The government of Norway will no longer fund its open source resource centre, Friprog. Activities are wound down and the centre will be closed at the end of the year, Friprog reports. The GoOpen conference, planned for last September but postponed to May 2015, is now cancelled.

Friprog’s board decision to close the centre comes two weeks after the Norwegian government announced the end of the annual 4.5 million krone subsidy (about 550 thousand euro). The decision was published as part of the 2015 state budget. Open source observatory

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