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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear Jonas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have been in contact with the Commission IT helpdesk to get advice on how to use this mailing list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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I received the Commission policy document on internal use of email and have been asked to come back to them with a summing up of merits of Open Source (which would lead us to DebianParl)<span style="color:#1F497D">.</span> With thanks to the courtesy of EFSUG,
 I located the document at <span style="color:#0070C0"><a href="http://epfsug.eu/wws/arc/epfsug/2014-04/msg00010/CommissionPolicyOnTheInternalUseOfEmail.pdf"><span style="color:#0070C0">http://epfsug.eu/wws/arc/epfsug/2014-04/msg00010/CommissionPolicyOnTheInternalUseOfEmail.pdf</span></a></span>.
 I think this link is what is called a “<i>plain web URL to the public canonical location of the document</i>”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Can you please send me something that I can forward to my helpdesk regarding the merits of DebianParl?
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Furthermore, and finally: would it be possible for you to comment on what it would entail to make a 'DebianComm' for us who work in the Commission?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">//Jaap</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jacques VERRAES</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">European Commission<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">DG Research & Innovation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">COV2 09/025</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">1049 Brussels/Belgium</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:jacques.verraes@ec.europa.eu"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">jacques.verraes@ec.europa.eu</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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