2nd announcement in REDCap forums

Unfortunately, many of you don't have access to the new forums launched this summer. Talk to your site admin for details about the forums. Posted yesterday at https://community.projectredcap.org/content/idea/6178/redcap-tools.html.

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(I'm reposting the previous Google Groups post so that it's visible to those new to the community.)

I'd like to introduce the community to the REDCap-Tools GitHub organization, started by Scott Burns this fall. Besides hosting a few repositories, the Projects page describes the many tools developed for the REDCap ecosystem. Until we enumerated them, we didn't realize that at least seven programming languages have a client-side library (at least in beta) that facilitates REDCap's API (ie, Go, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, JavaScript, & C#). Furthermore, the Projects page points to an API Troubleshooting vignette and a new collection of language-agnostic datasets (that the developers may use to test their API libraries).

Here's the description from the home page:

REDCap-Tools is an organization that fosters interesting projects built against REDCap. Developers and projects in this organization have no official ties to REDCap other than looking to push the data management capabilities provided by REDCap’s more advanced tools (namely the API and Data Entry Triggers) to their fullest potential. We hope to foster projects across a wide-range of programming languages. Our other goal is to connect users to the best existing libraries and resources for their needs.

If you have written a tool or application that helps improve reproducibility or accuracy in your a REDCap-based project, please consider housing it in this organization. This growing community of advanced REDCap end-users may find interest in your project and may want to help make it better. Also, if you move on in your career, placing your project under this organization will help to keep it growing and improving after you have moved on.

Notably REDCap-Tools takes no ownership over the projects hosted in this organization. That is left to the discretion of the author(s).

If you have a suggestion, please consider creating an issue for it in this repository. (ed note: Or you can always stir up trouble in a forum thread like @andrew.arenson. If so, I'll try to cc the package developer because many of them don't have access to this Google Groups forum.)

(cc: @rollie.parrish @philip.chase)