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Q: I'd like to participate. How do I begin?
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You can take a look at the list of our current and planned projects and check if there is something that your are interested in http://neuro.debian.net/projects.html. Moreover, you can skim through the list of software at http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs.html -- maybe there is something that needs packaging or you are interested in co-maintaining an existing package. And of course some of these packages have open bugs that need attention. If you found something (or even if you didn't and still want to help) contact us at neurodebian-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.
— Michael Hanke (hanke) · 7 years ago
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Q: Other than writing code, how can I contribute?
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1Find relevant software
If you know about some software that we do not list yet, please let us know. We'll show you hw it can be registered in the corresponding Debian Blend so it will appear on the NeuroDebian website.
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0Spread the word
Provide feedback: http://neuro.debian.net/testimonials.html , and advise others to use NeuroDebian: http://neuro.debian.net/spread.html
— Yaroslav Halchenko (yarikoptic) · 7 years ago -
0Improve the website
The website is generated from plain text files. You only need to be able to use a text editor to help improve them. If you have some content to add, some better icon, or any other improvement: tell us about it.
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0Make screencasts or HOWTOs
We started doing some screencasts to show people, who are unfamiliar with a Linux desktop, how powerful this environment is. There is a HUGE demand for HOWTOs in the neuroscience domain too. If you enjoy creating these things, we'd love to talk to you.
— Michael Hanke (hanke) · 7 years ago -
0Monitor bugs in Debian-derivatives
If you are using one of the Debian derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu, Mint) you could monitor the respective bugtrackers for problems in neuroscience software packages on these platforms and let us know about them.
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0Participate in popularity contest
Every Debian-based system comes with popularity-contest package. If you han't done so yet, please enable your participation via 'dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest'.
— Yaroslav Halchenko (yarikoptic) · 7 years ago -
0Tag packages
If you only have minutes or seconds to offer, but you still want to make a valuable contribution, please go and tag packages. This will greatly improve the user experience of Debian and help people find the software they are looking for: http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ssearch.html
More information about debtags is available at http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/
— Michael Hanke (hanke) · 7 years ago -
0Make screenshots
When searching for software a screenshot often helps to figure out whether a particular software is a good candidate. However, many packages do not have screenshots yet. Please help out by going to http://screenshots.debian.net/ and upload screenshots of your favorite software.
— Michael Hanke (hanke) · 7 years ago
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Q: What's a good bug for a newcomer to tackle?
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1Try packaging a simple neuroscience software for Debian
While this may not be a trivial task, we would be happy to mentor you.
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0Become a co-maintainer of a package
If you use one of our packages on a regular basis, you can make valuable contributions to its Debian packaging. You are probably aware of things that could be better and things that don't work at all. Tell us about them, or even try to fix them. Don't hesitate to ask us how you could achieve that without wasting too much time!
— Michael Hanke (hanke) · 7 years ago
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Q: What is a bug or issue with NeuroDebian that you've been putting off, neglecting, or just plain avoiding?
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1Write more tests
Neuroscience software often comes without good test suites (sometimes even without any). If you are familiar with a particular software you can write tests for it ans submit them to us. Even simple tests will help to improve software quality.
— Michael Hanke (hanke) · 7 years ago
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About NeuroDebian
Ultimate OS for Neurosciencs
from the profile of Yaroslav Halchenko (yarikoptic)
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- Michael Hanke hanke Halle Saale projects: matlab-support, pynifti, Debian GNU/Linux, NeuroDebian, PyMVPA, NiBabel, NiPyPE
- Yaroslav Halchenko yarikoptic Hanover, NH, United States projects: Ubuntu, Git Buildpackage, pydbgr, brian, fsl, qlandkartegt, pynifti, odin, mrtrix, mricron and 75 more lipsia, itksnap, gifticlib, fslview, drmaa, dicomnifti, cython, caret, voxbo, vowpal-wabbit, symeig, remake, qwo, pytracer, python-mode, pyoptical, pyode, pyimport-relative, pyglet, pyevolve, pyepl, pyentropy, pydicom, psychopy, psignifit, openpyxl, openopt, openmeeg, NiPyPE, nifticlib, NiBabel, mlpy, meshlab, mdp, lush, libfann, jsmath-fonts-sprite, jsmath-fonts, jsmath, impressive, impose+, imagezoom, guppy, gkrelltop, gcalcli, freeipmi, foxyproxy, fail2ban, edac-utils, dares, ants, Debian GNU/Linux, garmindev, nrn, History4Instantbird, reportbug, libfreenect, scikit-learn, joblib, nipy-suite, nitime, nipy, gitwash, vowpal_wabbit, NiPy-OLD, dipy, scipy3, dmcluster, svgtune, apcupsd-multi, pythm, git-bzr, NeuroDebian, PyMVPA, Debian
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