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European Commission DIGIT initiative fostering open source adoption in consolidating the European Institutions web presence

The OpenEuropa Initiative

OpenEuropa is a Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT) initiative aiming at strengthening the adoption of open source tools and practices in consolidating the European Institutions' web presence.

In order to achieve such a goal the OpenEuropa Initiative will focus on the following activities:

• Build, maintain and release loosely-coupled, reusable software components , licensed under EUPL-1.2.
• Build, maintain and release fully-fledged solutions for the European Institutions.
• Provide a high-level architecture overview of web-related information systems.
• Establish reusable technical governance guidelines.
• Contribute back to upstream open source projects.

For more information please check:

• OpenEuropa initiative
  • Code of Conduct
  • Release cycle
  • How to contribute
  • Contribution workflow
• OpenEuropa Components
  • OpenEuropa components
  • OpenEuropa maintainers
• Before you start
  • Solution definition
  • Repositories scaffolding
• Development guidelines
  • Content architecture
  • Configuration management
  • Writing tests
  • Module update policy
  • Tooling
  • Dependency management
  • Development Workflow
  • Coding standards
  • Frontend development
  • CI And deployment workflow
  • Code reviews
  • Release workflow
• Templates
  • Issue template
  • Pull request template
• Development guides
  • Drupal
• Automated testing

For support requests when using the components please use: [email protected]