How the Colmena project uses GitLab to support citizen journalists
- The Colmena project is a mobile digital newsroom for field reporters and media outlets, developed together with local and community media from the Global South.
- The project is free to use, open source, and aims to help people find their voices and tell their stories while supporting their communities.
- GitLab is used by the Colmena project as a development platform and code repository.
- The wiki feature of GitLab serves as a documentation space for the project team and collaborators, providing information for onboarding new members and sharing knowledge internally.
- Coordinators of the Community of Practices (CoPs) collect suggestions and report bugs using GitLab.
- The Colmena project follows a philosophy of free and open source software and aims to maintain this approach in its development platforms.
- The project can be browsed and contributed to on GitLab.
- The GitLab Open Source Partners are building the future of open source on GitLab.