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Welcome to the Software Excellence Academy.

The Software Excellence eAcademy courses provide a journey designed to empower teams with the knowledge, tools needed to implement effective governance practices and software development processes.

Here you will be able to learn more about software governance, secure code development, software best practice adoption, software licence management tools.

We have created 4 separate learning spaces (or islands) for you to explore freely. Software Governance in GÉANT, Software Quality, Software Licencing and DevOps Practices.

You can watch the Welcome to the Software Excellence Academy video here:

And here you can see the Software Excellence Academy Roadmap. We have categorised the Academy into 4 sections.

More courses on the roadmap will become available throughout 2025. The highlighted modules are available now and can be found below the roadmap.

Onboarding Guide for Software Development Teams

Author: Elisantila Gaci

Introduction to Common Best Practices (CBPs)

Author: Dom Mayerl

Introduction to Open Source Licensing and Compliance

Open-Source Software (OSS) is broadly used in almost all software development projects in the GÉANT project, and so good practice of using appropriate licenses is crucial to protect GÉANT applications and organisation.

Primarily aimed at GÉANT GN5-1 project participants, the course follows on from last year’s popular OSS training, available here on the GÉANT eAcademy. As with the previous edition, the course was led by compliance experts from ORCRO Limited Andrew Katz and Alex Murphy in cooperation with GÉANT’s Senior GDPR & IPR Legal Advisor Magdalena Rzaca.

This course has been designed for software developers and engineers who are contributing to open-source projects and/or developing internal projects that use open source code. It is also recommended to leaders responsible for the development tasks in the GÉANT project.

Open Source Licensing and Compliance

Open source is broadly used in almost all software development projects in the GÉANT project, and so a good working knowledge of how open-source licenses work as well as understanding compliance and risks are crucial to securing your code.

The objective of this course is to enable software developers to contribute effectively to projects by – depending on the nature of the project – choose the most suitableOpen Source Software (OSS) license and verify if there are any license incompatibilities.