{"id":190,"date":"2020-06-12T08:55:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T12:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/?page_id=190"},"modified":"2020-08-27T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T20:09:21","slug":"being-a-contributor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/being-a-contributor\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a contributor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We welcome folks to join the effort and we&#8217;re happy to share your info on our &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/about-us\/\">About Us<\/a>&#8216; page (as much or as little as you prefer!).\u00a0\u00a0 Some guidelines we have for items you wish to have available for download on our site.\u00a0 We&#8217;d also like to get some new Authors and help with managing our website.\u00a0\u00a0 More details below. Don&#8217;t hesitate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/join-us\/\">Contact Us<\/a> if you have questions\/interest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEBSITE<\/strong>: We&#8217;d like to add a Forum capability to our site, potentially using something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phpbb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like phpBB<\/a>.\u00a0 We&#8217;re running on Linux, using Apache, and a pretty complete tool set.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re interested in the setup and helping with moderation &#8211; welcome!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOFTWARE\/TOOLS<\/strong>:\u00a0 Developing software <em><strong>is a lot of work!<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 We don&#8217;t ask you to give up ownership, but we do encourage you to consider making it &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/free-sw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Source<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 You still have the copyright and will always be the &#8216;founder&#8217;&#8230; but it allows other programmers to help and make improvements.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/xcsoar.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">XCSoar<\/a> is a\u00a0 good example.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the minimal case, all we need is the executable.\u00a0 Add an &#8220;About&#8221; menu item.\u00a0\u00a0 You must include at least the version info of the software and a &#8220;FREE for redistribution for non-commercial use&#8221;.\u00a0 We encourage to also add your name and copyright.<\/li>\n<li>Think about sharing your source code.\u00a0 Currently we have one large package <a href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/jmurtari\/fly\">using Git and hosted on Gitlab<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 We can help you with setup.\u00a0 The platform also allows you track bugs and control access so others can help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>DOCUMENTATION\/TUTORIALS:<\/strong>\u00a0 A lot of good software fails because of poor user documentation.\u00a0 Nobody enjoys writing documents and <strong><em>it&#8217;s a lot more work<\/em><\/strong>!\u00a0 All we need is a PDF, but again we welcome you also supplying a .doc file so others can make revisions\/changes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/fdl-1.3.en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check here<\/a> for more info on public documentation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AUTHOR\/ARTICLE<\/strong>: You can see we carry postings from different members of the Soaring Community on our site.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an opportunity for a thoughtful article and to encourage some discussion.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t have to be a &#8216;web wizard&#8217; to be an Author.\u00a0 We can take care of all the formatting.\u00a0\u00a0 Currently interested in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clubs using a structured syllabus for instruction, student progress tracking, and grading.<\/li>\n<li>Simulator\/Condor usage in training and before\/after changes in student performance.<\/li>\n<li>A student perspective on the usage of Condor in your training.<\/li>\n<li>Send us your idea!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>We welcome folks to join the effort and we&#8217;re happy to share your info on our &#8216;About Us&#8216; page (as much or as little as you prefer!).\u00a0\u00a0 Some guidelines we have for items you wish to have available for download on our site.\u00a0 We&#8217;d also like to get some new <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/being-a-contributor\/\" title=\"Being a contributor\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}