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## [BlueHats Day](https://code.gouv.fr/fr/bluehats/forgeons-2025/) - "Let's Forge!" on March 13, 2025

[Forge platforms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software)) are
collaborative development platforms that today hold an essential place in the
contemporary digital ecosystem. For this simple and unique reason, they
represent a significant issue for free software. The creation of the
interministerial working group "Forgeons !"  ("Let's Forge!") in November 2024, reflects this reality through the diversity of its protagonists: Education, Culture, Research, Information and Environmental Sciences, Citizenship.

With Microsoft's acquisition of Github in 2018, and more recently with [the
increased pressure from digital giants](https://archive.is/Hcwvk) on the
European ecosystem, the need for a free and independent development platform is
even more pronounced. It thus becomes crucial to counterbalance the hegemony of
the [Big Tech](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech) by strengthening the
role of free and alternative forges such as
[Gitlab](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab) and
[SourceHut](https://sourcehut.org/). It is in this context that the work group pays particular attention to the [Forgejo](https://forgejo.org) project as a fully free platform, supported by a dynamic community, and moreover, [anchored in Europe](https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/what-is-codeberg/#what-is-codeberg-e.v.%3F).

A first open workday for all audiences will be held on March 13, 2025, at the
[Public Transformation
Place](https://www.modernisation.gouv.fr/accompagner-les-administrations/laboratoires-interministeriels-dinnovation/lieu-de-la)
and will be an opportunity to discuss the current issues. It will notably be a
question of establishing a first assessment of the great diversity of forge
derivations, or "professional forges," with two main themes: "Educational,
Creative, and Social Forges" on the one hand, and "Forges and Digital Twins" on
the other. Consult the **[🧢 detailed program](programme.md)** for more
informationi (in French).

... *Let's forge!* 🔨

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