How to contribute

Last modified by lzehl on 2021/07/02 15:37

openMINDS is by design an open-source, community-driven project incorporating input and feedback from all community members independent of their scientific background.

For this reason openMINDS provides different options on how to contribute, each dedicated to the broader expertise of a contributor.

Please find below a summary of how you can and should contribute to openMINDS.

Be nice!!!

Contributing to openMINDS should be a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

For more details please go to: Code of conduct

Do not be shy!

We, the openMINDS development team, rely on you, as a community member, to get in touch if you have general feedback or a request for a new feature, want to report a bug or have a question. Depending on the type of message for us, you can either contact us via our support-email or via an issue on our GitHub repositories.

For more details please go to: Report & ask questions

Help us directly!

openMINDS is an open-source project and contributions from outside the openMINDS development team are very welcome. If you spot a bug and know how to fix it, if you want to extend existing schemas and/or metadata models, or develop new schemas and/or metadata models, feel always free to contribute directly through pull requests for the respective GitHub repositories.

For more details please go to: Direct contributions