Canada's Government Technology Event, Nov. 5-8, 2012, Ottawa Convention Centre, Ottawa - This year GTEC celebrated its 20th year attracting a full house and over 200+ booths. One of those booth's was the Open Source Alliance of Canada (OSACan). OSACan is Non-Profit established to encourage public sector IT managers, executives and their technology partners to explore, adopt and contribute to open source technologies.

The University of Ottawa has commissioned OpenPlus to rebuild their primary corporate website into Drupal7 as well as perform a usability review for many of their top websites. OpenPlus is currently the lead Drupal7 architect consultants,  the University has over 650+ websites.

Near the end of 2010 Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an exective order for all public institutions to switch to open source software. Initial estimates are that over the next 5 years this change will end up saving the government millions in licencing costs. However it's been speculated that that may not be the main reason for the switch. Despite claims of security and stability over open source coming from companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and Adobe governments and private companies are becoming more reluctant to use software essentially owned by an external company.