe in broad technical terms how such a migration could be carried out.
The home page for the guidelines is here (The IDA Open Source Migration Guidelines) and describes them thus:
The IDA Open Source Migration Guidelines provide practical and detailed recommendations on how to migrate to Open Source Software (OSS)-based office applications, calendaring, e-mail and other standard applications.
They have been developed with guidance from public sector IT experts from Denmark, Finland, Italy, Germany, Malta, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. The relevance and readability of the Migration Guidelines were validated with the help of the regional authorities of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
The actual 198-page book is here (The IDA Open Source Migration Guidelines [PDF]) and seems to be quite comprehensive. The guidelines were produced in partnership with netproject.
Very cool. I remember discussing this with some Italian bureaucrats a couple of years ago. They had little idea what I was talking about. Much progress has been made since then, apparently.