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Aller à la page d'accueil [en Français](index.md).

# Presentation

This page is the wiki of the free software unit of [Etalab](https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/)/[DINUM](https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/), in charge of the action plan for free software and digital commons for the French public administration.

We publish here various resources about [code.gouv.fr](https://code.gouv.fr) and our other products.

# The Free software unit at Etalab/DINUM

[Read more](https://speakerdeck.com/bluehats/dinum-50b5bb2c-3e6c-4541-a988-b6fafcf446ca) on what is the Free software unit and what we do.

# Free Software guides: using, publishing and contributing

- [Why Etalab's Free Software unit uses SourceHut](why-sourcehut.md)
- [\[FR\] Introduction to the catalog of recommended free software](sill.md)
- [Glossary](glossary.en.md) for [code.gouv.fr](https://code.gouv.fr)

# Action plan for Free Software and digital commons

You can read the english translation of the French [action plan for Free Software and digital commons](- [Plan d'action logiciels libres et communs numériques](plan-action-logiciels-libres-communs-numeriques.md)).

# Contribution Policy for Free Software of the State (2018-2021)

- [Contribution Policy for Free Software of the State (2018-2021)](pocos/index.en.md)

# Contributing

Contributions are welcome!  You can send patches to the public mailing list [~etalab/logiciels-libres@lists.sr.ht](mailto:~etalab/logiciels-libres@lists.sr.ht).  If you are a regular contributor, you can request write access to [the wiki repository](https://git.sr.ht/~etalab/logiciels-libres).

For patches to target this repository, add this parameter to your local copy: `git config format.subjectPrefix 'PATCH logiciels-libres'`

# License

Contents of this repository are published under the [Open License 2.0](https://spdx.org/licenses/etalab-2.0.html).