The glossary serves to standardise the meaning of commonly used words and concepts in our communications.
Glossary terms
For the terms below we believe it is important that we have a clear definition of their meaning. If we use one of the following terms in any of our communications they will mean their definition in this glossary.
- Affiliate
- Codebase
- Contractor
- Contributor
- Ecosystem level
- End user
- General public
- Guide
- Index
- Maintainer
- Open source
- Open standard
- Product
- Public code
- Resource
- Staff
- User
Requesting of adding a new term
If there is a term you are unsure about or you think should be in the glossary, please create an issue.
If you want to add a term, please follow the steps set out in the contributing guide and make a pull request.
Please add the term in the correct alphabetical order.
For example: * [Public code](publiccode.md) between Public administration and Public sector.