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Contributing to OMII-UK

• Tell us about your software requirements - what are you trying to do at the moment but can't? Email support@omii.ac.uk
• Tell us about software that has been useful to you - register the details of the project.
• Tell us about the software that you have written - register the details of the project.

• strengthen the e-Science community by sharing your knowledge of effective e-Science software
• strengthen the open-source development community by highlighting projects that deliver useful e-Science functionality
• build a development and user community around your project that could drive support and funding by OMII-UK
• improve knowledge sharing and global collaboration between scientists and also between industry and academia.

Contributing Software and Documentation

• Licensing: OMII-UK releases the majority of its own funded activity under a Modified BSD licence. This is a very permissive licence, approved by the Open Source Initiative, that allows both binary and source re-distribution for commercial exploitation.
• Structure and Installation: Most, but not all if OMII-UK's software is based around web services. To ease the integration of different software packages into our distribution we have provided these guidelines.
• Coding: We have provided Java coding guidelines, derived from the Java coding styles suggested by Sun, that we suggest that you follow if writing new software.
• Functional Specification: In order to understand how the software you are developing behaves it is useful to describe what it does. This is encapsulated in a functional specification - an example of which is provided here.