Based in Grenoble (France) the development team of the French “Ministère de l’Education Nationale” has implemented the French State Design System on the Angular development platform. The (so romantic) software name is “NgxDsfr” Licensed under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL-1.2) the software should help French Administrations (the targeted audience) to speed up application design and benefit from all interfaces to the DSFR (Système de Design de l'État Français) in the framework of Angular. What is Angular? It is a development platform, built using the TypeScript (JavaScript) language…

Developed by SitinCloud, a French company Located in Colombes, near Paris, and licensed under the EUPL, Owlyshield is a versatile and open-source EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) solution, which specializes in detecting intrusions through vulnerability exploitation, with a primary focus on identifying Command and Control, exfiltration, and impact tactics. It achieves this by learning the normal behaviour of applications and employing novelty detection to identify weak signals indicative of an attack. According to the provider, the software detects and stops threats in real-time without…

L’événement est gratuit et organisé par l’association Chamilo avec la présence de son président Monsieur Yannick Warnier, et n’a donc pas de vocation commerciale. Il s’agit principalement pour nous de valoriser l’utilisation de Chamilo et inviter la communauté francophone à auto-organiser des événements de rencontres et d'échanges.L'événement dénommé “ChamiloCamp” a pour premier objectif de faire connaître le projet Chamilo aux enseignants de la région, au travers de présentations des fonctionnalités de la solution et de la présentation d’expériences d’autres enseignants. Son objectif…

We start 2023 with exciting news for the medical and scientific community! GNU Health has been adopted by Fundación Jérôme Lejeune in Argentina, a leading organization in the research and management of trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) and other intellectual disabilities of genetic origin. Jérome Lejeune foundation has its headquarters in France, with offices in Argentina, the United States and Spain. On December 2022, the faculty of engineering from the University of Entre Rios, represented by the dean Diego Campana and the head of the school of Public Health, Fernando Sassetti, formalized the…

Échirolles, a small French city of around 35,000 inhabitants, has been awarded the highest level of the “Territoire numérique Libre” (TNL) label. The label has existed since 2016 and aims to reward cities and public bodies that pursue the use of free and open source collaborative solutions for their administration. The award ceremony took place during the Paris Open Source Experience on 9 and 10 November. There, Échirolles was recognised for its important work towards an open, digitalised administration. The level 5 of the label is awarded on the basis of a 12 page questionnaire with…

With worries of big household energy bills this winter, carbon footprint calculators may find a new use as people look for ways to analyse their energy use. "Nos Gestes Climat" (Our Climate Actions, repository) is a piece of software that already does part of this job, and its history shows how an open source project found new purposes addressing some of the most pressing needs of today. The code itself has already served in at least three very different projects: mycompanyinfrance.fr (repository) was originally developed by the French government in 2014 so that individuals and companies could…

The Declaration on the Common values and challenges of European Public Administrations underlines an overarching support of open source and interoperability within the public sector. On 16 and 17 March, the 27 EU ministers in charge of public administration, public transformation and civil service, alongside the European Commissioner for Budget and Administration Johannes Hahn as well as the European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Elisa Ferreira, met at the National Institute of Public Service (Institut National du Service Public). The event aimed to discuss common challenges and…

ANSSI, the French national agency for the security of information systems, contributed to the development of the OpenCTI project (Open Cyber Threat Intelligence), in a partnership with the Computer Emergency Response Team for the EU Institutions, bodies and agencies (CERT-EU). The community project released its latest software version in September 2021. OpenCTI is a cyber threat analysis knowledge management and sharing tool, published under an Apache 2.0 licence, and today managed by the Luatix association. Luatix is a non-profit organisation which conducts research and development in the…

The Ille-et-Vilaine department in France deployed an open source software for file management to 21 middle schools, accounting for 12,000 users between teachers and students. In December 2021, the French public interest group SIB (Syndicat Interhospitalier de Bretagne) kicked off a project with the German open source company Nextcloud GmbH and the British company Collabora Productivity with a view to improve the education system in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in France. Based in Rennes, SIB is a group for public interest which provides digital services as core business, managing the…

The Minister of Public Sector Transformation and the Civil Service of France, Amélie de Montchalin announced a new action plan for open source software in the public sector at the closing of the Paris Open Source Experience conference on 10 November. It sets up an Open Source Program Office within the public administration that will be responsible for implementing the plan and managing the state’s involvement in open source. The goals are as follows: to increase awareness and use of free software and digital commons in the administration, to develop and support the opening of source code in…

On the occasion of the 2019 European elections and ahead of France’s 2022 presidential elections, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched in 2019 a toolbox of open source software and open resources to fight disinformation. As of December 2021, Internet users can access software to detect fake Twitter accounts, assess the legality of political advertisement on Facebook, and use multiple further resources on good practices to counter disinformation. Further work is ongoing to develop and deploy additional online resources. Fake news, disinformation, misinformation: in the past decade…

It may look strange and even quite extraordinary, but until today (December 3, 2021) the European Union Public Licence (EUPL) was not yet considered as a “Legal Licence” for use by administrations in France. This omission is now repaired by a Décret n° 2021-1559 of 1st December 2021 adding the EUPL as a "Legal licence" in the Code of Relationship between the Public and the Administrations (CRPA). Before this Décret, French public administrations wanting to make use of the EUPL had to justify it case by case in a long administrative process. Since the EUPL is a reciprocal licence stating that…