SILL application

The Socle Interministériel de Logiciels Libres (SILL) is a list of recommended free and open source software for use in the French public administration. It aims to standardise and promote the use of Free Software solutions within public institutions. The list is maintained and regularly updated by civil servants.

The SILL catalogue is the web application for maintaining and publishing the SILL catalogue. Our online instance of the SILL catalogue can be found here.

The SILL was started circa 2013 as a way to let ministries IT departments converge and agree to use the same Free Software: at the time, the perception was that Free Software were mature and secure enough for being used and recommended within the public sector, but that finding the right solution for specific needs was not that easy, due to the numerous existing alternatives. Nowadays, convergence is not the main goal: we rather want to inform about all existing solutions already deployed within administrations.

The SILL catalogue application is developed by the Free Software unit at the Interministerial Digital Directorate and released under the MIT licence.

 Repositories of this application can be found on GitHub unde SILL-docs, SILL-API, and SILL-Web.

Components of the SILL app include React, Keycloak and react-dsfr, the React implementation of the French design system and many more smaller libraries.