"Supporting the development of digital commons" is a strong axis of the new Digital Strategy for Education 2023-2027 of the French Ministry of National Education, which uses a lot of open source software but also contributes to it.

Sovereign and sustainable, the Forge of Digital Commons is one of the projects of this strategy.

France has nearly a million teachers. Among them, there are teachers developing Open Source softwares but there are also more and more teachers using text format (markdown, LaTeX...) to create and share educational content. Yesterday all these projects were scattered over multiple forges including Microsoft's GitHub which is difficult to trust in the long term. Hhosted and managed by the ministry, the "Forge of Digital Educational Commons" project aims to pool all these projects on a dedicated GitLab instance and invite the school community to participate.