How did we define this persona?
This space is for all developers, software engineers, coders and technical profiles in Liège province. Whether they already work within the non-profit sector, are employed in the private sector and looking for meaning, or are young talents in training eager to take on real challenges, the DevTeam brings together our community of volunteer coders. These are passionate people who often find themselves isolated within their respective organisations, facing a lack of resources or the absence of a tight-knit community to share their ideas with.
What challenges and objectives are at stake?
Like every group Cœur Historique supports, developers face their own kind of chaos: isolation behind the screen, scattered effort, and difficulty accessing professional-grade tools. The most common trap is that everyone, in their own corner, ends up reinventing the wheel. Due to a lack of resources or access to suitable infrastructure, many non-profit tech teams under-use their potential or cannot access the development tools they would need. Our goal is to bring order to this chaos: to pull coders out of isolation and pool skills rather than let them scatter.
What concrete actions have been put in place?
Two kinds of action come together here, without blurring into one another.
On the structural side, Cœur Historique itself sets up and maintains a shared infrastructure: a **shared GitHub organisation** that centralises repositories and projects to put an end to duplicated effort, regular meet-ups and our participation in **specialised sector events**, plus free access to tools, licences and infrastructure resources that isolated coders could not obtain on their own. The non-profit also supports, in a voluntary, community-based way, people carrying socially-driven tech projects, helping them find their footing.
On the human side, it’s our **volunteer developers** who make the difference: members of our network who give their time and freely pass on their own experience to other isolated coders or to non-profits lacking technical resources - a peer-to-peer exchange of skills, never a paid service.
The end result of this mutual support is that the digital tools born within the community are then refined and distributed free of charge to every other non-profit and community group across the territory.
In summary: Our commitments at a glance
Free, no strings attached: A shared GitHub organisation and pooled tools, set up by the non-profit to put an end to duplicated effort between isolated developers.
Skills-based volunteering: Volunteer developers give their time and freely pass on their own experience to other coders or to non-profits facing technical difficulties.
Shared tech resources: Free access to the development tools, licences and cloud environments essential to projects, at no cost to those who benefit.
Free tools for non-profits: Applications built within the community are standardised and then distributed free of charge to every other non-profit and community group across the territory.