difranco / sphere

A participatory project of worldwide Do-it-Yourself Biology (DIYbio) initiatives

🎉 Welcome to the DIYbiophere repository 🎉

We really appreciate your interest in our project and we would ❤️ your contributions!

At the moment, we are working hard 😅 to develop a "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) as they say in the techbiz. Please help us by contributing so we can eventually share it with early adopters! 🤘

About

The DIYbiosphere is a participatory project of Do-It-Yourself Biology (DIYbio) initiatives from all over the world. The project is open for anyone to add and edit entries (writers), as well as to code, design, and shape the overall project (developers).

The goal is to have a shared and common platform that can connect people and ideas in all its possibilities and encourage the DIYbio community to work on a common project. With the open data we gather we plan to map and visualize the DIYbio community in all its diversity across time and space to learn more about the movement and its futures.

We have our own entry in the DIYbiosphere! Go check it out!

How it works

The project functions similar to a wiki, but we use GitHub Pages to host and build webpages for the entries from Markdown text files. To learn more about the technical details, read the software section in the documentation

Participate!

In increasing order of engagement:

Connect

• Share this project with your friends and followers! They might be interested in using the project to find DIYbio initiatives or adding their own!
• ⭐ Star the project on GitHub! Starring helps attract potential contributors, especially expert and master developers!

Contribute

To contribute, you need a GitHub account ([sign up]), and you need to abide to our [Code of Conduct] and agree to our [Contributor Terms].

If you are new to GitHub check our [ELI5 guide] (Explain like I'm 5), made especially for the utterly confused.

Follow our tutorials! The steps differ depending on your [permission level] to the repository.

Writing entries

• Add a new entry: whether it's your initiative or someone else's
• Update/edit an existing entry: mispellings, outdated information, or just inaccurate, help us keep the entries error-free!

Developing the project

The development is organized through GitHub's Issues. Sort through the labels to find something that interests you. To contribute you can:

• Comment, answer, and vote: search our issues and see if you can help out by moving our issues along: answer a question, 👍 vote (voting) on a feature or enhancement, participate in feedback, assist on giving resolution to issues!
• Submit a new issue: report a bug, [ask a question], [share your idea] and wait for feedback and support from the community.
• Fork, commit, pull request your contributions! Tackle easy or critical issues or help someone on their request or idea.

Please follow our Contributing Guide. If you are a member, please help by moving issues along our [Ticket Workflow] assigning labels and so on. 😙

Get involved

• Join the development community. The project is managed by members of the DIYbiosphere community. Request membership and enjoy more access privileges to the project!
• Join the conversation. You can freely join the Gitter chatroom at gitter.im/diybiosphere/sphere, or in Slack at diybiosphere.slack.com, request a slack invite.

Learn More

Get a general Overview of the entire project page and where it is heading next in our Road Map.

Copyright

The work in this project is freely available to use, modify and distribute.

The content of the project (entries, data, etc.) is available under the public domain [CC0], except where otherwise noted.

The underlying source-code (HTML, JS, etc.) used to format and display that content is available under the [MIT] License.

You can review our [Terms of Use] for a human-readable version of the copyright, and our [Contributor Terms] to understand in legal terms the rights granted and/or waived from your Contributions.

If you wish to credit our work, please do so as “© DIYbiosphere contributors” or “© DIYbiosphere”

[Workflow]: [sign up]: https://github.com/join [ELI5 guide]: http://sphere.diybio.org/docs/resources/ELI5/ "Learn GitHub easy" [MIT]: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT "Go to MIT license" [CC0]: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ "Go to CC0 license" [LICENSE]: http://sphere.diybio.org/docs/copyright/terms-of-use/ "See a human-readable license of the DIYbiosphere" [Code of Conduct]: http://sphere.diybio.org/docs/legal/code-of-conduct/ [Contributor Terms]: http://sphere.diybio.org/docs/legal/contributor-terms/ "See in legal terms the IPR of the DIYbiosphere"