Summary: Public Foundation, promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, launched on November, 2006. It is a strategic project to promote the understanding and use of open source technologies
Industry: Public Foundation
Number of Employees: 15
Estimated Annual revenues: N/A
Implementation: Extremadura (Spain). 500 h. Started in Nov'07. Finalized in Jan'08
Subsidies to projects and assets: is a foundation that receives subsidies for develop its work. Currently its incomes are subsidies from different organizations and entities of its board
Promote projects: the foundation detects the opportunity for an open source project and receives budgets from other companies that will develop the projects
Special accounting due to be a public Foundation
Perfect connection between subsidies-projects and assets-Procurement: they are now able to justify the expenses related to each project that has received a subsidy
Project Management: incomes and expenses always related to projects
Accounting adapted to public entities
Projects cost: perfect control of the incomes (subsidies) and project expenses
Unique Management System: financial, procurement and projects managed with one single information system
Extended reporting allowing the justification of the expenses related to projects subsidized
Events 
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