Open Humans is participating in the 2018 Global Sprint that’s organized by Mozilla on May 10th and 11th. The Global Sprint is a two-day collaborative hackathon that takes place around the globe - both at physical locations as well as remotely via the web.

We’re thrilled that you’re interested in contributing to the Open Humans ecosystem. As a platform that connects people and their data with researchers and projects that want to work with people and their data, Open Humans is pretty decentralized. As such there is not a single repository that you can contribute to, but rather a collection of repositories that you can contribute to.

Below you will find links to different projects that you can contribute to, along with some first overviews which skill sets are needed and our estimated level of difficulty. Our GitHub issues can be found in the OpenHumans/ohjh-example-notebooks, gedankenstuecke/twitter-analyser and gedankenstuecke/ftdna-upload repositories.

The best way to get in touch with us is by joining our slack. Drop by in our #globalsprint channel. We’re always excited to meet new people!

Ways to Contribute

• Personal Data Notebooks

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  Open Humans runs it’s own JupyterHub setup which allows people to explore their personal data in notebooks written in Python, R and Julia. We are looking for people to write more example notebooks and improve our documentation!

• Work on the Open Humans project 'TwArχiv'

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  TwArχiv is an Open Humans project that allows people to upload their full Twitter archive and analyses the user’s metadata to check how their Twitter behaviour changes over time and how geo-locations can be used to track their movement.

• Work on the Open Humans project 'Open Humans Healthkit Integration'

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  Open Humans Healthkit Integration is an Open Humans project that allows people to upload health and fitness data recorded on their iPhone or iPad.

• Work on the Open Humans project 'FamilyTreeDNA importer'

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  FamilyTreeDNA integration is an Open Humans project that allows people to upload their genetic test results generated by the company FamilyTreeDNA.