Thank you for your interest in contributing! 🙇
We – the maintainers and contributors of this project – understand that a Standard like this can only be set in collaboration with as many public technologists, policymakers and interested folks as possible. Thus, we appreciate your input, enjoy feedback and welcome improvements to this project and are very open to collaboration.
We love issues and pull requests from everyone.
Please help development by reporting problems, suggesting changes and asking questions. You don't need to change any of our code or documentation to be a contributor!
Anyone is welcome to participate!
The best ways to do so are:
- Participate in discussions
- Once you know your contribution is ready, open a pull request
Help us bring new Free Software into governments!
You can add a publiccode.yml file in your repositories, ask other projects to do it,
or, even better, help us create tools.
Don't be afraid to start new ones and show them to the community.
Add a publiccode.yml file to your repositories!
After that, you can submit it to national catalogs, for example:
We are happy to have you here!
Take a look at the Charter and, once you made sure you are the right person, please create a new post.
The Chair will get in touch with you and get you started.
We strongly encourage you to also contribute translations (if applicable) and, if needed, a national section. Just make your changes and submit a Pull Request.
If you never used GitHub, get up to speed with understanding the GitHub Flow or follow one of the great free interactive courses in the GitHub learning lab.
This project is CC-0 licensed, which essentially means that the project, along with your contributions, is in the Public Domain in whatever jurisdiction possible, and everyone can do whatever they want with it.
This project uses the GitHub flow branching model.
Add your changes in commits with a message that explains them. Document choices or decisions you make in the commit message, this will enable everyone to be informed of your choices in the future.
When submitting the pull request, please accompany it with a description of the problem you are trying to address and the reference to the relevant Issue or Discussion.
If your Pull Request is about a part of the Standard or the Governance of the project, it's considered as a formal proposal and will be voted on, following this procedure.
All contributions have to be reviewed by someone.
It could be that your contribution can be merged immediately by a maintainer. However, usually, a new Pull Request needs some improvements before it can be merged.
Other contributors (or helper robots) might have feedback. If this is the case, the reviewing maintainer will help you improve the Pull Request.
If your documentation or code have passed human review, it is merged.
Your ideas, documentation and code have become an integral part of this project. You are the Open Source hero we need!
In fact, feel free to open a Pull Request to add your name to the AUTHORS
file and get eternal attribution.