1. 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 impact, or are young talents in training eager to take on real challenges, the DevTeam represents our technological driving force. These are passionate creators who often find themselves isolated within their respective organisations, facing a lack of resources or the absence of a tight-knit community to challenge their ideas.
2. What challenges and objectives are at stake?
The biggest trap facing developers today is the scattering of efforts: everyone, in their own corner, constantly trying to reinvent the wheel. Due to a lack of financial resources or access to professional infrastructure, many non-profit tech teams under-use their potential or cannot access the high-end development tools they need. The goal is to break this silo logic and centralise these skills. By uniting a community of 10, 20, 30 or 200 developers around a shared vision, we aim to unify efforts to streamline software production and design robust, standardised solutions.
3. What concrete actions have been put in place?
Cœur Historique acts as a powerful catalyst and unifier for the local tech community. We bring together forces and projects within centralised interfaces, starting with our **shared GitHub organisation**, while encouraging direct experience-sharing at regular meet-ups and **specialised conventions** in which we actively take part. To concretely support our coders, we remove material barriers by giving them access to the complex development tools and infrastructure resources they could not otherwise benefit from. Beyond pooling code, our non-profit also acts as an official incubator for socially-driven tech start-ups, providing fertile ground to propel solidarity-based innovation projects forward. The ultimate outcome of this synergy is of critical importance: unifying and packaging all the digital services we develop, to make them freely available to every other non-profit and community across the territory.
In summary: Our commitments at a glance
Federation & Shared GitHub: Centralising your code repositories and projects on our shared spaces to put an end to duplicated effort.
Social Tech Incubator: An official incubation framework dedicated to cutting-edge start-ups that put technology at the service of the common good and social progress.
Tech Resource Grants: Free access to the development tools, licences and cloud environments essential to your projects.
Free Open-Source Packaging: Standardising our applications to build a catalogue of turnkey tools, distributed free of charge to other non-profits.