Track | The Future of Open Source Business Philippe Bareille, Open Source Program Officer, City of Paris Mindtrek Conference 3rd of October 2023. Tampere, Finland www.mindtrek.org

1. From Lutece to CiteLibre, City of Paris' commitment to open source

2. 1.Why Open Source?
∙ Public money, public code
∙ Sovereignty, autonomy, reusability, a taylor-made roadmap,...
2.Development of the Lutece services platform
∙ A City/Administration service engine first developed in 2001, share since 2002
3.Modularity, reusability
∙ A strong open source culture within the development teams
∙ Modularity in design
4.Community management
∙ Limited space as operational Cityhall projects keep coming
A strong footprint in the open source culture
OSPO OnRamp | March 2023
FSFE PMPC Campaign

3. Designed to meet the needs of local authorities needs
The City of Paris develops its own digital services since 2001
 Built to meet the direct and constantly evolving needs of the City of Paris
 Offers a simple, unified administration interface for non-technical staff
 Offers solutions specific to a public service context, but not only
• User relationship management (reused to manage civil servant requests)
• A powerful and fully customizable workflow system for all administrative procedures
• Decision-support tools for improved service organization
• Service assignments and automatic notifications
250+ digital services implemented thanks to 500+ available business modules
Quick overview of the digital services platform 1/2

4. 1.E-administration made easy
∙ Paperless procedures: online appointment booking,
tax simulators, various application forms...
∙ "Tell us only once" - France Connect and identity
management
∙ Single sign-on, user data protected by an application
provider
∙ GDPR compliance
∙ A dashboard for a 360° view of connected user
requests
2.Involving citizens in city actions
∙ Participatory budgeting, public consultations, minor
incident reporting, idea submission, voting...
∙ Open Source as a vector of transparency, neutrality
of algorithms, respect for private data, trust between
administration and citizens...
Quick overview of the digital services platform 2/2

5. 1. A platform that expands accordingly with the municipal team's roadmap
∙ A solution based on real and evolving needs
∙ Internal team of 15 – completed with procurement of 60+ for departments projects and maintenance
∙ Strong culture of genericity, modularity and reusability
2. A community that is challenging to bring together
∙ Inconsistent efforts depending on the period…
∙ …despite a required technical support
3. Contributions difficult to integrate
∙ A few contribution guides but a hard time merging PRs
Development and organization
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6. Public and private services use Lutece for their websites / digital services
1.Lutece in (known) figures
∙ More than 31 communities of all sizes
∙ International implementations: Baltimore, Budapest... more to come
∙ Government operators
Diverse implementations around the world
8K 2M
∙ Private-sector users include notaires.fr and a hospital group
(hospitals and caring centers)

7. 1. The needs
∙ Professionalize our use and production of open source
∙ Find a sustainable way to scale the Lutece community and implementations
∙ Acculturate the teams on OSS
∙ Build partnerships to share, swap code, learn from feedback
2. A definition of a public-sector OSPO to be written
∙ Time to transpose from private to public sector
∙ Work with peers and experts through different networks
3. Good governance initiative methodology
∙ Contributions to the guidelines
∙ Direct implementations within the City
The creation of the OSPO
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8. 1. Position of the OSPO Officer
∙ Ensures that the definition of activities is disseminated,
shared and monitored
∙ Single point of contact for teams, as a facilitator,
within the department, but to be extended to avoid
heterogeneous practices that may be off its radar
∙ Reporting
2. First significant steps
∙ Launch of https://opensource.paris.fr
∙ Scale Lutece and simplified adoption through the
creation of CiteLibre
Concrete actions and benefits…
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Lutece Core
• User
management /
rights / roles
• Cache
management
• Settings...
Compatible and functional versions
Business bricks
Authentication bricks

9. 1. Significant steps
∙ Relaunch the community with events / workshops / webinars – Translation Hackathon!
∙ Support for local authorities - never been so quick and easy from 1st contact to local implementation
∙ Roadmap of future solutions
∙ Faster and more efficient internal PR management
∙ Internal animation and acculturation
2. Current actions
∙ Complete inventory of OS bricks and their environment, and B plans
∙ Communication about the tools we use
∙ Contributor's guides
∙ Definition of shared governance rules
…to be maintained and sustained
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10. Come join us!
@LuteceNews
https://lutece.paris.fr https://opensource.paris.fr https://citelibre.org
https://github.com/lutece-platform
https://github.com/citelibre
par
https://hub.docker.com/u/lutece
https://hub.docker.com/u/citelibre
(WIP)