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Information for contributors

↵ Welcome page

Great to see you. We would be delighted to have you on board of our development team! So if you are interested, read on for some information on how to contribute.

If you don't know what ELIXIR Cloud & AAI is all about, just follow the link at the top of the page. Otherwise read on to find out more about our values and what we can offer you.

Our values

  • Openness: all of our code is open source, usually from day one, and available publicly under a license approved the Open Source Initiative
  • FAIRness: we want data, code, analysis workflows and infrastructure to be findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable
  • Privacy: we believe that sensitive personal data should be under the control of the individual and should be shared, processed and analyzed only upon and to the degree covered by informed and specific consent, using the highest security standards

Challenges

Here is an incomplete list of some of the challenges that you can sink your teeth in:

  • Aid the development of consensus-driven community standards for the ethical, secure and efficient sharing and analysis of sensitive data together with international partners in big and small public and private organizations
  • Help to develop scalable, secure, microservice-based web applications that implement these standards
  • Support the production-grade, containerized deployment of these services on modern infrastructure in public, private and hybrid cloud settings
  • Help design and implement the security features governing the services individually and in combination, including the flow of authentication and authorization according to community standards
  • Write high-quality, tested, scalable and secure code with the goal of enabling thousands of professional users in academia, the public healthcare sector and industry to analyze sensitive data in a federated cloud environment!

Get involved

Our offer

We offer you

  • to work with us in a thriving and welcoming international community of experts with diverse backgrounds, including developers, IT specialists and bioinformaticians
  • the opportunity to tackle modern, highly relevant technical challenges on the way to personalized medicine and other ventures involving the sharing of big data across national and international boundaries
  • support, feedback and appreciation for your work, as well as involvment in and influence on policy decisions proportional to the level of your engagement

Our expectations

We would only expect you to

  • please respect our Code of Conduct
  • make an effort to adhere to good coding practices and our contribution guidelines (we will of course help you with that!)
  • communicate clearly and openly with us with regard to any issues that you take responsibility for, especially if you realize that you cannot or do not want you to continue with something (which is of course totally fine!)

Where to go from here

Goole Summer of Code

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Apart from casual or regular contributions through this GitHub organization, we are also a part of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health mentor organization during the Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Just follow the link and view the ideas list.

Specifically, the following projects for GSoC 2020 were proposed by us:

  • Dynamically adding data to DRS
  • TESK: towards a federated compute infrastructure

Feel free to apply - or even propose your own project! (Deadline: March 31 18:00 UTC)

A previous student has kicked off development of the following project during GSoC 2019:

Hackathons

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You can also find us frequently at relevant hackathons. Here is a list of hackathons we currently plan to attend:

We have led projects during the following past hackathons:

  • DDBJ BioHackathon 2019 in Fukuoka, Japan
  • ELIXIR BioHackathon 2018 in Paris, France
  • ELIXIR BioHackathon 2019 in Paris, France

Contribute via GitHub

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  1. Explore our project overview page and see if there is anything that you would like to work on in particular (links to issue boards are available and most projects should have one or more issues flagged as good 1st issue); or perhaps you would like to propose an issue or even a project yourself?
  2. Sign up to GitHub.
  3. Before you start working on your first issue, please carefully read the contribution guidelines.
  4. Assign yourself to the issue of your choice
  5. Start coding :)