Contributing to FreeCAD websites #

Technical information for contributors interested to work on FreeCAD websites.

The Ecosystem #

Currently, the websites infrastructure of FreeCAD consists of the following :

• The FreeCAD website acts as the main entry point into FreeCAD’s universe for all users, contributors and interested parties.

• The News Blog brings together development news, tutorials and use cases from the community.

• The Wiki gathers all the documentation about FreeCAD, from usage to installation, development, release notes and much more. Historically, this has been the all-purpose place for all FreeCAD-related matters. A more development-oriented portion of it has been migrated to this Developer Handbook.

• The Developer Handbook is the very site you are currently in.

• The Forum is one of the many places where the community meets and exchanges.

• The FreeCAD Project Association website groups everything that relates to the association overseeing the FreeCAD project.

In addition to the implemented websites listed above, several external platforms are used :

• The Repositories of FreeCAD main codebase, building and packaging, continuous integration, addons, macros, library, websites and more are on GitHub.

• The Translations of the software interface and the main website are on Crowdin.

Moreover, here are the current implementation initiatives not yet used :

• The FreeCAD Documentation overhaul as part of the GSOC 2023

Technical details #

FreeCAD website #

The website mainly uses HTML/PHP, CSS, the Bootstrap and jQuery JavaScript libraries, the Font Awesome toolkit.
To contribute to the main website, find here a few advices and ressources.

News Blog #

The News Blog is based on WordPress.

Wiki #

The News Blog is based on MediaWiki.

Developer Handbook #

The Developer Handbook uses Jekyll, a Ruby static site generator, and Markdown.
To contribute to the Developer Handbook, find here a few advices and ressources.

Forum #

The News Blog is based on phpBB.

FreeCAD Project Association website #

The FreeCAD Project Association website also uses Jekyll, a Ruby static site generator, and Markdown.
To contribute to the FreeCAD Project Association website, find here a few advices and ressources.