Date:
18 November 2019

Our giveback pledge

As part of our commitment to open source, Salsa offers 20% off any new and/or enhanced features (e.g. modules or themes) we build for our customers and contribute back to the relevant open source community. The register below shows the items we’ve contributed with our clients. We give the client a 20% credit based on the effort invested in the contribution, to be used however they see fit (within the project or elsewhere).

See our blog Salsa’s giveback pledge for more information.

More than just commits

Open source is about more than just the number of commits/pull requests. Open source is an ethos that can encompass a range of actions, from community engagement to event sponsorship to knowledge sharing through publications to open design to open sourcing documentation. Part of the ethos is also about celebrating and promoting people’s achievements and contributions across the different open source communities. This giveback register represents a way we can celebrate our clients’ commitment to open source in the form of sponsoring (with a little help from us!) improvements.

The register

Date Agency/organisation Giveback details

November 2018

GovCMS/Department of Finance

Open sourcing GovCMS training documents

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November 2018

GovCMS/Department of Finance

Salsa sponsored one-third of the effort to have the GovCMS SaaS platform and application IRAP assessed. Salsa invested in the order of $45K at our own cost to ensure GovCMS is IRAP compliant to OFFICIAL:Sensitive.

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October 2019

Data.qld (Department of Department of Housing and Public Works)

Co-sponsorship of contributing new features to CKAN open data portal

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November 2019

Department of Communications and the Arts

Salsa based our design for classification.gov.auExternal Link on the Australian Government Design System (designsystem.gov.au). At the end of the project’s design, we contributed back the design assets and user research from the project. We also contributed our time to align GovCMS base theme, the design government design system, and the specific design for classification.gov.au to assess re-use and contribution potential.

August 2020

WorkSafe

Four accessibility improvements to Victoria's Single Digital Presence. Fixes cover dynamic page announcement, page head, colour and HTML validation.

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August 2020

The Architects Registration Board of Victoria

New search functionality for Victoria's Single Digital Presence

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May 2021

Civic Aviation Safety Authority

Contributions towards a new, user-centred and accessible GovCMS D9 theme (CivicTheme) that can be reused across government. We conducted user research across navigation, usability, interactions and visual appeal for template designs.

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2021

Department of Health

Partnering to give back eight new features to Victoria’s Single Digital Presence

2021

CivicTheme MVP build

Creating a design system for use with GovCMS D9 and other content management systems.

Read more about CivicTheme

2021

Merlin

Improving the Merlin interface and associated open source documentation on GitHubExternal Link .

2021

CASA

Partnering with CASA to create website user interfaces, conduct user research for navigation, usability, interactions and visual appeal.

2021

GovCMS and Drupal community

Event contributions and sponsoring $10,000AUD of community events

We’re proud of these contributions and very grateful to the agencies above, who share our ethos for giving back to the open source community.

Feel free to reach out if you’d like to find out more about how our giveback pledge works.

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