Building a community with "no exclusion, no exceptions"
We need volunteers!
We need as much help as we can get with all kind of skills
- C++ coders for Jazz server core development
- Front-end coders to create web and mobile Jazz applications
- UX experts at two levels: programming APIs and end-users
- Writers and reviewers for documentation, tutorials and articles
- Testers/evaluators/inventors to play with it, help fixing bugs and develop new ideas
- Communicators to spread the word
- Smart people to tell us what is missing in this list
Three Simple Rules
Note: Just drop us a message. We have not reached the size where we need filtering. We are very happy to hear
about you. Many procedures for generating things automatically exist, you may need to know that before you start.
Note: Nothing is carved in stone. Instead of thinking about some of our choices as a deal breaker, ask us, you
may convince us to change it.
Note: We will be more than happy to find people wanting to take responsibility for areas of the project. That
includes deciding what and how to do things.
Summarizing: contact us, contact us, contact us
and 
What is the vision?
The vision is building a platform to make advances in AI happen that are not straightforward using current
platforms.
- A short pitch why Jazz.
- Identifying improvement opportunities the motive.
- How Jazz fits these opportunities Jazz as a solution.
- Technically speaking, what is the vision here.
- The “Hello world!” of the Jazz community.
How do I make a contribution?
If it is a fix or simple feature to the Jazz repository and you know how to make a pull request. you can try that way. But still our favorite method is: contact us.
The Hard Parts of Open Source
Recommended video on OSS dynamics
Evan Czaplicki, the author of Elm, has already been tackling with OSS for seven years and gave this brilliant speech. We have not yet reached the point of maturity where the Elm community is today, but there are some wonderful lessons that make us recommend watching it attentively.
Just sketching a few ideas:
- Building Jazz is, in the best case, going to be a long process.
- Understanding OSS community dynamics and empathizing will help.
- There are beautiful solutions (see conversation flows at ‘41) to improve focus and constructive discussion.