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

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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.

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