Created: James Gardner, 2016-02-14
Audience: Community
Maturity: Planning
We all want OpenTrials to be an open community of organisations and users that contribute and consume data.
This includes contributing to this community repository on policy, data sources, types of documents and artices that can make their way onto the main OpenTrials website.
This document explains how you can contribute to this community repository.
Note: There are lots of ways you can help the wider project too, some of these are described in Contribution Calls.
## What
The main way you can help contribute to this repository is to:
- Read the files in the repository
- Submit improvements
There are loads of possible improvements, you can propose new paragraphs, replacement text for existing paragraphs, new documents that should exits, extra items to add to existing lists etc etc
The easiest way to propose an improvement is to email the community manager at james.gardner@okfn.org with:
- The text you're proposing needs to be added or replaced
- How you would like to be added to the
CONTRIBUTORS.mdlist
After review (see below), the community manager will commit your change to the repository together with your name.
If you are a more technical person, you can contribute changes in other ways. Advanced Contributing
Your contribution will be discussed and reviewed. If two members of the OpenTrials community team agree to it, it will be accepted.
Over time, people who contribute lots of accepted improvements generally earn the right to be a reviewer themselves. This is based on the discression of the exiting reviewers (currently the OpenTrials team). Any time there is any dispute, Ben Goldacre has the final say, but obviously it is our job as contributors to avoid getting into a situation where we ever have to ask Ben to decide!