The move to Github is a powerful one, and one that we know will foster a strong, active community.
When we started building OpenClinica more than eight years ago we wanted to build a community around it and one has really emerged. I’ve personally been able to interact with hundreds of users over the years and I’ve learned a lot from them. People have been pushing the boundaries; starting their own user groups (all over the world!) and building cool tools and add-ons for OpenClinica. The only downside is that I don’t think there has been enough visibility into what other people have been building – but why? Perhaps the right tools for sharing weren’t in place.
Github lets you fork, pull request and merge! Not only that, but you’ll get credit on your Github profile for pull requests that get merged. It’s like the social networking of code contributing. We really want to lower the barriers to solid contributions. In the past two months we’ve gotten five pull requests and two are in the process of being merged and will be in the next release (3.4). Of course, we’re really excited about this and look forward to more contributions. We really want this process to be simple, transparent and fun. Let us know what you think!
You can find us on Github here: https://github.com/OpenClinica/OpenClinica
And for more info on our road map, you can check here:
https://docs.openclinica.com/release-notes
Cheers!
Alicia