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RO-Crate Community

Table of contents

  1. RO-Crate Community
    1. Team
    2. Steering Committee
    3. Meetings
    4. Mailing list
    5. Slack Chat
    6. Contact us
    7. Code of Conduct
    8. Contributing
    9. Open Source

Team

The RO-Crate team is:

The RO-Crate Community is open for anyone to join us!

Steering Committee

We are in the process of adapting the Minimal Viable Governance and are establishing a Steering Committee:

  • Carole Goble
  • Peter Sefton
  • Stian Soiland-Reyes

You may contact the steering committe at contact()researchobject.org for any confidential matter.

Meetings

The RO-Crate team try to meet at least monthly in a telcon, see the rolling agenda for schedule, call-in details and minutes.

There are also regular regional drop-in calls aimed at those newer to the RO-Crate community. These sessions are suitable for beginner questions, as well as discussing ideas for new tools/integrations.

Members of the RO-Crate team can often be found presenting at open science conferences and events: see the list of recent and upcoming events for details.

Mailing list

The RO-Crate Community has a low-traffic public RO-Crate mailing list, used for announcements and general enquiries.

Note: Do not attempt to sign up to the mailing list, as we get about 1000 spammer subscriptions a day. Sign up in GitHub issue #1 and we will add you manually.

Note that most discussion about the RO-Crate specifications typically happen in GitHub issues and community meetings.

Slack Chat

We have an informal Slack chat channel #ro-crate on seek4science.slack.com (join).

Contact us

For general technical questions, please feel free to use the Slack chat or contribute a GitHub discussion. The members of the RO-Crate community will collaboratively try to assist.

If you have a technical request that you are not comfortable posting in a public forum like Slack or GitHub (e.g. use in commercial software), you may email ro-crate()researchobject.org – note that this list goes to a couple of volunteers and we cannot provide any support guarantees.

For organisational or confidential requests, e.g. letter of support for a funding proposal, email contact()researchobject.org which goes to the Steering Committee.

Remember to replace () with @ in the above email addresses

Code of Conduct

Contributors to the RO-Crate community are expected to comply with our Code of Conduct to ensure an open and inclusive environment. You may email conduct()researchobject.org to report any Code of Conduct concerns.

Contributing

To suggest changes, improvements or issues, use the GitHub repository https://github.com/ResearchObject/ro-crate - if you are new to GitHub or Open Source you may appreciate the GitHub guides like Hello World, MarkDown and How to contribute to open source

You are welcome to join us!

Open Source

This specification and documentation is Open Source and licensed as Apache License, version 2.0, see https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 for details.