Alveole's goals are to create, improve, release free software for the social economy. It also serves to bring up the software needs. It is finally set to encourage contacts between free communities and businesses of the social economy.

You will find in this page the following:

- How do I use Alveole to express a need of software for a specific sector of the social economy?
- How do I download software?
- How can I, as an IT, propose the creation or migration of a development project?
- How to migrate the source code on Alveole?
- How to participate in the development of software without being an IT?

- How to use Alveole to express a need of software for a specific sector of the social economy?
-> On the left side menu, there is a link called "Investigations". In this tab, there is a link to a form that allows you to indicate a specific needs. We keep a close eye on fullfiled forms. Once we are confident that a request is justified by its recurrence, we will create a project on the Forge. We will then contact you by email to inform you of this creation.

- How do I download software?
-> You should start by clicking the register link at the top right of the screen. Once you're registered, you can navigate through the software development projects - there you will find software to download.

- How can I, as an IT, propose the creation or migration of a development project?
-> See the link Terms of acceptance of a project in the left side menu.

- How to migrate the source code?
-> See the link how to export the source code in the left side menu, in the "socket".

- How to participate in the development of software without being an IT?
-> Tasks not achievable by an IT are many and very important! If you are not an IT but want to invest in a project, be shure that your help will be of great value ! There are needs including translation, writing documentation for users and especially to use software to report bugs! Do not hesitate, sign up by clicking on the link at the top right of the screen, then go to the project of your choice and contact the responsible person.