The code and its licence
are what make this open.
Not the address it is served from. Sextant is EUPL 1.2, published as Dutch government open source, and mirrored where the people who would contribute already are.
code.overheid.nl/MinBZK/DAWO-Sextant
Published as Dutch government open source. Not open to the public yet, which is why the mirror exists at all.
github.com/BB-Open-Solutions/Sextant
Where participation happens: issues and pull requests here. Opens at 1.0.0.
Developed in collaboration with VNG and SSC-ICT.
EUPL 1.2.
The European Union Public Licence. Run it, study it, change it, and share it. Built for public bodies, useful to anyone who has ever wondered what a laptop in the field is really running.
We would genuinely like the company.
This is a small project doing something ambitious, and the useful work is not all deep in the domain model.
Hardware profiles
Every laptop model needs a disk layout and imaging notes. If you have a machine we do not, that is a self-contained contribution with an obvious test: image it.
Translations
The console ships English and Dutch. Adding a language is one map in the catalog.
Integrations
They are ordinary fleet settings. If you run something the fleet should know about, the pattern to copy is right there.
Run it and tell us what broke
Honestly the most valuable thing anyone can do. The rough edges we know about are named; the ones we do not are the point.
Beta.
Feature-complete for its first production use and being prepared for one. The fleet this is developed against runs it — imaging, rollouts in rings, directory login, endpoint security and disk-encryption escrow, on real hardware.
Beta means the shape is settled and the remaining work is proving it rather than designing it. Expect the APIs and the fleet document schema to stay put. Expect rough edges where the first fleet has not pushed yet, and expect us to say which those are rather than pretend otherwise.
Help wanted: developers, testers and maintainers. To collaborate, or just to ask whether this fits what you are doing, get in touch.
Tell us about your fleet.
How many devices, what they run today, what an auditor last asked. We will say honestly whether Sextant fits.